NASA Lot n° 13

NASA. The famous photograph of the "Early Sevens". This photograph shows the first group of astronauts presented by NASA in July 1962. They had been selected in 1959 for the MERCURY program. On top, from left to right, Alan B. Shepard Jr, Virgil I. Grissom and L. Gordon Cooper Jr. Bottom left to right, Walter N. Schirra Jr., Donald K. Slayton, John H. Glenn Jr. and H. Scott Carpenter. 1976 chromogenic print on paper: "THIS PAPER MANUFACTURED BY KODAK. NASA logo and numbering on the front. NASA logo and typed caption on the back. 25.3 x 20.4cm with margins.