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Photograph, Project Mercury Astronauts
Object Details
- Description
- Gus Grissom, Alan Shepard, and John Glenn were three of the astronauts involved in the United States' first man-in-space program to successfully orbit a manned spacecraft around the earth.
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- date made
- 1961
- ID Number
- PG.67.102.051
- catalog number
- 67.102.51
- accession number
- 270571
- maker
- Avedon, Richard
- Object Name
- photograph
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 71 cm x 71 cm; 27 15/16 in x 27 15/16 in
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- Work and Industry: Photographic History
- Richard Avedon Collection
- Photography
- Subject
- Space Travel
- Record ID
- nmah_1321561
- Usage
- CC0
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