Dean Conger Five sequential views of the recovery of Alan Shepard, the first American in space 5 May 1961 Four vintage gelatin silver prints on fibre-based paper, 25.3 x 20.5 cm (10 x 7in), with NASA captions on verso, and one gelatin silver print on resin-coated paper, 25.3 x 19 cm (10 x 7½ in), with THIS PAPER MANUFACTURED BY KODAK watermarks and NASA caption (with the "worm" logo) on the verso Provenance: from Tim Furniss collection Footnotes: 'Aglow with success, Alan Shepard crosses the deck of the carrier USS Lake Champlain after splashing down near Bermuda. Shepard's 15-minute suborbital flight, made in the Mercury spacecraft behind him, helped convince John Kennedy to aim for the moon' Illustrated: Chaikin, A Man on the Moon, I, p.18
Dean Conger Five sequential views of the recovery of Alan Shepard, the first American in space 5 May 1961 Four vintage gelatin silver prints on fibre-based paper, 25.3 x 20.5 cm (10 x 7in), with NASA captions on verso, and one gelatin silver print on resin-coated paper, 25.3 x 19 cm (10 x 7½ in), with THIS PAPER MANUFACTURED BY KODAK watermarks and NASA caption (with the "worm" logo) on the verso Provenance: from Tim Furniss collection Footnotes: 'Aglow with success, Alan Shepard crosses the deck of the carrier USS Lake Champlain after splashing down near Bermuda. Shepard's 15-minute suborbital flight, made in the Mercury spacecraft behind him, helped convince John Kennedy to aim for the moon' Illustrated: Chaikin, A Man on the Moon, I, p.18
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