Mercury (1958-1963) is the first American space project to send an American in space. Launched the 7th of October 1958, 6 days after the American spatial agency NASA officially opened, the program’s objectives were to send a human in space, to find a way to make it safely comeback on Earth and to study the effects of the absence of gravity on human body. The Mercury spacecraft was kept to a minimum, it allowed to carry only one person.
View of Tibetan Lake country from Space
S-63-6430 | May 16, 1963 | Blue Tab Number
Figure 14.14 – Extremely rare – Probably the first, human-taken (astronaut L. Gordon Cooper Jr), photograph taken of the tibetan lake country, from space.
Photo NASA, original photography
Vintage Chromogenic print on ‘A Kodak Paper’
25,4 x 20,32 cm / 10 x 8 inch
View of Tibetan Lake country from Space
S-63-6431 | May 16, 1963 | Blue Tab Number
Figure 14.15 – Extremely rare – Probably the first, human-taken (astronaut L. Gordon Cooper Jr), photograph taken of the tibetan lake country, from Space.
Photo NASA, original photography
Vintage Chromogenic print on ‘A Kodak Paper’
25,4 x 20,32 cm / 10 x 8 inch
Pacific Ocean off Southeast coast of Japan, from Space
S-63-6446 | May 16, 1963 | Blue Tab Number
Figure 14.16 – Extremely rare – Probably the first, human-taken (astronaut L. Gordon Cooper Jr), photograph taken of Pacific Ocean , from Space.
Photo NASA, original photography
Vintage Chromogenic print on ‘A Kodak Paper’
25,4 x 20,32 cm / 10 x 8 inch
Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan, from Space
S-63-6446 | May 16, 1963 | Blue Tab Number
Figure 14.17 – Extremely rare – Probably the first, human-taken (astronaut L. Gordon Cooper Jr), photograph of a northwest-looking view across Pakistan, eastern Iran and Afghanistan, from Space.
Photo NASA, original photography
Vintage Chromogenic print on ‘A Kodak Paper’
25,4 x 20,32 cm / 10 x 8 inch
Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan, from Space
S-63-6429 | May 16, 1963 | Blue Tab Number
Figure 14.18 – Extremely rare – Probably the first, human-taken (astronaut L. Gordon Cooper Jr), photograph of the eastern Himalayas, Tibet, China, India and Burma , from Space.
Photo NASA, original photography
Vintage Chromogenic print on ‘A Kodak Paper’
25,4 x 20,32 cm / 10 x 8 inch
First aerial view of the Indus River
S-63-6432 | May 16, 1963 | Blue Tab Number
Figure 14.19 – Extremely rare – Probably the first, human-taken (astronaut L. Gordon Cooper Jr), photograph of the Indus Valley River in Kashmir, from Space.
Photo NASA, original photography
Vintage Chromogenic print on ‘A Kodak Paper’
25,4 x 20,32 cm / 10 x 8 inch
First aerial view of western Tibet and Kashmir
S-63-6444 | May 16, 1963 | Blue Tab Number
Figure 14.20 – Extremely rare – Probably the first, human-taken (astronaut L. Gordon Cooper Jr), photograph of western Tibet and Kashmir near Headwaters of Indus, from Space.
Photo NASA, original photography
Vintage Chromogenic print on ‘A Kodak Paper’
25,4 x 20,32 cm / 10 x 8 inch
First aerial view of Lakes area of western Tibet.
S-63-6456 | May 16, 1963 | Blue Tab Number
Figure 14.21 – Extremely rare – Probably the first, human-taken (astronaut L. Gordon Cooper Jr), photograph of Lakes of western Tibet, from Space.
Photo NASA, original photography
Vintage Chromogenic print on ‘A Kodak Paper’
25,4 x 20,32 cm / 10 x 8 inch
First aerial view of Tibetan Plateau
S-63-6440 | May 16, 1963 | Blue Tab Number
Figure 14.22 – Extremely rare – Probably the first, human-taken (astronaut L. Gordon Cooper Jr), photograph of the Tibetan Plateau in north-central Tibet, from Space.
Photo NASA, original photography
Vintage Chromogenic print on ‘A Kodak Paper’
25,4 x 20,32 cm / 10 x 8 inch
First aerial view of ChengDu, Province of Sichuan.
S-63-6439 | May 16, 1963 | Blue Tab Number
Figure 14.23 – Extremely rare – Probably the first, human-taken (astronaut L. Gordon Cooper Jr), photograph of ChengDu in China, from Space.
Photo NASA, original photography
Vintage Chromogenic print on ‘A Kodak Paper’
25,4 x 20,32 cm / 10 x 8 inch
First aerial view of Changsha, Province of Hunan.
S-63-6439 | May 16, 1963 | Blue Tab Number
Figure 14.23 – Extremely rare – Probably the first, human-taken (astronaut L. Gordon Cooper Jr), photograph of Changsha in China, from Space.
Photo NASA, original photography
Vintage Chromogenic print on ‘A Kodak Paper’
25,4 x 20,32 cm / 10 x 8 inch
First aerial view of Taiwan, Straight of Formosa and the Pacific Ocean in the background.
S-63-6437 | May 16, 1963 | Blue Tab Number
Figure 14.25 – Extremely rare – Probably the first, human-taken (astronaut L. Gordon Cooper Jr), photograph of Taiwan, from Space.
Photo NASA, original photography
Vintage Chromogenic print on ‘A Kodak Paper’
25,4 x 20,32 cm / 10 x 8 inch
