Alan B. Shepard, Jr.
Mission: Mercury-Redstone 3, Freedom 7: Alan B. Shepard, Jr., the first American in space

Mission: Mercury-Redstone 3, Freedom 7: Alan B. Shepard, Jr., the first American in space

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Mission: Mercury-Redstone 3, Freedom 7: Alan B. Shepard, Jr., the first American in space
PrinterAmerican, born 1953
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Mission: Mercury-Redstone 3, Freedom 7: Alan B. Shepard, Jr., the first American in space
  • from the portfolio NASA: A Quarter Century of Space Exploration
DateMay 5, 1961, printed 1991
PlaceUnited States
MediumDye imbibition print
Dimensionsimage: 16 × 16 inches (40.6 × 40.6 cm)
mat: 20 × 20 inches (50.8 × 50.8 cm)

Credit LineThe Target Collection of American Photography, museum purchase funded by Target Stores
Object number93.199.1
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Provenance[Robert Mann Gallery, New York]; purchased by MFAH, 1993.
Exhibition HistoryExhibited in "Quest for the Moon and Other Stories: Four Decades of Astronauts in Space," at the Shell and the American Landscape Museum, Houston, TX, March 6, 2001 to May 29, 2001 (LN:2001.23).
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscription: Inscribed in black ink, lower left corner below image: "29/1000", lower right corner below image: "# 1"

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