The Frances Young Tang
Teaching Museum and Art Gallery
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Saratoga Springs, NY 12866
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Collection Artwork
Artist
NASA (Washington DC, established 1958)
Title
MA-6 Practice Suit-Up View
Creation date
February 5, 1962, printed by 1972
Materials
gelatin silver print on Kodak paper
Person depicted
Joseph Schmitt (O'Fallon, Illinois, 1916 – 2017, Friendswood, Texas)
Person depicted
John Glenn Jr. (Cambridge, Ohio, 1921 – 2016, Columbus, Ohio)
Dimensions
paper size: 10 x 8 in.
image size: 9 7/8 x 7 in.
Credit Line
The Jack Shear Collection of Photography at the Tang Teaching Museum
Place of Creation
photographed as part of the Mercury Atlas 6 mission, Cape Canaveral, Florida, United States, North America
Accession Number
2020.31.97.106
NASA ID
S62-246
Object Type
Photographs
Marks
Inscribed, paper verso, upper left: S62-00246

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Research on our collection is ongoing. If you have resources you’d like to share, please contact Associate Curator Rebecca McNamara.
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