The Frances Young Tang
Teaching Museum and Art Gallery
at Skidmore College
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Collection Artwork
Artist
NASA (Washington DC, established 1958)
Title
MR-3 Pilot, Astronaut Alan B. Shepard, Jr., in Mercury Pressure Suit
Creation date
May 5, 1961
Materials
color photograph
Person depicted
Alan Shepard Jr. (East Derry, New Hampshire, 1923 – 1998, Pebble Beach, Del Monte Forest, California)
Dimensions
image size: 9 5/8 x 7 5/8 in.
paper size: 10 1/2 x 8 in.
Credit Line
The Jack Shear Collection of Photography at the Tang Teaching Museum
Place of Creation
photographed in Cape Canaveral, Florida, United States, North America
Accession Number
2020.31.97.195
NASA ID
S63-2082
Object Type
Photographs

Ongoing Research

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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