Title

Astronaut Alan Shepard - Pressure Suit - Mercury-Redstone (MR)-3 flight

Caption

(5 May 1961) Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. is being helped into the lower half of his pressure suit for the Mercury-Redstone 3 (MR-3) flight, the first American manned spaceflight.

Credit line

Photo12/Universal Images Group/HUM Images

Reference

UMG22A32_489

Model release

No

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

18,6Mb (859,0Kb) / 7,2in x 10,0in / 2162 x 3000 (300dpi)

Keywords

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