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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Mercury astronauts John Glenn, left, and Scott Carpenter pose during a luncheon Feb. 17, 2012, ce

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Mercury astronauts John Glenn, left, and Scott Carpenter pose during a luncheon Feb. 17, 2012, celebrating 50 years of Americans in orbit, an era which began with Glenn s Mercury mission MA-6, on Feb. 20, 1962. Glenn s launch aboard an Atlas rocket took with it the hopes of an entire nation and ushered in a new era of space travel that eventually led to Americans walking on the moon by the end of the 1960s. Glenn soon was followed into orbit by Scott Carpenter, Walter Schirra and Gordon Cooper. Their fellow Mercury astronauts Alan Shepard and Virgil Gus Grissom flew earlier suborbital flights. Deke Slayton, a member of NASA s original Mercury 7 astronauts, was grounded by a medical condition until the Apollo-Soyuz T Copyright: xpiemagsx piemagsspace-99335 ACHTUNG AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT

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IMAGO/piemags

Date

01 janv. 1900

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Photo12/Imago

Notre référence

MGO25A04_068

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Non

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Droits gérés

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17,2Mo (563,4Ko) / 25,4cm x 16,9cm / 3000 x 2000 (300dpi)

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