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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Mercury astronaut Scott Carpenter sits in front of the plot board from the Mercury control cente

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Mercury astronaut Scott Carpenter sits in front of the plot board from the Mercury control center on display at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. The astronaut, part of the original class of seven astronauts chosen by NASA, was taking part in a question-and-answer session with the media as part of events celebrating 50 years of Americans in orbit, an era which began with John 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 Carpenter, Walter Schirra and Gordon Coope Copyright: xpiemagsx piemagsspace-99344 ACHTUNG AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT

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IMAGO/piemags

Date

01 janv. 1900

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Photo12/Imago

Notre référence

MGO25A04_069

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Non

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Droits gérés

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17,1Mo (509,4Ko) / 25,4cm x 16,8cm / 3000 x 1990 (300dpi)

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