062 Back Side of Photograph Spectators at Mercury Launch, 1961

Creator

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

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Identifier

F11_002_02

Date

July 1961

Description

This black and white text is located on the backside of the prior image. This description describes the image and context of the imagery.

Physical Description

black and white photograph

Keywords

Project Mercury (U.S.), Space flight, United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Press releases, Space vehicles, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (Fla.), Rockets (Aeronautics)--Launching, Spectators

Rights

This material is free from copyright under Sections 101 and 105 of the United States Copyright Act.

Publisher

Digitized by Forsyth Digital Collections

Repository

Cosmosphere International SciEd Center

Comments

For questions contact ScholarsRepository@fhsu.edu

Recommended Citation

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), "062 Back Side of Photograph Spectators at Mercury Launch, 1961" (1961). Project Mercury Images. 62.
https://scholars.fhsu.edu/mercury/62

Language

eng

Transcription

61-MR4-92 NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration For immediate release July 22, 1961. Thousands of spectators on Cocoa Beach, Fla. Watch the second U.S. man launched into space. Virgil I. Grissom aboard the Liberty Bell 7 boosted by a Redstone was launched at 7:20 A.M., EST from Cape Canaveral, Fla. (NASA Photo)