One Giant Leap for Mankind: Vintage Photographs from the Victor Martin-Malburet Collection 
28 October 2022
One Giant Leap for Mankind: Vintage Photographs from the Victor Martin-Malburet Collection 
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Portrait of Mercury Original Seven Scott Carpenter, the second American in orbit, NASA [Mercury Atlas 7], 29 November 1961

printed 1961
vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper 10 h × 8 w in (25 × 20 cm)
estimate: $800–1,200
result: $438
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A very fine portrait of space pioneer Scott Carpenter during flight simulations at Langley Air Force Base as he trains as back-up pilot for the first US manned orbital flight Mercury Atlas 6.
NASA Patrick AFB caption to verso.

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A very fine portrait of space pioneer Scott Carpenter during flight simulations at Langley Air force Base as he trains as back-up pilot for the first US manned orbital flight Mercury Atlas 6. 

Carpenter eventually flew on Mercury Atlas 7, the second orbital flight of an American rocket with a human on board. The pilot was originally planned to be Donald Slayton but was changed to be Scott Carpenter after a medical examination of Slayton revealed an irregularity in his heartbeat. 

The Aurora 7 spacecraft mated to an Atlas rocket was launched from Pad 14, Cape Canaveral, at 07:45:00 a.m. EST on May 24, 1962.

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