![[Project Mercury] — Mercury Seven. Vintage photograph of the Mercury 7, signed by all seven](https://dam.sothebys.com/dam/image/lot/6d2ef39a-ff62-48a1-ad00-855b921da281/primary/extra_small)
![View full screen - View 1 of Lot 9. [Project Mercury] — Mercury Seven. Vintage photograph of the Mercury 7, signed by all seven.](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/1f3265f/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1667x1367+0+0/resize/385x316!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2F80%2Ffe%2F16b089a2478bb878cbc8784d3ab3%2F157n10599-bndmh.jpg)
[Project Mercury] — Mercury Seven. Vintage photograph of the Mercury 7, signed by all seven
Lot Closed
July 20, 06:10 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
[Project Mercury]
The Original Seven Signed by All Seven
Vintage silver gelatin print, 8 x 10 in., SIGNED by all seven MERCURY astronauts:
Top right: "To Jim Havel with / very best wishes from the / Mercury Astronauts"
Across bottom: "Alan B. Shepard ; Walter W. Schirra ; John H. Glenn, Jr. / Virgil I. Grissom ; M. Scott Carpenter ; Donald K. Slayton ; Leroy G. Cooper, Jr."
A publicity image of the "Original Seven" handling a rocket model. Project Mercury's goal was to put a human into Earth orbit, and was the U.S.'s first human spaceflight program, running 1958-1963.