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[Mercury Seven]

The Rarest Astronaut-Signed Mercury Group Portrait

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[MERCURY SEVEN]

Dean Conger, Vintage Chromogenic Color Photograph, 8¼ x 18 inches, Washington, National Geographic Society, January 1960, being a group portrait of the Mercury Seven astronauts, framed. 

 

SIGNED BY ALL 7 MERCURY ASTRONAUTS ON THE MAT, BELOW THE IMAGE: “John H. Glenn Jr.,” “Donald K. Slayton,” “M. Scott Carpenter,” “Virgil I. Grissom,” “Walter Schirra, Jr.,” “Alan B. Shepard Jr.,” and “Leroy S. Cooper, Jr.” 

This striking portrait of the Mercury Seven astronauts was taken by award-winning photographer Dean Conger, who had also captured other key moments of the Mercury Program as staff photographer for the National Geographic Society. The astronauts display maximum swager during this January 1960 photo shoot at the Space Task Group offices at Langley. Certainly, the most dramatic group portrait of the Mercury Program and, based on auction records, the rarest.