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Camera, Ansco, 35mm, Glenn, Friendship 7
Ansco
With this camera, an Ansco Autoset model, astronaut John H. Glenn, Jr., took the first human-captured, color still photographs of the Earth during his three-orbit mission on February 20, 1962. Glenn's pictures paved the way for future Earth photography experiments on American human spaceflight missions.
- Type
- EQUIPMENT-Photographic
- Medium
- Metal, glass, quartz, plastic, velcro, paint
- Department
- NASM
- Institution
- National Air and Space Museum
- Object number
- nasm_A19670198000
- Credit
- Transferred from National Aeronautics and Space Administration