The Mercury Spacecraft Signed Print.

CARPENTER, Scott; Gordon Cooper; Wally Schirra.

Item Number: 141031

Rare color print of the historic Mercury Spacecraft; signed by three of the Mercury Seven. One page, the color satin print of the spacecraft is signed, “Scott Carpenter, Aurora 7, 5/62,” “Wally Schirra, Sigma 7, 10/62,” and “The Mercury Spacecraft, Gordon Cooper, Faith 7, 5/63.” In fine condition.

"The first seven American astronauts were an admirable group of individuals chosen to sit at the apex of a pyramid of human effort… They chose to lead by following the opportunity that chance, circumstance, technology and history had prepared for them" (Swenson, Grimwood & Alexander). NASA introduced the seven astronauts in Washington on April 9, 1959. Although the agency viewed Project Mercury's purpose as an experiment to determine whether humans could survive space travel, the seven men immediately became national heroes and were compared by TIME magazine to "Columbus, Magellan, Daniel Boone, and the Wright brothers" (TIME 1959).