First Steps
Artist: Mitchell Jamieson, 1963
Media: Acrylic, gauze, and paper on canvas
Description: In a silver-colored spacesuit, astronaut Gordon Cooper steps away from his Mercury spacecraft and into the bright sunlight on the deck of the recovery ship after 22 orbits of Earth. Mitchell Jamieson documented Cooper's recovery and medical examination and accompanied him back to Cape Canaveral.
Image Credit: Mitchell Jamieson
All rights reserved
Courtesy: National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution
First Steps
Artist: Mitchell Jamieson, 1963
Media: Acrylic, gauze, and paper on canvas
Description: In a silver-colored spacesuit, astronaut Gordon Cooper steps away from his Mercury spacecraft and into the bright sunlight on the deck of the recovery ship after 22 orbits of Earth. Mitchell Jamieson documented Cooper's recovery and medical examination and accompanied him back to Cape Canaveral.
Image Credit: Mitchell Jamieson
All rights reserved
Courtesy: National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution