Associated Press Faith 7 Mated to Atlas Booster

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GLC#
GLC09677.74-View header record
Type
Images
Date
April 23, 1963
Author/Creator
Associated Press
Title
Faith 7 Mated to Atlas Booster
Place Written
Cape Canaveral, Florida
Pagination
1 photograph Height: 25.2 cm, Width: 20.5 cm
Primary time period
1945 to the Present
Sub-Era
The Sixties

One photograph by Associated Press April 23, 1963. Shows a capsule being lowered off a platform. According to the embedded press release the capsule is named Faith 7 by the astronaut L. Gordon Cooper who will participate in a twenty two orbit mission set to take off mid-May 1963. The back of the photo is stamped with Associated Press information. The year of the photo was determined by the date of the mission mentioned in the embedded press release. The back of the photo is stamped with Associated Press information.

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