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[Photograph 2012.201.B1098.0153]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Like a giant arrow, the escape tower juts out from the Project Mercury space capsule on display Tuesday in the 200 block of W Main. The craft identical with one in which Col. John H. Glenn Jr. made his historic orbital flight Febuaray 20, was to leqve for Tulsa late Tuesday after a two day stay in Oklahoma City."
Date: July 3, 1962
Creator: Traverse, Austin
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1098.0152]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Scale model of Project Mercury space capsule, "Friendship 7," inspeced by Roland Rodman, president of the Frontiers of Science Foundation."
Date: May 17, 1962
Creator: Cobb, Dick
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1098.0203]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "FIRST LOOK at the real thing is avaliable to Oklahoma Cityans with this spacecraft exhibit,shown being raised to position in the 200 block W Main."
Date: 1962
Creator: Traverse, Austin
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1098.0170]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Heralding flight by atronaut was Capitol Hill Baptist Church, where this sign was put up as soon as Lt. Col. John Glenn was orbited. Staff members explained that the intent of the big sign, put up by youth director Frank Minton, was to show that Glenn's orbital adventure would have been impossible without God's laws of nature governing space and the atmosphere."
Date: February 20, 1962
Creator: Matheson, Mandell
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1098.0178]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Remarkable view of the curvature of the earth was made by astronaut John Glenn Jr., with a hand held camera. His capsule was zooming 17,000 mph at the time. The pciture from a color negative film shows scattered cloud cover over an unidentified area."
Date: February 21, 1962
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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