[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
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Oklahoma Historical Society