Dean Conger Five sequential views of the recovery of Alan Shepard, the first American in space5 May 1961Four vintage gelatin silver prints on fibre-based paper, 25.3 x 20.5 cm (10 x 7in), with NASA captions on verso, and one gelatin silver print on resin-coated paper, 25.3 x 19 cm (10 x 7½ in), with THIS PAPER MANUFACTURED BY KODAK watermarks and NASA caption (with the worm logo) on the verso Provenance: from Tim Furniss collectionFootnotes:Aglow with success, Alan Shepard crosses the deck of the carrier S Lake Champlain after splashing down near Bermuda. Shepard's 15-minute suborbital flight, made in the Mercury spacecraft behind him, helped convince John Kennedy to aim for the moon Illtrated: Chaikin, A Man on the Moon, I, p.18