A portrait of John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth, glancing out of porthole as he re-entered the atmosphere, taken by an automatic sequence motion picture camera onboard Friend 7 capsuleMercury-Atlas 6, 20 February 1962Vintage gelatin silver print on fibre-based paper, 25.5 x 20.7 cm (10 x 8 in), press photograph with numero press stamps, notes and marks on verso, including one from The Daily Telegraph dated 23 February 1962, printed press caption attached to the verso