Lava arch.
Date: ca. 1900
Place: Hengill (Iceland)
Entrance to California Building (Panama-California Exposition)
Book Title: Panama-California Exposition, San Diego, 1915, portfolio (38 gelatin silver prints)
Artist: Francis Bruguiere
Artist Bio: American, 1879 - 1945
Friendship 7
Description: On Feb. 20, 1962 at 9:47 am EST, John Glenn launched from Cape Canaveral’s Launch Complex 14 to become the first American to orbit the Earth. In this image, Glenn enters his Friendship 7 capsule with assistance from technicians to begin his historic flight. Glenn rejoined NASA in 1998 as a member of the STS-95 Discovery crew. This 9-day mission, from Oct. 29-Nov. 7, supported a variety of research payloads including deployment of the Hubble Space Telescope Orbital Systems Test Platform and investigations on space flight and the aging process. Image Credit: NASA
