Retro Space Images: Mercury 7’s Aurora

Photo of Chrysler artist Cece Bibby talking with Mercury astronaut Scott Carpenter. Photo Credit: NASA
Photo of Chrysler artist Cece Bibby talking with Mercury astronaut Scott Carpenter. Photo Credit: NASA

Mercury-Atlas 7 astronaut Scott Carpenter chats with Chrysler graphic artist Cece Bibby in the white room at Pad 14 in May 1962.  Bibby was putting the finishing touches on the Aurora 7 artwork painted on the side of Carpenter’s spacecraft.

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