Category: The Black Star Collection
Government agency: NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION (NASA)
Photographer: UNKNOWN
Event Date: 1962
Medium: COLOR
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.237212

Inscriptions:
Recto, typed: NASA / S-62-8399; Verso, stamped: Please, do not alter / mark, or airbrush this / print. / Prints must be returned / after use. / Black Star, Library; typed: 10//3//62 / S-62-8391 / Recovery MA-8. U.S Navy scuba divers attaching / collar to Astronaut Walter N. Schirra’s spacecraft during / MA-8 recovery / OFFICIAL NASA PHOTOGRAPH / The National Aeronautics and Space Administration / has no objection to the publication of this photograph. / Its use in commercial advertising must be approved / along with copy and layout, by the Public Affairs Officer, / National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Manned / Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas; stamped: [star shape] / Credit: / from BLACK STAR

Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: AVIATION / SPACE SPLASH-DOWNS
Retouching: N