Vintage color glossy 11 x 13.75 photo of NASA’s Astronaut Group 2, also referred to as ‘The New Nine,’ proudly posing with a large model of the Gemini capsule, affixed to its original 15.5 x 16 mount, signed on the mount adjacent to their respective images in black ink, “Neil Armstrong,” “Edward H. White II,” “Elliot See,” “James Lovell,” “James A. McDivitt,” “Charles Conrad, Jr.,” “Thomas P. Stafford,” “John Young,” and “Frank Borman.” In very good condition, with a central horizontal crease through image and mount (not affecting any of the signatures but passing through the heads of Lovell, McDivitt, and Conrad), top right corner of photo separating from mount, a few other light creases and surface marks. Selected in 1962, the Group 2 appointments expanded the number of astronauts from 7 to 16 as NASA moved on to Projects Gemini and Apollo. With the exception of See, each pictured astronaut flew in the Gemini mission; See was killed in a crash on February 28, 1966, while flying a T-38 jet trainer to the McDonnell Aircraft plant for inspection. His copilot, Charles Bassett, was also killed; both men were slated as the original Gemini 9 crew. Ed White, who is pictured immediately above See, tragically perished in the Apollo 1 fire less than two years after his Gemini 4 mission. Consignor notes that the photo originates from the family collection of Ed White.
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