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Apollo 1 (Grissom, White, Chafee) Signed Photos

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:1,450.00 USD Estimated At:3,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD
Apollo 1 (Grissom, White, Chafee) Signed Photos
<B>Apollo 1 (Grissom, White, Chaffee) Individual Color Photos Signed</B></I> by all three victims of the tragic training exercise fire on January 27, 1967. Commander <B>Virgil I. Grissom</B></I> <B>(1926-1967)</B></I> is posed in a business suit next to a rocket model and has signed, "<I>Best wishes to Buzzy/ Gus Grissom</B></I>". Senior Pilot <B>Edward H. White II</B></I> <B>(1930-1967)</B></I> is in his spacesuit posed next to a rocket model and has signed, "<I>To Buzzy/ Get Well Soon/ Edward H White II</B></I>". Pilot <B>Roger B. Chaffee</B></I> <B>(1935-1967)</B></I> is posed in a business suit and has signed, "<I>To 'Buzzy'/ Best wishes and get/ well soon/ Roger B Chaffee</B></I>". All three photos are 8" x 10" NASA-issued lithographs. Also included in this lot are six additional unsigned NASA photos from the Gemini 3 and Gemini 4 missions, several of which show Ed White in the first-ever space walk by an American astronaut. <I>From the Byron "Buzzy" George Collection.</B></I><BR><BR><b>Shipping:</b> Flat Material, Small (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.heritageauctions.com/common/shipping.php">view shipping information</a>)
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