Auction Date:2010 May 12 @ 10:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
One-of-a-kind striking blue naugahyde radio rack cover, 20 x 32, used aboard the United States Coast Guard Air Station helicopter HH52A 1466 on August 13, 1969, as it ferried Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins around Chicago before a ticker-tape parade in their honor. The cover bears a Chicago Air Station patch at the top and snap fasteners along the vertical edges. Beautifully and gigantically signed in black felt tip, “Neil Armstrong,” “Buzz Aldrin,” and “Michael Collins.” In fine condition.
Accompanied by a letter of provenance from the original recipient of the signed rack cover, Russell Yeats, describing the background of the signatures. Letter reads, in part: “USCG Air Station Chicago was asked to fly the astronauts…around Chicago for a parade in there [sic] honor. The helo HH52A 1466 was assigned and to be outfitted in blue seats-rug-and etc. Ens Millquist and ASM 1 Yeaton were assigned the job…A request was asked if the astronauts would sign where they sat plus the radio rack cover. Things were signed and radio rack cover was giving [sic] to ASM 1 Yeaton by pilot and XO of Air Station Chicago.” Also accompanied by copies of two photos from the day of the event: one of Yeats, Millquist, and the helicopter’s crew posing in front of the actual helicopter with the seats and rack cover; the other with Yeats and Millquist posing in front of the helicopter with the signed seats and rack cover. The signed seat cover is on display at the USCG Air Station in Chicago.
The Windy City was just one of the stops on the Apollo crew’s celebratory homecoming, on their first day out of quarantine. Throngs of Chicagoans turned out for a ticker-tape parade that wound down Michigan Avenue onto State Street and into the Loop, with each soul hoping for a glimpse of the trio of men who just three weeks earlier had made history. An unbelievably unique piece of space history obtained by one of the men who accompanied the Apollo astronauts on that summer day. Pre-certified Scott Cornish and RRAuction COA.
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