RR Auction: Space & Aviation Auction

Vintage postcard, 5.5 x 3.5, of the Hindenburg over Lakehurst, New Jersey, in 1936. Reverse is addressed to a woman, and features a German postmark fo

Vintage 5.5 x 3.5 postcard photo of the Hindenburg on the ground in Frankfurt, with observers in the foreground, and a larger crown in the background.

An on board Hindenburg bill, 4.5 x 9.5, completed in pencil for a total purchase of $69.85. Three horizontal folds, and some scattered light creasing

Color Hindenburg baggage tag, 4 x 6, with an image of the Hindenburg flying over the water, with a large sailboat below, and personal information adde

A United States government postcard, 5.5 x 3.25, with an ALS, in German, signed “Your loving nephew Edmund,” stamp-dated May 7, 1936, to his aunt and

Rare passenger identification card, 4 x 3, for admission to a bus and gangway for the Hindenburg, stamp-dated May 20, 1936. Identification card is sea

Scarce maiden voyage passenger list from the Hindenburg’s first eastward crossing from Lakehurst, New Jersey to Frankfurt on Main, Germany, on May 11,

An unused sheet of embossed stationery, 8.25 x 11.5, engraved at the top, “Luftschiff Hindenburg An Bord,” [On board Airship Hindenburg] and a red Ger

Flown fragment of skin from the Graf Zeppelin LZ 127 airship. Fragment measures approximately 1.75 x 1.75 and is matted with an original postcard phot

Unusual aviator pilot doll, circa post World War I to 1920s. Doll measures approximately 15? high, with solid head and hands, as well as articulating

Restricted training manual entitled “The B-29, Airplane Commander Training Manual for the Superfortress,” 8 x 10.5, 177 pages, bound by three holes pu

An interesting archive of reproduction wartime photos of American ace Thomas B. McGuire. Archive includes eight satin-finish 11 x 14 and 14 x 11 photo

Original 1946 edition manual for the Navy Training Course in Aircraft Turrets, 5.25 x 7.75, 240 pages, printed by the Government Printing Office in 19

Original US Air Force K-1 flight helmet. High altitude pressurized flight helmet has a thin gray separate fiberglass outer shell with a detachable inn

TLS, one page, 8 x 10.5, NASA letterhead, June 30, 1966. Letter to Daniel E. Dupree, Dean of the School of Pure and Applied Sciences at Northeast Loui

Member of Wernher von Braun’s rocket team (1915–1996). Three pages of handwritten notes and schematics by Hosenthien: a detailed schematic, in pencil,

Collection of three artifacts used during the launch of Explorer I on January 31, 1958. A small cross-cut section of umbilical cable; a piece of cover

Russian physicist (1857–1935) who pioneered the study of rocketry and cosmonautics and whose discoveries were of crucial importance in the development

Flown fragment from a captured German V-2 rocket that was test fired in 1946 at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. Fragment measures approxi

Russian cosmonaut, a veteran of three extended missions aboard Mir and the International Space Station, who has also performed eight spacewalks. Cosmo