RR Auction: Space & Aviation Auction

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