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Complete Mercury Astronauts checklist, SEDR 109-CL, 5.25 x 7, dated June 15, 1960, 11 double-sided pages, and bound by its original three rings in the

Results of the Project Mercury Ballistic and Orbital Chimpanzee Flights booklet, NASA publication SP-39, 1963, 8 x 10.25, 71 pages, containing numerou

Project Mercury Recovery cover with a stamped cachet honoring the USS Kearsarge CVS-33 Recovery Team, signed by Cooper in blue ballpoint. Two light ba

Cooper’s B-26-B,-C Pilot’s Amplified Check List, 4.5 x 7.5, bound by two staples at the top and dated “(Revised 22 July 1953).” A nine card check list

Flown piece of parachute cord from Cooper’s MA-9 flight in 1963. Nylon section measures approximately 1? long and is originally from a 10-foot length

Twenty-day Cape Canaveral Missile Test Area temporary vehicle permit, issued to John Glenn for his 1962 Thunderbird, signed “J. H. Glenn, Jr.,” one pa

Original color oil painting by David K. Stone on a 26 x 23 masonite board, featuring a portrait of Glenn in front of the Friendship 7 capsule, signed

Signed book: John Glenn: A Memoir. First edition, first printing. NY: Bantam Books, 1999. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.5 x 9.5, 422 pages. Signed on

Commemorative cover with an attractive cachet honoring Project Mercury, signed in blue ink by Glenn. In very fine condition.

Certificate from the Mercury Monument dedication, held on November 10, 1964, 9.5 x 12.5, with a raised relief of the Mercury Seven astronauts and a pr

Vehicle permit, signed “Virgil I. Grissom,” one page both sides, 5 x 3, July 16, 1961. Cape Canaveral Missile Test Area temporary vehicle permit, fill

TLS signed “Virgil I. Grissom,” one page, 8 x 10.5, NASA Space Task Group letterhead, August 29, 1961. Letter to an admirer. In full: “Thank you for y

Sixteen different commemorative covers, all with cachets honoring the Mercury astronauts or other events relating to the program, including one honori

Unsigned book: Results of the Third United States Manned Orbital Space Flight. Washington, DC: NASA, 1962. Hardcover, 8.25 x 10.5, 120 pages. Rare NAS

Unsigned book: Project Mercury: A Chronology by James M. Grimwood. Washington, DC: NASA, 1963. Hardcover, 8.5 x 10.5, 238 pages. Rare NASA publication

Unsigned book: Results of the First United States Manned Suborbital Space Flight. Washington, DC: NASA, 1961. Hardcover, 8.25 x 10.5, 76 pages. Rare N

Unsigned book: Results of the Second United States Manned Orbital Space Flight. Washington, DC: NASA, 1962. Hardcover, 8.25 x 10.5, 107 pages. Rare NA

Unsigned book: This New Ocean: A History of Project Mercury. Washington, DC: NASA, 1966. Hardcover, 7 x 10, 681 pages. NASA publication SP-4201 featur

Collection of six Sarzin folders from the Mercury missions, all 9.5 x 6.5, each bearing photos and information about the respective mission, a launch

Three blocks of stamps: one block of 15 4-cent stamps, 5.75 x 5.25, honoring Project Mercury; one block of 10 4-cent stamps, 3.25 x 5.25, honoring Pro