RR Auction: Space & Aviation Auction

Extraordinary official vintage glossy 8 x 10 NASA photo of Mercury astronauts John Glenn, Gus Grissom, and Alan Shepard, signed in blue ballpoint, “Vi

Signed book: The Astronauts. Later printing. NY: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1960. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.5 x 8.25, 192 pages. Signed on the half...

DS, signed “M. Scott Carpenter,” “Leroy G. Cooper, Jr.,” “Virgil I. Grissom,” “Walter M. Schirra, Jr.,” “Alan B. Shepard, Jr.,” and “D. K. Slayton,” f

Rare ALS signed “Virgil,” one page both sides, 8 x 10, Project Mercury letterhead, January 8, 1961. Letter to his brother and sister-in-law, “Lowell...

DS, signed twice in pencil, “Virgil I. Grissom,” one page both sides, 8 x 5.25, December 6, [1962]. Part two of Air Force AFTO form 781, an “Aircraft

Mercury-Atlas 7 launch day cover with a stamped cachet honoring the second man in orbit, signed vertically in ink by six of the original astronauts, “

Desirable commemorative launch day cover with a Goldeycraft cachet honoring the path of Shepard’s historic flight aboard the Freedom 7, postmarked May

Color limited edition 21 x 29.25 lithograph of R. L. Rasmussen’s watercolor of a Mercury rocket entitled ‘Space…The Pioneers,’ numbered 16/300, signed

Kranz’s cardstock NASA M/A-7 Operations badge bearing an image of the capsule, 2 x 3, filled out in type, “Kranz, G., NASA.” Reverse is serial numbere

Deke Slayton’s personally-owned and -used Type MB-1 army green clothing bag. Issued in the late 1950s and early 1960s to pilots for carrying personal