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Gordon Cooper’s personally owned and worn Mercury capsule-shaped cuff links and matching tie bar. The cuff links measure approximately .75-inch tall a

Famous, or infamous, broken hatch bolt from John Glenn’s Friendship 7 mission. This partial bolt and platenut were used to seal the hatch of the capsu

Connector and electrical cord, approximately 18? in length, from the unsuccessful Mercury-Redstone 1 mission. These connectors were used to connect th

DS, one page, 8 x 10.5, no date [circa 1962]. A petition signed in ink by fifteen Group 1 and Group 2 astronauts requesting Robert Goddard be honored

Liberty Bell 7 launch cover with a cachet honoring the Project Mercury program, bearing a July 21, 1961, Patrick Air Force Base cancellation, signed u

Postal cover, postmarked July 17, 1962, signed on the front in black felt tip by Wally Schirra, Scott Carpenter, and Gordon Cooper, in blue ballpoint

Flight-flown small silver piece of battery fragment from Carpenter’s Mercury mission. Fragment is encased in a 1.5 x 1.5 block of Lucite with a small

Seven hand-painted lead figurines depicting the original Mercury 7 astronauts in their spacesuits, two of them holding their helmets, each 2.5? high,

Oval steel ID plate, approximately 1.5? wide, one side stamped, “Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr., T. 9/41, USN,” the other side embossed with Shepard’s thum

Mission booklet entitled “The Earth-Orbiting Flight of Astronaut Carpenter,” 10.25 x 7.5, signed on the front cover in blue felt tip, “M. Scott Carpen