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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

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

Flight-flown Masonic flag, carried on board Faith 7 by astronaut and Freemason Gordon Cooper during his spaceflight on May 15–16, 1963. Blue flag meas

Huge color 51 x 34 map entitled “Official Record of the First United States Manned Orbital Flight,” issued by Rand McNally Cosmopolitan World, with “S

Color cardstock 8 x 10 NASA photo of the seven Mercury astronauts standing in front of an F-102 aircraft, signed in ink by six: Scott Carpenter, Gordo

An original and complete special edition of Muskingum County’s Times Recorder, 11.75 x 17, 40 pages, published in honor Glenn’s Mercury mission, “a Sp

Bound operations manual titled “Project Mercury Spacecraft 16 Flight Operations Manual,” contract NAS 5-59, basic date August 1, 1962, and revision da

Handsome print, 8 x 10, of Shepard in his Mercury flight suit in front of the NASA emblem, boldly signed in pencil. In fine condition.

North American Aviation, Inc., Space and Information Systems Division Final Report on the Paraglider Development Program Phase 1, previously stamped “

Uncommon vintage NASA press kit for the MA-7 mission, 8.5 x 11, double-sided pages, signed on the front cover in black ballpoint, “Scott Carpenter, Au

Color 17.75 x 30.5 poster entitled ‘First American in Space,’ signed and inscribed in silver ink “To Scott, Personal Regards—Alan Shepard.” Scattered