RR Auction: Space & Aviation

Magnificent color 34 x 16.5 lithograph by Ernest Montaut entitled ‘Wright au Camp d’Auvours,’ printed in Paris circa 1908, soaring over the Camp d’Auv

Impressive color 29 x 19.5 lithograph by W. d’Ertahial entitled ‘Le ‘Wright’ a Pau,’ published in Paris circa 1909, showing Wilbur Wright making one o

Color 22 x 14.5 lithograph entitled ‘Pour la Conquête de l'air. For the Conquest of the Air,’ published in Paris by L. Monroqc, circa 1908,...

Excessively rare 5.5 x 3.5 postcard with a small swatch of wing fabric from the 1900 Wright Glider affixed to the reverse, as well as a sample of sand

A small triangular swatch of wing fabric from the 1903 Wright Flyer that made the first heavier-than-air flight at Kitty Hawk on December 17, 1903. Th

Glossy 9 x 6 photo of a group of notable men, including dignitaries, kings, and Orville himself, in a field in Pau, France, watching the Wright Brothe

Three original press photos, various sizes, from the Wright’s trip to Le Mans, France in 1909. Images are of Katherine in the cockpit of the Wright fl

Three original press photos, all approximately 6.5 x 4.75, one showing the Wright flyer in the air, and the two others featuring their European agent

Four original glossy 6.5 x 4.5 press photos of Wright working on his 1911 glider at Kitty Hawk, two of which include British aviator Alex Ogilvie. Rev

Collection of seven original photos of a hot air balloon exhibition over the Wright’s Camp d'Auvours, including one taken from the basket of the...

Original 6.25 x 4.25 photo of Wilbur Wright standing with Captain Paul N. Lucas-Girardville and Count Charles de Lambert in front of a hangar, taken i

Original 7 x 4.75 press photo of Wilbur seated in his Wright Type A at the Hunaudieres race course near Le Mans, France, in August of 1908. Reverse be

Original 3.25 x 5 half-length portrait of Wilbur posing outside in Le Mans, France. Reverse bears an “M. Branger, Paris” photographer’s stamp. In fine

Original 5 x 6.75 photo of Wilbur standing outdoors alongside French inventor and automobile manufacturer Leon Bollee. Reverse bears a small pencil no

Original glossy 8.5 x 6.5 press photo of Wilbur showing his Wright flyer to King Edward VII of England in Pau, France, in March of 1909. Reverse bears

Original 6.5 x 4.5 photo of Orville Wright seated in the cockpit of his Wright flyer, with Paul Tissandier and Count Charles de Lambert alongside, tak

Original 6.25 x 4.25 press photo of Wilbur Wright and King Alfonso XIII of Spain sitting in the cockpit of the Wright Model A flyer, Wright’s European

Original glossy 6.5 x 4.5 photo of the Wright flyer soaring over a crowd of people on September 22, 1908. Photo is affixed to an 8.5 x 6.25 mount with

Original 3.5 x 2.5 photo of the Wright flyer on the ground in Le Mans, France, in 1908. In fine condition, with some scattered light foxing to borders

Original 6.5 x 4.5 press photo of Wright’s Type A flyer being positioned outside a shed at the Hunaudieres race course near Le Mans, France, in August

Original 6.5 x 4.5 press photo of the Wright flyer soaring over the French countryside. French notation on the reverse indicates the flight lasted for

Early European aviator (1865–1944) who was Wilbur Wright’s first flying student in France. Pearl-finish 6.5 x 4.5 photo of a Wright flyer in the air,

Aircraft manufacturer (1888–1976), who managed the Dayton, Ohio Wright Company factory in 1913 and 1914. Matte-finish 4.5 x 7 photo of Loening, affixe

Gorgeous color 12.25 x 16.5 print entitled ‘L’Aeroplane de Wilbur Wright en Plein Vol,’ showing a beautiful painting by A. Serougart of a small crowd

Early German color 18.5 x 12.25 print entitled ‘Ein Flug Wilbur Wright in der Abenddämmerung,’ based on an original drawing by S. Macchiati, fe...

Four original German postcards, all approximately 5.25 x 3.25, each featuring images of Wright’s visit to Germany in the fall of 1909. Included are tw

Two French publications: an issue of La Vieau Grand Air magazine, 11 x 14, 15 pages, August 28, 1909, depicting Paul Tissandier in flight on the front

An issue of French newspaper Le Petit Parisien, 12 x 17, seven pages, January 24, 1904, featuring a full-page color image on the reverse of the Wright

Early French aviation sales catalog entitled “Aeroplanes agents de vente des monoplans Bleriot, G. Borel & Co.,” 8.5 x 10.75, two pages, listing...

Booklet, in French, entitled, “L’Aviation et les Aviateurs,” 6.25 x 9.5, full of photos of various airplanes and their pilots, including Santos-Dumont

Two reels of 16mm film featuring International Newsreel and MGM News footage of Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh. The reels include footage of Lin

Pilot’s Airplane Manual by N. O. Anderson, 6.5 x 9, 150 pages, September 1940, issued by the US Department of Commerce and the Civil Aeronautics Admin

Unsigned book: Aircraft Powerplant Manual by G. Burnell Manly. Later printing. Chicago: Frederick J. Drake and Company, 1942. Hardcover, 5.75 x 7.75,

Pilot Training Manual for the Skymaster C-54, 8 x 10.5, 206 pages. Dated August of 1945, this manual is labeled “restricted,” features an introduction

Three World War II technical manuals issued by the War Department. Titles are: Aircraft Electrical Systems (TM 1-406), Electrical Fundamentals (TN 1-4

Nice collection of 24 color aviation lithographs designed by Charles H. Hubbell, 16.5 x 13.75, including a set of 12 depicting military aircraft publi

Von Braun’s handwritten notes in pencil on the requirements for a spacecraft destined for Mars, unsigned, seven lined pages (all but one single-sided)

Incredible draft autograph letter in pencil, unsigned, three pages, 8 x 10.5, no date. Letter to Igor Sikorski. In part: “Upon return…I find a letter

The Explorers Club membership card issued to Wernher Von Braun in 1967, 3.75 x 2.25, signed along the bottom in black felt tip. Also bears a facsimile

Apollo 11 naval recovery cover with a stamped cachet honoring the mission’s recovery force, signed in black felt tip by von Braun. In fine condition,

Vertical tail fin from a late-World War II unmanned version of the V-1 flying bomb. Lightweight wedge-shaped aluminum fin measures 19.75 x 9.5 with no

A large V2 Rocket graphite rudder fragment. Solid graphite fragment measures 16 x 3.5 x 9 and has been drilled on the underside with 12 holes partiall

Collection of five artifacts used during the 1958 launch of Explorer I on January 31, 1958. Items include: a cross-cut section of umbilical cord, swat

Collection of 17 hard and softcover books: The Rocket Team (signed by author Frederick Ordway II); two copies of The Struggle in Space (both also sign

Collection of 15 unsigned hardcover books by Caidin. Titles are: The Greatest Challenge, I Am Eagle, Rockets and Missiles: Past and Future, Destinatio

Collection of 25 space-related books and manuals. Titles are: Guide to Rockets, Missiles, and Satellites; Space Stations (2); Man-Made Satellites; Fro

Souvenir metallic rocket paperweight, measuring 3.25? in diameter at the base and standing 3.75? tall, with a rocket protruding from the center. In ra

Training-used Orlan-DM space suit manufactured by NPP Zvedza. Semi-rigid suit measures approximately 65? in length. Suit retains its Cyrillic tag insi

Almost complete Sokol III ‘Strizh’ pressure space suit, made as a launch and re-entry suit for the Russian ‘Buran’ space shuttle, manufactured by NPP

Cosmonaut Sergei Treshchev’s flown and worn flight suit carried on board the International Space Station from June to December of 2002. One-piece blue

Lower half of a Sokol-KV space suit liquid cooling and ventilation garment. Pants portion is made from elastic fabric with flexible tubes interwoven a

An unfired Isayev S2.720A bi-propellant regenerative thrust chamber developed for use in the second stage of the Soviet S-75M Surface to Air Missile (

Uncommon and impressive Vostok model rocket. This 1:25 scale model is constructed from glass reinforced plastic, and metal. Made for exhibition purpos

Flown Hasselblad film canister launched and carried on board the Salyut-4 spacecraft. MAG-70 canister, numbered PI3263296, measures 3.5 x 3.25 x 3.5 w

Collection of ten colorful Russian space mission pins flown in Space for seven days in November 1992 within the Resurs 500 capsule as part of the Spac

A collection of approximately 450 Soviet commemorative space pins and buttons, various shapes and sizes, commemorating different cosmonauts, missions,

Three aluminum commemorative coins, all approximately 1.25? in diameter, issued between 2005 and 2007, each honoring a different unmanned Sputnik miss

Scarce signed book: Program and Doctrine of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.Moscow, 1962. Hardcover, 5.25 x 6.75, 287 pages. Signed on the fir

Satin-finish 10 x 8 photo of Leonov performing his historic space walk, signed in black felt tip, adding several Russian notations under his signature

Color 8 x 10 cardstock photo of Tereshkova posing in her white space suit, signed in blue felt tip. In fine condition.

Flown commemorative cover, 6.25 x 4, carried to the Mir space station in 1992 on board Soyuz TM-14. Cover bears several Mir space mail cancellations,

Three signed photos: an official color 10 x 8 NASA lithograph of an artist’s rendering of the Apollo-Soyuz rendezvous, signed in black felt tip by Ale

A very rare sizable flown fragment from the Mercury-Atlas 1 space capsule. Blown-out triangular-shaped fragment measures approximately 14 x 31 with it

Flown food clamp carried on board Gordon Cooper’s Faith 7 flight in May of 1963. Wire clamp measures approximately 2 x 3 with a one-inch tab of black

Five packets of flown space food carried into orbit by Gordon Cooper during his Faith 7 flight. Included is: a pouch labeled “Grape Juice,” numbered 0

Redstone Telemetry Wiring and Switch Interface. Instrument features a central 3.25 x 5.5 x 5 junction box with three braided cables extending from the

Substantial and well-documented segment from an outer perimeter section of heat shield from the Faith 7 capsule used for Gordon Cooper’s Mercury Atlas

A limited edition presentation containing a 1.5? long segment of film from Liberty Bell 7’s pilot observation camera, recovered from the Atlantic Ocea

Convair executive B. G. MacNabb’s launch pad hard hat and jacket. Green hard hat was worn during launches at the Air Force Missile Test Center and has

Vintage official glossy 8 x 10 NASA composite photo featuring an image of a Mercury-Atlas rocket on the launch pad, surrounded by smaller images of al

Official color 8 x 10 NASA lithograph of the Mercury astronauts posing in front of an Air Force jet at Langley on January 20, 1961, signed in felt tip

Uncommon paperstock 8 x 10.5 head-and-shoulders photo of Grissom posing with a Project Mercury pin on his lapel, signed in fountain pen. In very good

Color satin-finish 10 x 8 photo of the Liberty Bell 7 capsule at the bottom of the ocean, signed in black felt tip, “Off to space 7/21/61, Guenter F.

Satin-finish 8 x 10 photo of the two on stage, signed in gold ink, “Bill Dana, Jose Jimenez,” and “Wally Schirra Hose B.” In very fine condition.

FDC with a cachet honoring Project Mercury, signed in felt tip and ballpoint by ten astronauts from the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs: Alan She

Project Mercury laminated star chart panel from Kranz’s personal archives, 10.75 x 4, signed in black felt tip. In fine condition, with some toned adh

Three TLSs from Scott Carpenter, John Glenn, and Wally Schirra, each one page, 8 x 10.5, NASA letterhead, dated 1963. All were written in response to

Two items: a color satin-finish 8 x 10 photo of the astronauts in their space suits, signed in blue and black felt tip by Alan Shepard, Deke Slayton,

Two original color Mercury orbital charts published by the USAF Aeronautical Chart and Information Center. One is a first edition chart for the Mercur

Signed book: We Seven. First edition, first printing. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1962. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.75 x 9.5, 352 pages. Signed on t...

Signed book: This New Ocean: A History of Project Mercury. First edition. Washington, DC: NASA, 1966. Hardcover, 7 x 10, 681 pages. Signed on the half

Signed book: This New Ocean: A History of Project Mercury. Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1966. Softcover, 6.75 x 9.75, 681 pages. Sig

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

Scarce book: The Vanguard Satellite Launching Vehicle. NASA, 1960. Hardcover, 8.75 x 11.5, 188 pages. A Goddard Space Flight Center Library bookplate

Three official NASA reports published by the US Government Printing office to report the results of the first three United States manned orbital space

Uncommon NASA report titled, “Manned Space Flight—1963,” 7.75 x 10.25, 87 pages, signed on the front cover in black felt tip by Scott Carpenter, Gordo

Mercury Project Summary, 8 x 10.25, 444 pages, issued by NASA’s Manned Spacecraft Center in October of 1963, and includes the results of the fourth ma

Official NASA report titled “Results of the Third United States Manned Orbital Space Flight,” 8 x 10.25, 120 pages, dated October 3, 1962, signed on t

Guenter Wendt’s personal copy of the NASA manual entitled “Results of the Third United States Manned Orbital Space Flight,” 8 x 10.25, dated October 3

Original printed NASA “MR-3 post-flight debriefing of Alan B. Shepard, Jr.,” 8.5 x 11, bound with a single staple, and issued on August 22, 1961. Larg

Large binder, 18.5 x 23, filled with interesting copies of charts and graphs, and several large handwritten pages of notes on the construction and tes

Scott Carpenter’s copy of NASA’s transcript of the communications of mission MA-7, Carpenter’s Mercury flight, 8.5 x 11, 79 pages, bound by a single s

Original canister of film from the Mercury 3 mission. Canister measures 10.75? in diameter, and contains one reel of color film. Label affixed to the

Two Mercury-era space-related hand-painted salt and pepper shakers. One is in the form of an astronaut in his space suit, and stands 4? tall; the othe

Titan II Space Launch Vehicle (SLV) payload separation rocket. These motors were utilized for separation of the Post Boost stage containing the spacec

Three examples of samples of spacecraft structure and thermal protection system materials. Three samples are affixed to an 11 x 9 presentation board w

An original Gemini Boiler Plate Capsule, standing approximately 9.5 feet tall and weighing an impressive 4500 pounds. All of the panels are stamped Ma

Rare The Flight Times newspaper from August 9, 1963, 11 x 14, 12 pages, featuring a large image of the Gemini astronauts during desert training at the

First day cover with a Friendship 7 launch date postal cancellation, signed along the left side in ink and ballpoint by all nine Group 2 astronauts: “

Vintage felt tip signatures of Neil Armstrong, John Young, Alan Shepard, Charles Conrad, Richard Gordon, Tom Stafford, Deke Slayton, Gene Cernan, NASA