RR Auction: Space & Aviation

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