RR Auction: Space Exploration and Aviation

Rare Project Mercury 'Type M' testing/training left-handed space suit glove built for Mercury-Redstone 3 pilot Alan Shepard, constructed fro...

Segment of heatshield from Scott Carpenter's Aurora 7 capsule flown on the Mercury-Atlas 7 mission, attested to by NASA employee William R. '...

Scott Carpenter‰Ûªs bronze-tone medallion, 1.5è in diameter, with the front showing an embossed image of a M

Scott Carpenter‰Ûªs personally-owned and -worn black flight jacket, with American flag and Space Shuttle patches to shoulders

Signed book: John Glenn: A Memoir. NY: Bantam Books, 1999. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.5 x 9.5, 422 pages. Signed and inscribed on the half-title pa

Project Mercury Flight Controller Handbook personally-owned and ‰ÛÒused by longtime NASA flight director Gene Kranz for the l

FDC featuring the four-cent 'U.S. Man in Space, Project Mercury' postage stamp, postmarked at Cape Canaveral on its day of issue, February 2...

Large color satin-finish 16 x 20 photo of the iconic group shot of the original seven Mercury astronauts posing together in their silver space suits,

Crystal-clear color satin-finish 20 x 16 photo of the original Mercury astronauts posing in front of a Convair F106-B aircraft at Langley Air Force Ba

Collection of six artifacts attested to as flown by Florian Noller and deriving from each of the Mercury Program‰Ûªs manned s

Wally Schirra's first edition of the "Apollo Flight Chart / Base Chart" used in training as backup commander of the Apollo 1 mission, ...

Color satin-finish 8 x 10 photo of the fiery liftoff of the Mercury-Atlas 6, signed in black felt tip, "'Godspeed John Glenn,' Scott Ca...

Color satin-finish 10 x 8 photo of Carpenter wearing his Mercury space suit and posing in front of the NASA 'meatball' logo at the Mercury C...

Color satin-finish 8 x 10 photo of the Mercury-Atlas 7 launch from Cape Canaveral, signed in black felt tip, "MA-7 Liftoff, 24 May, 1962, Scott...

Color satin-finish 8 x 10 photo of the Mercury-Atlas 7 pilot seated in his space suit, signed in blue felt tip by Scott Carpenter. In fine condition.

Color satin-finish 8 x 10 photo of Carpenter posing in his silver Project Mercury suit, signed in blue felt tip, "Scott Carpenter, Aurora 7.&qu...

Official glossy 8 x 10 NASA photo of Scott Carpenter seated in his Mercury suit, signed in black felt tip. Reverse bears a NASA and U.S. Air Force sta

Two items: an official glossy 8 x 10 NASA portrait of Carpenter with a Mercury Seven pin on his lapel, signed and inscribed in black felt tip, "...

Rare official NASA memorandum containing a transcript of the communications of Scott Carpenter's MA-7 'Aurora 7' flight, 8.5 x 11, 79 pa...

Scarce vintage circa 1961 Convair Astronautics identification badge, 2è in diameter, reading: "214, A. N. Gordon, 39550." Rever...

Color satin-finish 8 x 10 full-length photo of Cooper, with helmet in hand, posing in his Mercury space suit against a yellow background, signed in th

Color semi-glossy 8 x 10 photo of Cooper wearing his Mercury space suit next to a capsule model and surrounded by mist, signed in thin blue felt tip,

Crystal-clear color satin-finish 8 x 10 photo of the Mercury-Atlas 9 liftoff, signed in black felt tip, "Mercury Atlas 9 launch from Pad 14! Th...

Color satin-finish 10 x 8 photo of the Gemini SC5 liftoff at Cape Canaveral, signed in black felt tip, "Launch of Gemini 5 for an 8 day world r...

Color semi-glossy 8 x 10 photo of the liftoff of the Mercury-Atlas 9 mission, signed in blue felt tip, "Faith 7 Launch, 15 May 1963, Gordon Coo...

Gordon Cooper's "B-26-B,-C Pilot's Amplified Check List," 4.5 x 7.5, signed on the front cover in blue ballpoint, "My B-26 ch...

Satin-finish 8 x 10 photo of Cooper testing out his suit, signed in blue felt tip, "Gordon Cooper, Gemini V." In fine condition.

Official color glossy 8 x 10 red-numbered NASA photo (S-63-7603) of the launch of the Mercury-Atlas 9 mission and the Faith 7 spacecraft, signed and i

Official glossy 8 x 10 numbered NASA photo (S-63-4007) of Gordon Cooper and John Glenn discussing the helmet and gloves that Cooper will be wearing du

Commemorative cover with a green cachet honoring Project Mercury, stamped "Cooper" below, postmarked at Cape Canaveral on May 15, 1963, th...

Newsreel entitled "Return of a Hero" on a reel of black-and-white 35mm film, 7.25è in diameter, labeled on an exterior cardboar...

FDC with a color cachet honoring the USS Noa, the recovery ship for John Glenn's Mercury-Atlas 6 mission, postmarked on the Gearing-class destro...

Official color 8 x 10 NASA lithograph of Glenn with a Mercury 7 pin on his lapel, signed in black ballpoint, "J. H. Glenn, Jr." In very go...

Color semi-glossy 8 x 10 photo of John Glenn posing in his Mercury space suit, signed in the lower border in blue felt tip. In fine condition.

Official glossy 10 x 8 NASA photo of President John F. Kennedy, John Glenn, and General Leighton I. Davis riding together during a parade in Cocoa Bea

Color glossy 8 x 11 reprint of a red-numbered NASA photo showing John Glenn in his Mercury space suit, signed in black felt tip. In fine condition.

Glossy 8 x 10 photo of the Friendship 7 pilot smiling in his flight suit, signed in the lower border in black felt tip by John Glenn. In fine conditio

Two covers signed in ink or felt tip by John Glenn: an FDC postmarked at Houston on August 2, 1971; and a commemorative cover with a Space Shuttle cac

Commemorative cover with a colorful cachet honoring John Glenn's Mercury-Atlas 6 'Friendship 7' orbital flight, boldly signed in fountai...

Fantastic collection of 27 original vintage glossy NASA photos chronicling John Glenn's Mercury Atlas-6 mission, 8 x 10 and 10 x 8, most with bl...

Color satin-finish 8 x 10 photo of Glenn in his silver Project Mercury suit, signed and inscribed in black felt tip, "To Peter‰Û

Official glossy 8 x 10 NASA close-up photo of John Glenn wearing his Gemini space suit, signed and inscribed in black ink to a NASA aerospace engineer

An EKG printout showing the electrical signals in John Glenn‰Ûªs heart as he passed over Africa during his historic Mercury-A

Limited edition flown original piece of film from Gus Grissom‰Ûªs Liberty Bell 7 Mercury spacecraft, issued in commemoration

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, Guen...

Flown .75è x 1è section of the neck dam from Gus Grissom‰Ûªs pressure suit, which he wore i

Six blocks of Project Mercury 4-cent stamps, each 4 x 2.25, individually signed in felt tip by one of America's original astronauts: John Glenn,...

Limited edition color semi-glossy 10 x 8 composite photo of events celebrating the Mercury program, numbered 182/300, signed in black felt tip by John

Four items signed by a Mercury astronaut: a TLS signed ‰ÛÏDonald K. Slayton,‰Û Project Mercury stat

Glossy 8 x 10 photo of the original seven Mercury astronauts standing behind President John F. Kennedy when he presented them with the 1962 Robert J.