RR Auction: Space Exploration

Handsome 8 x 10 half-length portrait of Wernher von Braun, signed and inscribed in blue felt tip, “True pioneering spirit knows no bounds. It made Tex

ALS, one page, lightly-lined, 8 x 10.5, no date but circa 1970. Letter to his secretary. In full: “Please get me ‘Apollo and Apollo Applications’ Staf

DS, one page, 3.5 x 5.25, June 17, 1973. A Federal Aviation Administration ‘Medical Certificate I Class’ filled out in type with von Braun’s personal

Program for the 10th Annual Honors Dinner Meeting of the Alabama Section of the American Rocket Society, held at Fort Raymond W. Jones Armory on Octob

Signed miniature book: Robert Hutchings Goddard: Father of the Space Age. Limited edition, numbered 1408/1926. Worcester, MA: Achille J. St. Onge, 196

Six KNIGA covers, all with cachets commemorating Russian space achievements, issued and canceled to mark one of the first six Russian manned space mis

Partly-printed untranslated invitation in Cyrillic on an off-white 7.25 x 5 card embossed with a detailed hammer and sickle Soviet crest, November 7,

Two items: a Federation of Cosmonauts of the USSR diploma certificate, printed inside a 8.75 x 12.25 folder featuring an image of Gagarin on the left

An interesting cosmonaut pilot survival kit contained within an olive drab canvas bag, stamped on the front with part numbers, "HA3-7, 9104917....

Collection of thirteen Soviet space medals, primarily from the 1980s, including nine accompanied by their original award citation certificates: a 1982

A collection of approximately 350 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

A tall, custom-made model of a Russian Vulkan rocket with eight boosters, measuring 51? tall, with a design based on the Energia booster and intended

Pair of matching cosmonaut gloves with an insulated nylon canvas outer surface and inner pressure glove with pebbled green rubber palm and fingertips,

Large flown film canister used aboard the Russian space station MIR between 1988 and 1992 during several Soyuz missions, measuring 3.5? tall and 7? in

Flown Hasselblad film canister carried on the Salyut-4 spacecraft from December 26, 1974, to February 9, 1975, measuring 3.75 x 3.5 x 2, serial number

Four flown film canisters carried on the Soyuz TM-3 mission, each measuring 2.75? long and 1? in diameter, all wrapped in tape with typed and handwrit

Collection of 15 packages of Russian space food, with cuisine including: dinner bread, crackers, toffee, ginger cookies, caramel, marmalade, cookies,

Flown American Confederate flag carried on the Soyuz TMA-5 mission, 6 x 4, signed on the left side in black felt tip by Flight Engineer Leroy Chiao an

Color satin-finish 10 x 8 photo of Leonov during his historic first space walk, signed in silver ink, adding the flight mission and date, March 18, 19

Color satin-finish 8 x 10 photo of Tereshkova in her white space suit, signed in black felt tip, “First woman in space...Vostok–6, 16.06—19.06, 1963.”

Uncommon official NASA 10 x 8 semi-glossy photo of the X–15 rocket plane in mid-flight, signed in blue felt tip by Neil Armstrong. In fine condition.

Rare vintage commemorative cover with a stamped cachet honoring Neil Armstrong’s fourth of seven flights while testing the rocket-powered X-15 aircraf

Ballpoint signature, “Neil Armstrong,” adding four rocket plane flights, ”X–1B, X–5, X–14, X–15,” on an off-white 7.75 x 10.75 summary sheet for the X

Flown limited edition signed book: Robert Hutchings Goddard: Father of the Space Age. Limited edition of 1926 copies (This being No. 67). Worcester, M

Milton Orville Thompson’s flight chart map of Edwards Air Force Base in southern California, 26.5 x 40, showing the base and 'Western Defense Ar...

Scott Carpenter's Project Mercury training manual bound within brown cardstock sheets, 9 x 11.5, bearing a white label affixed to the front fill...

Gordon Cooper's Mercury-era personal journal written in pencil and ballpoint, 41 pages on 22 lined loose-leaf 5.5 x 8.5 sheets, plus several add...

Scarce vintage ballpoint signatures of “Virgil I. Grissom,” “Alan B. Shepard, Jr.,” and “John H. Glenn, Jr.,” on a 6.25 x 2.5 Fedders Island souvenir

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

An Astronaut Office MSC routing slip, 5.25 x 8, filled out in type with the names of 37 different astronauts, initialed by all and dated by most, with

Color limited edition 21 x 29 lithograph of R. L. Rasmussen’s watercolor of a Mercury rocket entitled ‘Space…The Pioneers,’ numbered 245/300, signed i

Rare limited edition Project Mercury commemorative Spacecraft cover with a Carl Swanson cachet honoring Freedom 7 and astronaut Alan Shepard as the fi

ALS signed “Gordon Cooper, Col USAF (Ret),” one page, 8.5 x 11, January 2, 1993. In part: “I feel very lucky and very privileged to have been in the r

Personal check, 6.25 x 2.75, filled out and signed by Grissom, “Virgil I. Grissom,” payable to The Society of Experimental Test Pilots for $6.25, July

Important flown survival radio transceiver carried on Mercury-Atlas 9, measuring 3 x 4.75 x .75, bearing an affixed label reading: “Rescue Beacon Tran

Exceptional assortment of books from the collection of NASA engineer Max Faget, the designer of the Mercury capsule, comprised entirely of space-relat

Gordon Cooper’s silver ‘senior pilot’ astronaut wings badge produced by Vanguard, measuring 3? long, hallmarked on the reverse, “Vanguard, 1-V, 10K.”

Impressive Collier Trophy awarded to Scott Carpenter as one of the members of the Mercury 7, measuring 13.5? tall with an 8.25 x 8.25 base, engraved o

A segment of umbilical cable from Mercury-Redstone 4, measuring 3.25? long and 2? in diameter, which connected to the Liberty Bell 7 during launch pro

A fuse used in verifying the firing circuits in Mercury and Gemini spacecraft from the collection of Guenter Wendt, measuring 1.25? long, wrapped in t

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

Flown cylindrical component from Gus Grissom’s Liberty Bell 7 spacecraft, recovered from the Atlantic Ocean on July 20, 1999. The piece measures appro

A cut cross section of the umbilical cable released from the Atlas rocket used to launch John Glenn into orbit on February 20, 1962, measuring approxi

Red hard plastic news reporter’s helmet with affixed decals on the front and sides reading “NBC,” “NBC News,” and “WFGA-TV 12, Jacksonville, Florida.”

Gene Kranz’s operations manual for Mercury-Atlas 9, entitled “Mercury/Atlas Network Countdown,” April 5, 1963, with tabbed sections including “Flight

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: “

Flown American flag, 6 x 4, signed on the white lines in black ink, “Flown on Gemini IV, Jim McDivitt.” In fine condition. Accompanied by a certificat

Gordon Cooper’s personally-owned and -worn blue jacket bearing an official NASA ‘meatball’ logo patch on the left breast and a Gemini 5 ‘Eight Days or

Flown metal fragment from the Gemini 5 oxidizer tank, measuring 2.5 x .5, presented in an acrylic block against a wooden 6 x 8 plaque bearing metal pl