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