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