RR Auction: Space Exploration

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