RR Auction: Space Exploration

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