RR Auction: Space Exploration

Scarce copy of Mechanix Illustrated magazine from September 1945, 6.5 x 9.5, 162 pages, with the front cover featuring a brilliant color depiction of

TLS, one page, 7.25 x 10.75, personal letterhead, September 11, 1952. Letter to Donald D. Jackson, editor of the University of Illinois Press, in full

ALS in pencil, signed “Wernher,” three pages on two lined sheets, 8 x 10.5, March 6, 1958. Letter to fellow rocket scientist Ernst Stuhlinger, in part

Handwritten note in pencil by von Braun, unsigned, one page, 4 x 5.5, Army Ballistic Missile Agency letterhead, June 23, [1958]. Von Braun responds to

World War II–era aluminum and red enamel worker's access badge for the Peenemunde Army Research Center, measuring approximately 1.5 x 1.75, mark...

TLS, one page, 8 x 10.5, NASA letterhead, April 19, 1962. Letter to Kenneth Heuer, the senior Science editor at the Macmillan Company, in full: &quo...

Two items: an ALS, one page, lightly lined, 7.75 x 10.5, February 10 [no year], addressed to "Dennis," in part: "The XS–1 program, be...

Gordon Cooper's personally owned Project Mercury brochure published at the NASA Langley Research Center in April 1959, four pages, 8 x 10.5, ver...

Remarkable vintage glossy 9 x 7 black and white photo of the Mercury 7 posing with rocket and capsule models during their introductory press conferenc

Two early items: a TLS signed "M. Scott Carpenter," one page, 7.5 x 10, Project Mercury letterhead, October 5, 1961, to Miss Marquita Park...

Two items: a TLS signed "M. S. Carpenter," one page, 8 x 10.5, NASA letterhead, October 30, 1962, in part: "Please accept my thanks, ...

TLS signed “M. Scott Carpenter,” one page, 8 x 10.5, NASA letterhead, February 2, 1962. Letter to Clara Biondi, an eighth grade student in Connecticut

Two early items: a TLS signed "Leroy G. Cooper, Jr.," one page, 7.75 x 10, Project Mercury letterhead, October 2, 1961, to Miss Marquita P...

Official color satin-finish 8 x 10 red-numbered NASA photo of Cooper posing with a model in his silver Mercury space suit, signed in red felt tip. Rev

TLS signed “J. H. Glenn, Jr.,” one page, 7.75 x 10.5, personal NASA/Friendship 7 letterhead, April 17, 1962. Letter to Harry T. McMullan, in full: &...

TLS signed “J. H. Glenn, Jr.,” one page, 7.75 x 10.5, NASA letterhead, stamp-dated November 5, 1962. Letter to Joan Rosenfeld, in full: "Thank ...

TLS signed “J. H. Glenn, Jr.,” one page, 8 x 9, NASA letterhead, June 25, 1963. Letter to John Dominick, in full: "I was very glad to have had ...

TLS signed “John H. Glenn, Jr.,” one page, 7.75 x 10, Project Mercury letterhead, October 31, 1961. Letter to Marquita Park, in full: "Thank yo...

Three items: a TLS signed "J. H. Glenn, Jr., one page, 8 x 10.5, NASA letterhead, June 1963, a letter addressed to Forrest E. Cook, in part: &q...

Very early TLS signed “Virgil I. Grissom,” one page, 8 x 10.5, NASA letterhead, August 4, 1961. Letter to Thomas H. Scullion, in full: "Thank y...