RR Auction: Space Exploration

Vintage glossy 7.5 x 10.25 portrait of the rocket pioneer in a suit and tie, signed and inscribed in blue felt tip in German (translated): "SFC...

Color semi-glossy 10 x 8 photo of the Saturn V rocket that would launch the Apollo 8 spacecraft into space en route to the moon, signed in black felt

Color satin-finish 14 x 11 photograph of an infrared aerial view of Cape Canaveral. Reverse bears "This Paper Manufactured by Kodak" water...

Souvenir booklet entitled "NASA at the John F. Kennedy Space Center," prepared for "NASA Tours Conducted by TWA," 24 pages, 9.25...

Official color glossy 8 x 10 red-numbered NASA photo of Kraft seated beside a model of the Lunar Module, neatly signed in black ink, "Christoph...

Signed book: Failure Is Not an Option. NY: Simon & Schuster, 2000. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.5 x 9.5, 415 pages. Signed on the half-title pa...

Satin-finish 10 x 8 profile photo of the legendary vest-wearing NASA flight director working at mission control, signed in black felt tip, "Eug...

Color satin-finish 10 x 8 photo of the Mercury Control Center during a simulation of the Mercury-Atlas 8 (Sigma 7) flight in 1962, signed in silver in

Glossy 10 x 8 photo of mission control following the successful splashdown and recovery of the Apollo 13 crew, with Gene Kranz smoking a cigar and Com

Satin-finish 11 x 8.5 photo of Kranz celebrating the successful splashdown of the Apollo 13 astronauts, signed in silver ink, "Eugene F. Kranz,...

Satin-finish 10 x 8 photo of the disabled Apollo 13 capsule, signed in gold ink, "Eugene F. Kranz, 'Flight,'" and "'Fligh...

Satin-finish 8 x 10 photo of the damaged Apollo 13 spacecraft, signed in gold ink, "Eugene F. Kranz, 'Flight,'" and "'We ...

Two original glossy photographs of an artist's concept rendering of NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Texas: a color 14 x 11 photo...

Three items affiliated with the Marshall Space Flight Center, including: a 11.5" x 4.25" plastic sign for the "Marshall Space Flight ...

Color satin-finish 10 x 8 photo of President Richard Nixon presenting the Medal of Freedom to the Apollo 13 Mission Operations Team, signed in multico

Four vintage NASA "Biography" packets from the Manned Spacecraft Center, each 8 x 10.5, with two dated November 1963 and two dated January...

Collection of six handbooks associated with the 'Program Evaluation Review Technique' (PERT) project management method. Designed to simplify...

Glossy 8 x 10 full-length photo of NASA nurse Dee O'Hara walking arm-in-arm with Scott Carpenter and Wally Schirra, signed in blue felt tip, &qu...

Beautiful signed book: History of Rocketry and Space Travel by Wernher von Braun and Frederick I. Ordway III. Limited first edition. NY: Thomas Y. Cro

Ideal glossy 8 x 10 photo of von Braun wearing his Marshall Space Flight Center name tag and posing in front of the AS-506, the Apollo 11 moon rocket,

Vintage glossy 10.5 x 8 photo of the Marshall Space Flight Center director seated at his desk upon which sits a model of a Jupiter rocket, signed and

Lot of six vintage photographs of legendary aerospace engineer and space architect Wernher von Braun, various finishes, ranging in size from 3.5 x 3.7

Signed book: The Unbroken Chain. First edition. Burlington, Ontario: Apogee Books, 2001. Hardcover with dust jacket and CD-ROM, 7 x 10, 216 pages. Sig

Color satin-finish 10 x 8 photo of Guenter Wendt and other launch staff during the Countdown Demonstration Test for the Apollo 11 mission, signed in b

Skylab Apollo Telescope Mount (ATM) Camera Film Magazine training device, measuring 20" x 11" x 4", with spring-loaded handle and mou...

Standard Fluorescent Light Assembly for the interior of the Skylab space station, 24.75 x 3.5 x 5, with part label to interior light bulb socket readi

Specially developed high intensity light designed for interior photography in the Skylab space station when the standard fluorescent lights were insuf

Skylab-era Mass Spectrometer Sensor System made by Perkin-Elmer’s Aerospace Division of Pomona, California, 14 x 7.5 x 7.2

Vacuum Cleaner mockup for Skylab's Orbital Workshop, 7.5" x 12" x 14", with upper handle and 'on / off' toggle switch, an...

Lot of seven photographs, 8 x 10 and 10 x 8, various finishes, signed in blue or black felt tip by Space Shuttle and Skylab astronaut Jack Lousma. The

Seven Skylab items, including: two different commemorative covers for Skylab 3 signed in black felt tip by astronauts Alan Bean, Jack Lousma, and Owen

Paul Weitz's Project Skylab commemorative cover with a 'Colorano' silk color cachet honoring the mission, postmarked on the Skylab 2 lau...

Goddard Space Flight Center display featuring two laminated 'Operations Control' badges for Skylab missions 2 and 3, both 2.75 x 4 and issue...

Launch day cover with a stamped cachet honoring the Skylab 3 (SL-3) mission, postmarked at Kennedy Space Center on July 28, 1973, signed in ink by Ala

Color satin-finish 8 x 10 photo of the Skylab 3 crew posing together, signed in black felt tip by Alan Bean, Jack Lousma, and Owen Garriott. In fine c

A 9 x 8.25 swatch of Beta cloth bearing a Skylab 4 mission insignia in the center, signed in black felt tip, "Bill Pogue, Pilot, Skylab 4,"...

Commemorative cover with a cachet honoring the Skylab-4 mission, postmarked at the Philatelic Society of Pittsburgh two weeks prior to launch on Novem

Soviet facsimile editions of the three books carried on the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (with facsimile signatures of the crewmen on the covers), releas

Color semi-glossy 8 x 10 photo of astronaut Thomas Stafford and cosmonaut Alexei Leonov in the hatchway leading from the Apollo Docking Module to the

Color glossy 13.25 x 10.25 photo of the Space Shuttle on the launch pad, affixed to its original 19.75 x 15.75 mount, inscribed at the top in an unkno

Great color glossy 9.5 x 7 photo of the Space Shuttle on the launch pad, affixed to its original 14 x 11 mount, signed on the mount in ink by 50 astro

Attested to as flown by Astrotech—a long piece of insulation material carried on the Space Shuttle Atlantis Orbiter as par

Attested to as flown by Astrotech—a piece of insulation material carried on the Space Shuttle Discovery Orbiter as part of

Attested to as flown by Astrotech—a long piece of thermal barrier carried on an unknown Space Shuttle Orbiter as part of a

Flown 5.75 x 4 American flag carried aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia on the STS-1 mission, affixed to its original 8.5 x 11 presentation certificate

Flown fabric Canadian flag and STS-2 mission patch, 6 x 4.25 and 4 x 4.5, carried aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia during its second flight on Novemb

Flown American flag, 5.5 x 4.25, carried aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis on the STS-66 mission from November 3-14, 1994. The flag is affixed to a 16

Fantastic 14K gold medallion of the STS-68 insignia carried on the Space Shuttle Endeavour during the 1994 mission, measuring 1.5" x 1.25"...

John Young's unflown STS-1 Robbins medal, approximately 1.5" in diameter, with a raised design on the face featuring the mission insignia. ...

John Young's flown sterling silver STS-9 Robbins medal, approximately 1.5 x 1.5, with a raised design on the face featuring the mission insignia...