RR Auction: Space and Aviation

German V2 rocket combustion chamber relic, measuring approximately 8 x 7 x 3, with its many valves and threaded fittings still evident despite heavy d

Vintage matte-finish 11 x 14 photo of five rocketry pioneers posing with scale models of missiles created during the 1950s, affixed to its original 16

Vintage glossy 8 x 10 head-and-shoulders portrait of the pioneering rocket scientist, signed in the lower border in fountain pen, “H. Oberth.” In fine

Signed book: The Mars Project. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1953. Hardcover with dust jacket, 7.25 x 9.25, 91 pages. Signed and inscribed to

Signed book: The Exploration of Mars. First edition. NY: Viking Press, 1956. Hardcover with dust jacket, 8.5 x 11, 176 pages. Signed and inscribed to

TLS, one page, 8 x 10.5, US Government Office Memorandum letterhead, July 19, 1955. Memo to Mrs. Bonnie G. Holmes, in part: “I wish to take this oppor

TLS, two pages, 8 x 10.5, NASA letterhead, December 6, 1962. Letter to Leonard V. Fulton, in full: “I was touched by your letter of concern for the fu

Congratulatory Western Union telegram, one page, 8 x 6.25, stamp-dated February 1, 1958. Telegram to “Dr and Mrs Wernher Von Braun” from President Dwi

Wernher von Braun’s name badge, 3.5 x 2.25, simply reading “Dr. Wernher von Braun,” affixed to a caption typed by von Braun’s longtime assistant Bonni

Typed report notes by Ernst Stuhlinger, one page, 8 x 10.5, circa early 1960s, annotated in pencil by Von Braun and initialed, “B.” The notes concern