RR Auction: Space and Aviation

Original official NASA news release press kit for Mercury-Redstone 3, 38 pages, 8 x 10.5, April 26, 1961, signed on the cover sheet in black felt tip,

Original Dorsett Electronics press release, one page, 8.5 x 11, no date but circa 1961, signed in black felt tip, “Alan Shepard.” Press released entit

Souvenir typescript, one page, 8.5 x 11, signed in blue ballpoint, “Alan Shepard.” Typescript of the conversation between Shepard and Mission Control

Unusual 7 x 5 philatelic card featuring an image of President John F. Kennedy and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson with the Mercury 7 astronauts, bear

Extremely rare USS Lake Champlain cover from the recovery of Alan Shepard following his historic first flight on the Freedom 7, canceled “USS Lake Cha

Two pages of space journalist Mary E. Bubb’s handwritten notes, one page in ballpoint and one in pencil, 8.5 x 11, from the MR-3 launch on May 5, 1961

Collection of items, including: a record album entitled “A Recording of the Historic Space Voyage of Americas First Astronaut,” signed on the sleeve i

A cut cross section of the umbilical cable used in the MR-3 launch of Alan Shepard’s Freedom 7 on May 5, 1961, measuring approximately 2? in diameter

Certificate awarded to Gus Grissom by the American Astronautical Society, one page, 11.75 x 8.75, no date. In full: “The American Astronautical Societ

ALS signed “Virgil,” two pages both sides, 7.75 x 10, Project Mercury letterhead, October 7, 1961. Letter to his mother. In full: “I just got home fro

Historic silver 1944 Mercury Head dime recovered from Gus Grissom’s Liberty Bell 7 spacecraft almost 38 years to the day after the Mercury capsule and

Flown Aireasearch Environmental Control Unit (ECU) component recovered from the Liberty Bell 7 spacecraft wreckage almost 38 years to the day after th

Flown original component from Gus Grissom’s Liberty Bell 7 Mercury spacecraft, recovered from the Atlantic Ocean on July 20, 1999. The piece measures

Color satin-finish 10 x 8 photo of the Liberty Bell 7 capsule at the bottom of the ocean, signed in black felt tip, “Off to space 7/21/61, Guenter F.

Interesting collection of space journalist Mary Bubb’s materials related to the MA-6 launch of John Glenn aboard the Friendship 7 on February 20, 1962

Collection of four items: an official color 8 x 10 NASA lithograph of Glenn in formal attire, signed in black felt tip, “Best regards—John Glenn”; an

Scale model of the Mercury-Atlas launch vehicle on a wooden base, measuring an overall 12.5? tall, signed on the base in black felt tip, “Scott Carpen

Softcover manual entitled Results of the Second United States Manned Orbital Space Flight, 107 pages, 8 x 10.25, May 24, 1962, signed on the front cov

Original official NASA news release press kit for Mercury-Atlas 7, 23 pages, 8 x 10.5, May 13, 1962, signed on the cover sheet in ballpoint, “Scott Ca

Brilliant color satin-finish 8 x 10 photo of the Friendship 7 liftoff on February 20, 1962, signed in black felt tip, “‘God Speed John Glenn, Friendsh