RR Auction: Space and Aviation

Italian-American artist who worked for NASA during the 1960s, creating technical drawings for various projects as well as conceptual art for the Apoll

Telemetry strip of data transmitted from the Mariner 2 probe to Venus, 8 x 1.75, as received by the JPL flight control center in California in Decembe

Impressive manual entitled “Mars Scientific Model, Volume I, Document No. 606-1,” produced by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 11 x 11.5, over 500 pages

Collection of NASA–related ephemera, predominately from the mid-1960s, including: nine issues of Spaceport News from 1965–1966; three ‘KSC Bulletin’ n

Two identical color limited edition 26.5 x 18.5 prints entitled ‘Excelsior III,’ numbered 428/550 and 429/550, both signed in pencil by Joe W. Kitting

Two official balloon mail commemorative covers with cachets honoring the Breitling Orbiter II and III balloons, both 7.5 x 4.75, postmarked January 28

Two items: a 6 x 3.5 commemorative cover with a cachet honoring English aviation pioneer Alan Cobham’s First United States Overland Flight, signed in