RR Auction: Space and Aviation

Vintage glossy 13 x 10 photo of the original seven Mercury astronauts posing in front of a US Air Force jet, signed above their respective images in v

Color satin-finish 14 x 11 photo of all seven Mercury astronauts posing in front of an Air Force jet, signed in black felt tip by Scott Carpenter, Gor

Paperstock 8.5 x 11 photo of the Mercury 7 in their space suits, signed in ballpoint and felt tip by six, “Alan Shepard,” “Wally Schirra,” “D. K. Slay

Signed book: We Seven. Book club edition. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1962. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.75 x 8.5, 473 pages. Signed on an opening pa...

DS, four pages, 8.5 x 13, October 8, 1965. Contract in which Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard, and Deke Slayto

TLS signed “Sincerely, Edward K. Thompson,” two pages, 7.25 x 11, Life letterhead, April 9, 1959. Letter to the prospective astronauts of Project Merc

Souvenir typescript, one page, 8.5 x 11, signed in black felt tip and ballpoint by Alan Shepard, Wally Schirra, John Glenn, Gordon Cooper, Scott Carpe

TLS signed “Leo,” one page, 5.5 x 8.5, Law Offices of De Orsey and Thompson letterhead, November 22, 1960. Letter to “the boys” of Project Mercury, in

Two items: an original Western Union telegram addressed to longtime space program journalist Mary Bubb, one page, September 15, 1960, in part: “FYI: S

Original vintage glossy 8 x 10 NASA photo of Shepard in the Freedom 7 spacecraft prior to his first flight, signed in black felt tip. Reverse bears bl