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