RR Auction: Space and Aviation

Four signed postal covers: an airmail envelope with a cachet honoring the first American rocket airplane flight, postmarked Hewitt, New Jersey, Februa

Austrian aerospace engineer best known for his contributions to lifting body and ramjet technology (1905–1964). Rare handwritten manuscript, unsigned

Cross-section segment of an Allison J33-A-14 turbojet Regulus cruise missile from the late 1950s, measuring approximately 26? tall and 12? in diameter

Pioneering Indian aerospace engineer (1891–1951) who developed techniques in delivering mail by rocket. Indian rocket mail cover with an affixed cache

German engineer, pilot, and rocket pioneer (1893–1933) who was killed as a result of burns suffered in an explosion at his rocket workshop. Flown rock

Appealing collection of 25 FDCs and commemorative covers bearing space-related cachets or stamps, each signed by in ink or felt tip by a pioneering ro

ANS signed “B,” one page, lightly lined, 5 x 7.25, November 17, 1974. Note to Kayren Redman Governale, his secretary at Fairchild Industries, in full:

Autograph manuscript in pencil, three pages, lightly lined, 8 x 10.5, unsigned, no date, written entirely in the hand of von Braun. The manuscript is

Ideal glossy 8 x 10 photo of von Braun wearing his Marshall Space Flight Center name tag and posing in front of the AS–506, the Apollo 11 moon rocket,

TLS in German, signed “Wernher,” one page, 8 x 10.5, NASA letterhead, November 26, 1968. Letter to German rocket pioneer Rudolf Nebel, thanking him fo