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TLS, one page, 8 x 10.5, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas letterhead, stamp dated July 2, 1963.

Distinguished limited edition color glossy 9.25 x 7.25 photo of Shepard receiving a medal from President John F. Kennedy, #1384/2500, signed in black

Alan Shepard’s hardcover Battalion Pass Book, 6 x 9.25, signed a total of 38 times, “A. B. Shepard, Jr.,” while a midshipman at the Naval Academy. Boo

Very rare Mercury badge, 2.25? diameter, with “NASA-lod Mercury,” around the outer edge, with an image of the Roman god in flight with a rocket under

Original pinback “MAC” button, 2.5? in diameter. Pin features a space capsule in orbit, with “MAC” along the bottom edge, most likely standing for McD

Color vintage 8 x 10 NASA head-and-shoulders photo of Grissom in a jacket and tie, with a Mercury 7 pin on his lapel, signed in blue ballpoint. A bit

Vintage glossy 8 x 10 photo of Grissom in his Gemini flight suit, signed and inscribed in blue ballpoint “Best of luck to Matthew, Gus Grissom.” In ve

Book: Space Medicine in Project Mercury. Washington, D. C.: NASA, 1965. Softcover, 5.75 x 8.75, 198 pages. In very good condition, with Wite-Out
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Signed book: Project Mercury. NY: Time Inc., 1964. Softcover, 10.5 x 13.5. Signed and inscribed in black felt tip on the half-title page, “All best wi

National Aeronautics and Space Administration Space Task Group booklet, July 21, 1961, 7.75 x 10.25, featuring pages of images and a recap of the day

Ten items: two hardcover books: The Art of Composition, featuring Shepard’s name on the first free-end page, printed in blue ballpoint, “A. B. Shepard

Three piece wooden model of the single-seated Mercury capsule that carried astronaut Alan Shepard on a sub-orbital flight in 1961 as the first America

A large assortment of clothing and personal gear issued to Shepard while at the Naval Academy. Most of the gear issued bears either Shepard’s name ste

Collection of approximately 52 letters and a telegram sent to Shepard, all sent to Shepard while at the United States Naval Academy, almost all from f

Original, and most likely one-of-a-kind museum or contractor’s 1/4 scale precision model vintage 1961 Mercury-Redstone Space Capsule. Capsule measure

Cooper’s B-26-B,-C Pilot’s Amplified Check List, 4.5 x 7.5, bound by two staples at the top and dated “(Revised 22 July 1953).” A nine card check list

Terrific postal cover, postmarked February 20, 1962, Patrick Air Force Base in Florida, the date of Glenn’s launch, signed in ink by Alan Shepard, Gus

Commemorative cover with a cachet honoring the second man orbit shot of a missile fired from Cape Canaveral, signed vertically in blue and black ink,

Soft cover notebook entitled ‘Cruise Notes, Shepard, AB 1/c, 19th Div.,” 7 x 8.5, bearing a printed black felt tip signature to the bottom right corne

Series 1957 silver certificate one dollar bill, signed on the portrait side in blue ink by Alan B. Shepard, Donald K. Slayton, John H. Glenn, John ‘Sh