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Original engine start button from Atlas launch vehicle No. 107-D used to send Carpenter’s Aurora 7 spacecraft into orbit for his MA-7 mission on May 2

Flown Masonic flag, carried on board Faith 7 by astronaut and Freemason Gordon Cooper during his spaceflight on May 15–16, 1963. Blue flag measures 15

Color 10 x 8 NASA photo of the Mercury astronauts posing in front of an Air Force jet at Langley on January 20, 1961, signed vertically in blue and bl

Majestic color glossy 20 x 16 photo of the Earth, signed in black felt tip by Alan Shepard, Deke Slayton, Scott Carpenter, John Glenn, Gordon Cooper,

Vintage glossy 8 x 9.75 NASA photo of Grissom in a jacket and tie, with a Mercury-Atlas rocket in the background, signed in blue ballpoint, “Virgil I.

Color satin-finish 16.25 x 20.25 photo of Carpenter’s Mercury launch, signed in black felt tip, “Scott Carpenter, Aurora 7.” In very fine condition. A

Color vintage glossy 15 x 19 photo of a Mercury-Atlas launch, signed and inscribed in ink, “Best regards to Mim and Johnny Williams—J. H. Glenn, Jr.,”

Color glossy 14 x 11 doubleweight photo of the Mercury astronauts posing in front of an F-102 Air Force jet, signed in black felt tip by Scott Carpent

ALS signed “Scott,” two pages both sides, 6 x 8, July 31, 1964. Letter to Leo. In part: “You are pretty current on my present interest. Although I got

ALS, one page, 8.5 x 11, personal letterhead, April 28, 2001. Letter describing his early career. In part: “I was assigned to the Space Task Group in