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Certificate presented to Cooper by the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, one page, 10.25 x 15, April 30, 1962. The Chamber of Commerce’s “Grea

Carbon of Cooper’s form DD 771 military eyewear prescription, 5.25 x 8.5, dated December 12, 1973. Form provides Cooper’s eye information as well as p

Gordon Cooper’s personal copy of a Project Mercury background sheet, four pages, 8.5 x 11. Paper begins, “As progress in scientific programs is measur

Unsigned book: Project Mercury: A Chronology by James M. Grimwood. Washington, DC: NASA, 1963. Hardcover, 8.5 x 10.5, 238 pages. Rare NASA publication

Unsigned book: This New Ocean: A History of Project Mercury. Washington, DC: NASA, 1966. Hardcover, 7 x 10, 681 pages. NASA publication SP-4201 featur

Signed book: We Seven. First edition. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1962. Hardcover, 5.75 x 8.5, 473 pages. Signed in blue felt tip on the first free en...

Results of the Project Mercury Ballistic and Orbital Chimpanzee Flights booklet, NASA publication SP-39, 1963, 8 x 10.25, 71 pages, containing numerou

Commemorative cover with a cachet honoring the Mercury Seven, signed in blue and black ink, “Virgil I. Grissom,” “J. H. Glenn, Jr.,” “D. K. Slayton,”

Vintage ink and ballpoint signatures, “J. H. Glenn, Jr. ,” “Leroy G. Cooper, Jr.,” “M. Scott Carpenter,” and “Walter M. Schirra, Jr.” (adding a Mercur

Two items comprising of a gag coupon and fare payment for Cooper’s Mercury flight: a handwritten gag coupon, signed “G. F. Wendt, Proprietor,” 3 x 2,

Off-white envelope, 6.5 x 3.5, signed in blue and black ink, “Alan B. Shepard, Jr.,” “Walter M. Schirra, Jr.,” “John H. Glenn, Jr.,” “Virgil I. Grisso

DS , signed “Leroy G. Cooper, Jr.,” one page, 7.75 x 3.25, July 1, 1974. Cooper’s 1974 Colorado resident fishing license, filled out in another hand a

Rare Liberty Bell 7 launch cover with a cachet honoring the Project Mercury program, and canceled July 21, 1961, Patrick Air Force base, for Grissom...

Newsreel entitled “Return of a Hero” on a reel of black-and-white 35mm film, 7.25? in diameter, labeled on an exterior cardboard ring, “Universal Film

Vintage wooden model of a Mercury Redstone rocket, with detachable capsule, measuring 8.5? tall, complete with its square wooden base for an overall s

Cooper’s NASA pilot’s license, signed “Leroy G. Cooper, Jr.,” one page, 8 x 10.25, stamp-dated August 7, 1959, with a small clipped photo of Cooper af

Extremely rare original operations manual titled “Project Mercury Spacecraft 16 Flight Operations Manual,” contract NAS 5-59, basic date August 1, 196

Original color chart, 36 x 10, titled in the lower left, “Mercury Orbit Chart MOC-6. 1st Edition—February 1963, Published by the USAF,” picturing all

Two terrific photo displays: one 10.25 x 13 color photo of Gus Grissom, Alan Shepard, Deke Slayton, Scott Carpenter, Wally Schirra, John Glenn, and Go

Souvenir handwritten autobiographical statement entitled “Testimony of a Fortunate Man,” one page, 8.5 x 11, personal letterhead, no date. In part: “T