Auction Date:2010 Dec 08 @ 19:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
TLS, one page, 8.5 x 11, Fairchild letterhead, July 24, 1973. Letter to air traffic controller Dennis Cooper, answering questions about Cooper’s wife’s uncle, Robert E. Ponsford. In part: “I cannot recall ever having met (or having argued) with a Mr. Robert E. Ponsford…The question of liquid vs. solid fuel is as old as rocketry. Both have found their niche: Minuteman and Polaris ICBM’s are solid fueled, Saturn moon rocket (and Atlas and Titans) are liquid fueled. I, myself, have been engaged mostly in liquid rockets, but this doesn’t mean I’m against solids. Maybe Mr. Ponsford had a ‘solid’ background, and outsiders concluded (wrongly) that consequently we must have been antagonists…Not having known Mr. Ponsford, I am unable to say whether he has not been given proper credit for his achievements.” In fine condition, with a few scattered light creases.
Brilliant content as von Braun, perhaps the most influential figure in the development of both German and US rocket technology during and after World War II, references his claim to fame. “The question of liquid vs. solid fuel is as old as rocketry,” he notes here before going on to reference Saturn moon rockets—the very launch vehicle he orchestrated. Ponsford, to whom von Braun denies having ever argued, was an assistant instructor in chemistry at San Diego State University at the time. Fabulous references to rockets and fuel types from the man who made it all work.
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