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Mercury Program
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Session I: Wednesday, January 15, 2014
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Estimate
1969-76 FOREIGN SATELLITE COVER
COLLECTION (x1100) ...................................... PH $1000-1500
Estimate
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Accumulation of 215 different event covers representing foreign
satellites and tests. Includes 70 different rocket & satellite
events from French Guyana, 145 different Australian rocket &
satellite events and several other balloon & research covers.
Exactly 5 covers of each event for total of 1,100 covers. Two
boxes where covers are separated by country and ordered. Very
fine to excellent condition.
1961 MR-3 ALAN SHEPARD SIGNED MERCURY
SPACESUIT PHOTO ............................................. PH $300-400
Kodak color glossy photo (8x10") signed by Mercury astronaut
Alan Shepard. Excellent condition.
OTHER
MERCURY PROGRAM
– FORERUNNERS –
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1963 RESULTS OF ORBITAL CHIMPANZEE
FLIGHTS BOOKLET ............................................ PH $200-300
Vintage orange booklet (8x10½”) titled ‘Results of the Project
Mercury Ballistic and Orbital Chimpanzee Flights’ from NASA,
SP-39, 71 pages of photos, illustrations and information. Very
nice condition and uncommon.
– MR-3 –
AUTOGRAPHS
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1961 MR-3 ALAN SHEPARD SIGNED MERCURY
SPACESUIT PHOTO ............................................. PH $300-400
Glossy high quality copy of an original NASA photo (8"x10")
showing Alan Shepard in his Mercury spacesuit, signed boldly
by Shepard. Very fine condition.
Saint Louis, Missouri
Space 1.pmd
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1961 LAKE CHAMPLAIN PRS COVER FOR
SHEPARD’S FLIGHT ........................................ PH $2000-3000
Rare prime recovery ship cover from the ‘USS Lake Champlain’
for Alan Shepard’s 15-minute, 22-second flight aboard MR-3.
A reporter aboard the ship advised that there were only 44
covers canceled upon the recovery of Shepard, there may have
been a few more from individuals aboard the ship. This cover
has the mimeographed cachet: ‘USS LAKE CHAMPLAIN
CVS-39 RECOVERY SHIP FROM THE FIRST U.S.
MANNED SPACE FLIGHT 5 MAY 1961’ and the U.S.S.LAKE
CHAMPLAIN dated handstamp cancellation of May 5, 1961.
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