Auction: Discovery - 2616MLocation: MarlboroughDate / Time: October 10, 2012 2:00PM
Description:
Eleven Autographed Portrait Photograph Prints of the First Sixteen NASA Astronautsto Join the Manned Spacecraft Center Training Program, c. 1964, Frank Borman, Scott Carpenter, Charles Conrad, Gordon Cooper, Gus Grissom, James Lovell, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard, Dick Slayton, Thomas P. Stafford, and John Young, in black marking pen, along with a February 9, 1963 group photograph with NASA official stamp date and description on reverse, unframed.
Provenance: From the archive of Gerald Feldmann (1927-2010),for seven years the personnel director for David Clark Co., Worcester, Massachusetts, where he helped establish the NASA Mercury and Gemini space training programs. The David Clark Co. continues to design, develop, and manufacture protective air and space crew suits and equipment.
Estimate $2,000-3,000
Keywords
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, John Young, Scott Carpenter, Thomas P. Stafford, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard, Charles Conrad, Dick Slayton, Frank Borman, Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, Gus Grissom, James Lovell, David Clark Co., Gemini, Massachusetts, personnel director, Gerald Feldmann