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Project Mercury 7 Astronauts, Signed Photograph. Black-and-white 9 1/2 x 7 in. photograph of the seven Mercury astronauts seated and standing in jackets and ties, holding a model of the Mercury 7 spacecraft: Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, Scott Carpenter, Walter Schirra, Donald Slayton, John Glenn, and Leroy Gordon Cooper, signatures in the blank margin at the foot of the image, signed in different pens, all with the early versions of their signatures.
The Rudolf Spoor Collection of NASA Photographs and Ephemera
Estimate $2,000-3,000
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John Glenn, Walter Schirra, Leroy Gordon Cooper, Donald SlaytonJohn Dorfman
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