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Project Mercury 7 Astronauts, Signed NASA Periodical: Project Mercury [and] Official NASA Photograph. Project Mercury publication, black-and-white illustrated bifolium news sheet, published by NASA in April, 1959, with photographs of the Mercury 7 astronauts on the front cover, each signed beside his portrait in blue ballpoint pen; [and] black-and-white 8 x 10 in. photograph of Carpenter, Cooper, Glenn, Grissom, Schirra, Shepard, and Slayton posing in front of an Air Force F-106B aircraft during training for space flights, with NASA caption on verso, and other markings, including a Press Section rubber stamp, photo 62-1996. (2)
The Rudolf Spoor Collection of NASA Photographs and Ephemera
Estimate $400-600
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