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Description:
Project Mercury 7, NASA Scientists, Mercury Project Period, c. 1958, Four Photographs. 9 x 7 in. black-and-white photograph of Wernher von Braun and J.B. Medaris with models of the Saturn spacecraft; signed black-and-white photograph of Holger Toftoy; black-and-white 8 x 10 in. photograph of three leaders of American rocketry at an American Rocket Society dinner: William Holaday, Wernher von Braun, and John B. Medaris; [and] black-and-white 8 x 10 in. photograph of Haeussermann, Stuhlinger, and Froehlich inside the blockhouse, watching progress reports during the final stages of the countdown of a launch of Jupiter-C. (4)
Clocks, Watches & Scientific Instruments online
Estimate $100-150
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John B. Medaris, William HoladayJohn Dorfman
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Fine Books & Manuscripts
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