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Topic: Bonhams Oct. 15: von Braun's sketches and letters for Collier's magazine

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Message to Edit: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	Originally posted by Robert Pearlman on 10-10-2008 11:24 AM Huntsville Times: [URL=http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/local.ssf?/base/news/1223630155155370.xml&coll=1]Von Braun drawings will be up for auction[/URL] <BLOCKQUOTE>[i]Dr. Wernher von Braun's early blueprints for space exploration will be up for bid at a prestigious New York auction house next week. Drawings of space ships, satellites and advanced computer controls - all signed by von Braun - will be auctioned at the London-based Bonhams New York location beginning at 9 a.m. Wednesday. ...Fred Ordway of Huntsville, who worked on spaceship design with von Braun in the 1950s, said the Collier's series attracted a lot of attention then, and is still referenced by space enthusiasts. "There is no doubt in my mind it helped fan the flames of imagination for space exploration. You can see the linear progression from Collier's, to Sputnik, to John F. Kennedy's announcement about landing a man on the moon," Ordway said. "It certainly had a great deal of impact on reality and fiction."[/i]</BLOCKQUOTE>
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