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[i]I will comment. As secretary for the 7 Mercury astronauts at the Cape my main job in the beginning was to answer letters and request for signatures. I will say I never signed any astronaut name. I answered letters and put a photo with every letter so when an astronaut came to Cape, he personally signed each photo. I even have photos of them sitting at my desk doing that. After Mercury I transferred to Houston NASA headquarters and later to Ellington AFB when the new 9 astronauts and then later on sight at new manned Spacecraft Center when the Apollo guys came onboard. I moved up as Shepard’s Secretary when he became Chief. At that time we set up a “mailroom“ with several ladies who took care of answering letters. I am 82 now but as I remembers we had autograph stamps. Not sure when autopen came up. I never had Shepard ask me to sign his name. Guess all of that happened after I married in June 1965 and later left NASA.[/i]
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