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stsmithva
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posted 07-18-2016 07:47 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for stsmithva   Click Here to Email stsmithva     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I've just spent several days giving my collection a thorough going-over, and it's time to part with some extras. (I count the autographs of 26 different astronauts from Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo missions; including some of the more rare ones like Jack Swigert, a Conrad signed picture on the moon, a Ron Evans signed WSS litho, Ted Freeman, Stuart Roosa, and Edward H. White II.)

Please take a look and let me know if you are interested in any of the following. All signed items come with a lifetime money-back guarantee of authenticity. If you buy two or more items, I'll offer a 10% discount off the total (maximum discount of $50). Shipping will be $6 Priority Mail for most items.

I'll include pictures of a few of them here, but just e-mail me for a nice high-resolution photo of any others you are interested in.

  • Aldrin, Buzz: signed picture of him standing on the lunar surface facing the flag. He added "Apollo XI". $225

  • Apollo 7 crew: signed cards, with collector's notation that Eisele's was signed in 1966. $95

  • Apollo 13 crew: signed cover of a 1970 program, with photos of Apollo within. Huge clear signatures of Lovell, Swigert and Haise. $475

  • SOLD Apollo 15 moonwalkers Scott and Irwin: signed postcard of Apollo 15 rover details, postmarked KSC 7/26/1971 (launch day). $75 SOLD

  • Apollo 16 crew: signed 3x5 card/ticket for a luncheon in their honor in May 1972 (just a month after their mission). $295

  • Apollo 17 crew (and Al Shepard): signed Apollo Honor Awards ceremony program. This event was on April 6, 1973 at the LBJ Space Center. The program is several pages of interested details (no cover). I think it's interesting that the signers represent the bookends of the early space program. There's Shepard, with his 1961 15-minute suborbital flight, and then there's the crew of the final Apollo mission. $275

  • Apollo 17 crew: signatures. Cernan signed an index card and added "Apollo XVII"; Evans and Schmitt both signed the same larger page. Would make a nice display, as shown, at a fraction of the cost of most Apollo 17 crew-signed items. $175.

  • Carpenter, Scott: signed vintage color business suit litho. Some spots of discoloration on the back not showing through to the front. $75

  • Carpenter, Scott: signed letter on his personal stationery, written in 1970, assuring a collector that "All photographs and letters bearing my signature have been personally signed by me." With original mailing envelope. $75

  • SOLD Conrad, Charles: signed black and white NASA litho, personalized and inscribed "with best wishes", of him on the moon working on Surveyor 3 with the lunar module in the background. One of my favorite lunar surface photos. $250 SOLD

  • Conrad, Charles: signed 1977 check. $75

  • SOLD Cunningham, Walt: collection of his items from the 1965 Apollo astronauts training expedition to Iceland. You can read a lot about this trip online; I like the fact that Cunningham, Schweickart, and Schmitt went back together on the 50th anniversary last year. I am offering the large certificate of welcome that was given to Cunningham on the original trip (see his later signature down there?), six 1960 Air Force aerial photographs given to Cunningham and the other astronauts to help them get their bearings (just as photos of the moon's surface would help the astronauts a few years later), and a booklet about the geography of Iceland, on which Cunningham wrote at the time "7-10-65 -- 7-17-65." He also drew cross-sections of a volcano and other landforms on the back cover. $95 SOLD

stsmithva
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  • Evans, Ron: inscribed WSS litho. A couple of condition issues. $150

  • Freeman, Theodore: signed 1961 document requesting 30 days of leave from Edwards Air Force Base for a family vacation in Hawaii. He signed in full, then later wrote at the top "I took 12 (twelve) days of this." $295

  • Glenn, John: signed 1978 Senate memo, with one of his business cards. $75

  • Irwin, Jim: inscribed litho of him on the lunar surface with the usual printed "His love from the moon"; he added "Harry." $75

  • Irwin, Jim: inscribed litho of him on the lunar surface, but this one does not have the usual printed "His love from the moon." Instead Irwin hand-wrote, "Michael / Reach for your dreams - aim high!") $95

  • Irwin, Jim: signed check. $40

  • Irwin, Jim: signed pamphlet with his WSS photo, NOT inscribed like 95% of Irwin signed pictures are. $75

  • Mattingly, Ken: signed Apollo 16 launch cover. Postmarked in Australia. Melbourne rules! $75

  • McDivitt, James A.: typed 1970 NASA letter as Manager, Apollo Spacecraft Program. Tells someone he does not charge for autographs; returns the dollar suggesting it be donated to his church. Left margin has small stains and partial hole punches. $75

  • Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, shuttle astronauts: multi-signed book. Entitled simply "Space Travel", it is a fine hardcover with hundreds of photos and illustrations about the past, present, and future of space exploration. It is signed by representatives of five U.S. space programs: Wally Schirra (Mercury, Gemini and Apollo), Dave Scott (Gemini and Apollo), Walt Cunningham and Rusty Schweickart (Apollo), and Jack Lousma (Skylab and the space shuttle). It is also signed by people who did interesting Earthbound things: pad leader Guenter Wendt, Apollo EECOM Sy Liebergot, and Ed Buckbee, the founder of Space Camp. All except Schirra added their missions or titles. $195

stsmithva
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posted 07-18-2016 07:49 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for stsmithva   Click Here to Email stsmithva     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
  • Rockwell, Norman: signed framed print of "Apollo and Beyond." I left out, for a future post, a number of non-astronaut people who contributed to the space program. But I thought I'd include this one.

    In 1969, beloved American artist Norman Rockwell created a 28.5 x 66 inch oil painting that was published in the July 15, 1969 edition of Look magazine. It accompanied an article written by science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke, and pictured the Apollo 11 and Apollo 8 crew of astronauts, as well as well-known NASA personnel, and some of the 400,000 less-known people who worked on the Apollo program. Days after the magazine was published, the Apollo 11 lunar module landed on the moon.

    Today the painting is in the collection of the National Air and Space Museum.

    I am offering an original three-page magazine print of the painting, hand-signed by Norman Rockwell in blue ink in the lower right-hand corner. (The signature was written above the red "signature" that was part of the original painting. He also added "Sincerely." I'll send you a close-up if you like.)

    It was attractively framed with red, white and blue mattes. The magazine pages were not in the best condition before it was framed, and there are some folds and some separation between two of the pages. Still a wonderful item for anyone interested in the space program and/or American art. Unfortunately, I'll have to charge something like $50 for shipping. $275

  • Roosa, Stuart O.: inscribed WSS litho portrait. $250

  • Schmitt, Jack: signed typed 1979 letter on his "Harrison Schmitt" U.S. Senate stationery; signed "Jack." Merry Christmas wishes to a congressman. $75

  • SOLD Schweickart, Rusty: signed poem flown in space on Apollo 9. Originally sold with several other such papers at a Heritage auction. The buyer offered separate ones on CollectSPACE several years ago, when I got this one. A wonderfully unique item: how many Apollo-flown love poems can be out there? $350 SOLD

stsmithva
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posted 07-18-2016 07:50 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for stsmithva   Click Here to Email stsmithva     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
  • SOLD Stafford, General Tom: signed Apollo-Soyuz "Joint Operations Checklist" booklet, printed August 1974 and used during training. This is a fantastic item, with about fifty pages covering was the American crew would do during the part of the mission they were interacting with the Soviet spacecraft and crew. Contents include "Apollo Active Docking", "Apollo Active Docked Attitude Maneuver" "TV Special Events", "Waste Management", and several scientific experiments. At the top of the cover is a handwritten "FAO", so at some point the Flight Activities Officer in charge of checklists, procedures, etc. had it for some reason.

    Stafford inscribed it on the front cover "To Anatole / Thanks for your great help / General Tom Stafford." That's Anatole Forostenko, the main Russian language instructor to work with the astronauts. Stafford mentions him in his book "We Have Capture" ("... I also said I would need Anatole Forostenko with me...") and he appears several times in the official history of ASTP.

    (I was the top bidder recently on a lot that included this and a similar item, and I can't quite afford to keep both.) $250 SOLD

  • Skylab 4 crew AND backup crew (Brand, Lind, Lenoir): signed launch day cover. A cover signed by the Skylab 4 crew recently sold at auction for $122. This one has a small discolored patch on the autographs of Pogue and Brand, so it is only $95. (I tried erasing it and that didn't work; maybe you know of something else to try.)

  • SOLD White, Edward H. II: signed GT-4 launch day cover, with a pretty good attempt at illustrating both White during his EVA and the spacecraft. A cover for an Earthbound event signed by White sold for $481, while a GT-4 cover signed by him sold for $601. $475 SOLD

  • SOLD (well, AWARDED) Worden, Al: signed poem. This is one of the nicely printed poems about spaceflight, by Worden, that were included with signed copies of his book from Farthest Reaches. I bought two books to give one as a present, but kept the extra poem. As a reward for being the first to read this list to the end, if you'd like it just send me $6 for postage and it's yours!

onesmallstep
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posted 07-18-2016 08:36 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for onesmallstep   Click Here to Email onesmallstep     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Nice items! How much for the Walt Cunningham Iceland training expedition lot?

fredtrav
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posted 07-18-2016 08:40 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for fredtrav   Click Here to Email fredtrav     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I assume I am not the first, but if I am, I will take the Worden poem. Will have to look at finances and see what I can do on another item or two.

stsmithva
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posted 07-18-2016 08:55 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for stsmithva   Click Here to Email stsmithva     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Oops, forgot to write the price for the Cunningham set. I've gone and added it: $95.

Fred, the Worden signed poem is yours!

stsmithva
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posted 08-25-2016 09:31 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for stsmithva   Click Here to Email stsmithva     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Just thought I'd bump this post up to see if anyone is interested in any unsold items.

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