posted 12-13-2016 05:44 PM               

A very interesting cover signed by a multitude of NASA legends from the early days of the space program. Listed below are the signatories with brief descriptions. 14 signatures altogether.

• Glynn Lunney - legendary flight director
  
• Max Faget - mercury capsule designer
  
• Jack King - the voice of Apollo
  
• Guenter Wendt - padleader
  
• John Houbolt - lead the team behind the lunar orbit rendezvous (LOR) mission mode
  
• Dee O'Hara - astronaut nurse
  
• James Van Allen - the Van Allen radiation belts were named after him, following their discovery by his Geiger–Müller tube instruments.
  
• Chris Kraft - NASA's first flight director
  
• Sam Beddingfield - Beddingfield retired from NASA in 1985 after a 26-year career with the nation's space agency. He joined NASA at the insistence of Gus Grissom and came to Florida in 1959 to help guide Project Mercury. He was among the first to work on the space shuttle at Kennedy Space Center in Florida and left the program as deputy director of shuttle operations.
  
• George H Ludwig - former chief research scientist for NASA satellite systems, director of operations for NOAA, and played a key role in adapting solid-state scientific research instruments for America's first satellites: Explorer I, II, and III
  
• Farouk Elbaz - assisted in the planning of scientific exploration of the Moon, including the selection of landing sites for the Apollo missions and the training of astronauts in lunar observations and photography
  
• Lee R. Scherer- director of NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center from Jan. 19, 1975 to Sept. 2, 1979.
  
• Rocco A. Petrone- third director of the NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, from 1973 to 1974. Petrone previously served as director of launch operations at NASA's Kennedy Space Center(KSC) from July 1966 until September 1969, and then as Apollo programdirector at NASA Headquarters.
• Jesco Von Puttkamer.