posted 03-26-2014 09:21 AM               

Our 500+ item auction covers all eras of aviation and the space race, from the Wright Brothers all the way through Columbia STS-107.

We will be offering several stellar pieces, including:

• Apollo 15 Command Module Falcon's rotational hand controller used to land at the Hadley-Apennine, from Scott's personal collection

• Buzz Aldrin's right-handed glove liner, worn by him on the lunar surface during the Apollo 11 mission.

• Flown Crewman Optical Alignment Sight (COAS), flown to the surface of the moon on board Apollo 15.

• An incredibly rare and fully intact Block I fuel cell and electrical systems instrument panel.

Join us in May to witness continued RR Auction record-shattering results!

posted 04-25-2014 09:40 AM               

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A full preview will be online by April 25.

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posted 04-25-2014 12:39 PM               

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Originally posted by rjurek349:
I am really excited to see lot #138, the flown $2 bills from GT5.

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posted 04-25-2014 05:33 PM               

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Originally posted by Greggy_D:
Rich, is this the first time you've seen cut $2 bills where one half was flown?

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posted 05-08-2014 06:37 PM               

If you're a space geek gamer looking for the ultimate joystick, then feast your eyes on the Apollo 15 "attitude controller assembly" - the stick used by commander David R. Scott to land the Falcon lunar module on the Moon in 1971, and which goes under the hammer later this month.

posted 05-09-2014 05:26 AM               

His unit, intact with cable connectors included, came from LM-10/Falcon, as he told me, with Scott keeping his own.

I don't think any LM-rotational controllers came back from Apollos 9 and 10 as Robert has indicated, however, I have not heard of a retrieved ACA from Apollo 11's LM-5/Eagle as I don't think LMP-Aldrin ever reported keeping his own. If Aldrin didn't keep his, it would seem likely that Armstrong did not as well.

As for Apollo 12, if I am not mistaken, both ACAs from LM-6 were disconnected and returned back to Earth.

For Apollo 13, I am not sure about the lunar lander rotational controllers, but I did see one of the armrest units dismantled from LM-7/Aquarius and presented by the astronaut crew to the launch team and work force at Kennedy Space Center.

It would seem unlikely to me that any of the attitude controller assemblies were disconnected from Aquarius, but Lovell and Haise could be asked (I'll do so, unless someone already has the answer to that question).

posted 05-09-2014 06:10 AM               

One of the first Pete Conrad-released flown mission patches from Gemini 5 is up for auction!

Conrad reported more than 25 years ago that only a handful of cloth patches with the visible slogan, "8 Days or Bust," were carried aboard by him and Command Pilot Gordon Cooper during GT-5's record-breaking manned spaceflight in Aug. 1965.

The Cooper/Conrad patch for the third manned Gemini spaceflight became the first astronaut mission patch ever — and flown aboard in space!

posted 05-15-2014 02:46 PM               

• Lot 361. Apollo 12 Crew Signed Photo
  The photo shows the Apollo 14 LM, Antares and not the Apollo 12 LM, Intrepid

• Lot 491. Gene Cernan signed photo
  The photo shows Harrison Schmitt, not Gene Cernan

posted 05-15-2014 03:36 PM               

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For a brief moment you can 'own' a stunning collection of space artifacts at their opening prices.

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posted 05-22-2014 08:50 AM            

What puzzles me is, that this particular patch of the line (to Stephen T. Dunham) has been auctioned separately on RR Auction in 2012. That means that the line-piece referred to in the photo is (most likely) not the one the seller is now offering together with the photo.

The only explanation could be that Shepard presented a different piece of the line to Ken Havekotte, who later sold the photograph separately and the current buyer got hold of another line-piece and has now "repackaged" everything. Either that, or the photograph might be dodgy.

Does anyone know what to make of it?

posted 05-22-2014 09:11 AM            

So it's either a picture from another auction (and they used it as a stock photo, although I do not believe it) or there have indeed been more cards issued to Stephen Dunham. I still wonder though, why Alan Shepard would present a line-patch, that was obviously intended for someone else in this way. Did he buy it to give it away as a gift? Or is it more likely that Ken Havekotte asked Alan to sign this photo as a sort of "certificate of authenticity". But I guess only Ken would be able to answer that question.

posted 05-22-2014 03:00 PM               

When Admiral Shepard signed the litho of him on the lunar surface to me, he was well aware, knew of, and saw that I had a few of the NASA-issued wallet-size laminated cards that contained a cut piece of Apollo 14's flown lunar surface safety line.

Shepard was only certifying on the picture, so-to-speak, that my card--showed to him during a private signing with me at the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in Titusville, FL,--was indeed an original card, even though, it had the typed-in name of a NASA employee on one side of it.

It was one of three special inscriptions that America's first spaceman and Apollo 14 commander/moonwalker did for me as a personal favor. But this is the only photograph of this type that Shepard signed/inscribed in such a special way to me that contained a longer notation than the other two photos that we did.

Of the two other NASA lithos, which depicted the lunar explorer standing by the U.S. flag while on the moon, Shepard wrote on them a brief reference about the lunar surface safety line cards.

One of the two flag photo-cards was given to veteran NBC aerospace correspondent Jay Barbree, while the second, I have kept myself.