posted 08-07-2023 12:47 PM               

William K. Douglas was a colonel with the United States Air Force, the first Flight Surgeon for NASA during the Mercury Program, and later involved with McDonnell Douglas Aerospace. He passed away in 1998 and his family is now selling his personal collection of Military and NASA items.

This is a series of five auctions ranging in items from his travels while in the military to his NASA career to correspondence with various people. In these auctions you can find "Flown Items" (including an Apollo XIV patch worn on the moon by Alan Shepard), one of a kind historical documents (his personal journals while being the first flight surgeon), and even a John Glenn life mask made before his historical flight.

• Auction 1, 300 lots: Mon, July 31 - Thu, August 17
  
• Auction 2, 225 lots: Mon, July 31 - Thu, August 24
  
• Auction 3, 234 lots: Wed, August 2 - Thu, August 31
  
• Auction 4, 268 lots: Wed, August 2 - Thu, September 7
  
• Auction 5, 114 lots: Wed, August 2 - Thu, September 14

posted 08-07-2023 01:13 PM               

• John Glenn life mask (Auction 5, Lot 1)
  
• Harmonica flown on Aurora 7 (Auction 5, Lot 2)
  
• Gus Grissom flown Mercury dime (Auction 5, Lot 28)
  
• The medical case to ground Deke Slayton (Auction 5, Lot 50)
  
• Alan Shepard flown Apollo 14 patch (Auction 5, Lot 112)