Feb 17, 2022 - Sale 2595

Sale 2595 - Lot 19

Price Realized: $ 438
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(ASTRONAUTS.) MCCANDLESS II, BRUCE. Two color Photographs Signed and Inscribed, each half-length portraits by NASA showing him in profile in the Manned Maneuvering Unit. The first, "For Ed -- / With appreciation & / best wishes / Bruce McCandless II / S.T.S. - 41B." The second, "For Judith -- / With best wishes / Bruce McCandless II / STS - 11/41-B." Each signed diagonally in the image at lower left. Each 10x8 inches; remnants of prior mounting at corners verso of first, NASA information printed on verso. Np, nd

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With--Group of 5 items, unsigned, each featuring the MMU: A Nice Flying Machine. Martin Marietta publicity booklet with color illustrations featuring the MMU, unsigned. 28 pages. 4to, embossed stiff wrappers, staple binding. Martin Marietta, 1985 • Photograph, showing McCandless manipulating the hand controllers of the MMU #2 at Martin Marietta (now Lockheed Martin) near Denver, CO. 1980s • Tie pin • Brass belt buckle o Brass two-sided medal.