Oct 22, 2015 - Sale 2394

Sale 2394 - Lot 34

Price Realized: $ 325
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 350 - $ 500
(ASTRONAUTS--APOLLO-SOYUZ TEST PROJECT.) Group of 3 color Photographs Signed, by one or more ASTP prime crew members, in English and Russian. The first, NASA card commemorating the ASTP, showing reproductions of three photographs of the crew aboard the Apollo-Soyuz. Signed by Tom Stafford, Alexey Leonov, and Valeri Kubasov, in the image near the relevant portrait. The second, NASA press photo, showing a painting by Leonov in which the Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft are docked together with the Earth and sunrise in background. Signed by Stafford and Leonov in the blank upper margin. The third, NASA press photo, showing a cartoon by Leonov in which the three American prime crew members are wearing cowboy boots and riding the Apollo spacecraft above the words, "Where are they?" Signed by Leonov in the image. Each 8x10 inches overall; description printed on verso. Np, circa 1975

Additional Details

From the files of Anatole Forostenko, Chief Russian Language Instructor-Interpreter during the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project mission.