BENDINI SILVIO and WERNHER VON BRAUN AND FRED WHIPPLE Moon M

Sale 1967 - Lot 276

Price Realized: $ 2,300

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500

INSCRIBED BY TEN ASTRONAUTS BENDINI, SILVIO and WERNHER VON BRAUN AND FRED WHIPPLE. Moon, Man's Greatest Adventure. Folio, cloth. first edition New York, 1973

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Perhaps the largest and certainly one of the most illustrated books on the Moon and general space exploration ever printed. Chronicles Man's fascination with the Moon and general astronomy with high quality photographs starting with Egyptian, Babylonian, then eventually to later European artifacts. Includes early scientific instruments, telescopes, and astronomical drawings. The Space Age is covered year by year from 1957 starting with Sputnik, and includes Gagarin's flight, the Mercury and Gemini Programs, unmanned lunar orbiters and landers, and then Apollo Program. The ultimate success of the first lunar landing, Apollo 11, makes up approximately one third of the book along with current scientific concepts of the Moon. Inscribed with their Mercury, Gemini, and/or Apollo mission number(s) by Buzz Aldrin, Alan Bean, Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, Walt Cunningham, Charlie Duke, Fred Haise, Edgar Mitchell, Wally Schirra, and Tom Stafford on the preliminary blank.