FLOWN Apollo 14 Cloth Patch An approximately 4 inch oval sha

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ALAN SHEPARD, THE ONLY MERCURY ASTRONAUT TO WALK ON THE MOONFLOWN Apollo 14 Cloth Patch. An approximately 4-inch oval-shaped crew patch that is mounted on a Typed Letter Signed by Gordon Cooper. The patch features the astronaut symbol leaving from earth, headed toward the Moon, with a gold trail in its wake. NASA/MSC, 1971

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The patch was carried on the Apollo 14 flight, the third manned lunar landing mission. The letter reads in part: "Al never made it up to the rim of Cone Crater, but didn't do too bad considering he was the oldest man ever to walk on the moon! Alan Shepard was the only one of us Mercury guys to make a lunar flight and actually walk on the moon's surface. I had hoped to command the Apollo mission before his, but it just didn't work out that way."