Mar 27, 2004 - Sale 2001

Sale 2001 - Lot 39

Price Realized: $ 172
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
GURNEY, GENE. Americans in Orbit, The Story of Project Mercury. Provides a short history of rocketry, space exploration, and Soviet Programs, with emphasis on astronaut training and tests. Covers events through John Glenn's orbital flight. Illustrated. Approximately 6x9 inches and 190 pages, cloth. New York: Random House/Landmark, 1962

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Inscribed with their individual Mercury flight name and signed by Carpenter, Cooper, and Schirra on the frontispiece of the astronauts next to a F-106 jet.