Apr 02, 2005 - Sale 2037

Sale 2037 - Lot 73

Price Realized: $ 2,530
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
Gordon Cooper's FLOWN Gemini 5 Sterling Silver Medallion featuring the mission emblem on the front and the mission dates of "August 21-29, 1965" engraved on the reverse. Approximately 1 inch diameter.Fliteline for NASA/MSC, 1965

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A Typed Letter Signed by Cooper states that the medallion was flown on Gemini 5 and is from his personal collection. "The eight days of Gemini 5 established a then world record for space flight endurance. Our flight placed the United States in the lead of manned space flight missions which carried us forward to the first lunar landing on July 20, 1969."