Apr 17, 2008 - Sale 2142

Sale 2142 - Lot 34

Price Realized: $ 480
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 350 - $ 500
Gordon Cooper's Mercury Time and Date Chart. A multi-colored plastic card with a center wheel section which allows the user set the time at one ground station and determine the time at another. A polar azimuthal projection (modified to show 360 degrees within 180 degrees) shows all Mercury ground stations and plots a three orbit ground track of a spacecraft. Approximately 5x4 inches with a Typed Signed Letter by Gordon Cooper providing additional details. Bell Telephone Labs/NASA, 1960
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The letter reads in part: "This little device was a fun item distributed by the ground network folks to allow quick time references between any two ground stations across the globe."