Mar 31, 2007 - Sale 2109

Sale 2109 - Lot 153

Price Realized: $ 612
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
Guenter Wendt's Apollo 15 Beta Emblem. An approximately 4-inch circular crew emblem displayed between two paragraphs of a Typed Letter Signed by Guenter Wendt. NASA, nd

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Wendt wore this emblem on his launch pad garment during test preparations for and the actual launch of Apollo 15. He was stationed in the "white room" at the end of swing arm number 9 at the 320 foot level of the launch tower. Wendt and his launch crew were primarily responsible for astronaut entry, check-out, and hatch closing of the spacecraft. He was the pad close-out leader for all actual manned launches during Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and Skylab.