Lots 16 25 are the Property of Gordon Cooper Project Mercury

Sale 1967 - Lot 16

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Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000

ONE OF THE EARLIEST GROUP SIGNATURES Lots 16-25 are the Property of Gordon Cooper Project Mercury Brochure. NASA Brochure with photographs of the Mercury capsule during development and tests. Langley was the first NASA center where astronauts were based. 4 pages, 4to, illustrated wrappers. Langley Research Center, April 1959

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Signed vertically to the right of their respective pictures and exactly as: M. Scott Carpenter, Leroy G. Cooper Jr., John H. Glenn Jr., Virgil I. Grissom, Walter M. Schirra Jr., Alan B. Shepard Jr., and D. K. Slayton. With a Typed Letter Signed by Cooper giving additional details.
These autographs represent one of the earliest group signatures done by the Mercury astronauts after their selection by NASA in April 1959. A collective decision had been made by the seven to autograph a very limited number of this publication for their personal collections.