Apr 17, 2008 - Sale 2142

Sale 2142 - Lot 5

Price Realized: $ 3,600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000
Manuscript Meeting Notebooks. Six notebooks with over 725 pages of hand-written notes, 1954-1973. Several are from meetings with Dr. von Braun and other leading individuals. The notebooks from the 1950s record plans and problems associated with the Redstone, Juno, and Pershing rocket programs. One notebook has 15 pages of notes on meetings dealing only with the Saturn Project from 1956 through 1959; 3 have notes starting in 1960 and give a history of Saturn Program developments and problem solving, including flight schedule planning with possible use of the Nova Rocket. The final notebook contains Skylab issues addressed during the early 1970s and future ASTP plans. Standard Blank Books, vd

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This set of notebooks provides a rare opportunity to read the day by day activities of the NASA center that designed and developed the Saturn Rockets that enabled Man to land on the Moon.