Mar 31, 2007 - Sale 2109

Sale 2109 - Lot 25

Price Realized: $ 270
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
This New Ocean, A History of Project Mercury. A detailed narrative of the first United States manned space program. Covers initial planning, development tests of the spacecraft and launch vehicles, and the actual manned flights. Approximately 7x10 inches and 681 pages with a blue paper cover. NASA/GPO SP-4201, 1966

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Inscribed with their individual Mercury flight names and signed by Carpenter, Cooper, and Schirra on the half-title. Each has added "Mercury Astronaut" in his own hand.