Apr 17, 2008 - Sale 2142

Sale 2142 - Lot 43

Price Realized: $ 270
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 350 - $ 500
SIGNED BY THREE MERCURY ASTRONAUTS 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. Signed by three Mercury Astronauts. NASA/GPO SP-4201, 1966

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Inscribed and signed on the half-title page: "Mercury Seven Astronaut Gordon Cooper, Faith 7; Mercury Astronaut Scott Carpenter, Aurora 7; Mercury Astronaut Wally Schirra, E (sigma) 7."