Apr 17, 2008 - Sale 2142

Sale 2142 - Lot 175

Price Realized: $ 960
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,000
SIGNED BY NINE ASTRONAUTS AND ONE COSMONAUTVON BRAUN, WERNHER and FREDERICK I. ORDWAY, III. The History of Rocketry and Space Travel. A detailed account of the first 1,000 years of rocketry and an excellent historical account of manned space flight prior to the Apollo 1 fire. Approximately 9x12 inches and 244 pages. Limited edition leather bound release of the first edition with owner's name on cover and inscription on front end paper. New York, 1966

Additional Details

Inscribed with their Mercury, Gemini, and/or Apollo flight numbers and signed by Buzz Aldrin, Alan Bean, Gene Cernan, Walt Cunningham, Charles Duke, Fred Haise, Edgar Mitchell, Tom Stafford, and Al Worden on the half title page. Also signed by Aleksei Leonov with "Voshok 2" and "Soyz 19, ASTP" added.