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| LIST ID | ITEM ID | PRICE | CANCEL DATE | CANCEL LOC |
| AU3B | G003A | $20.00 | 05/05/1971 | K |
| 10th ANNIVERSARY PROJECT MERCURY/SHEPARD FLIGHT, DR. ASHTON GRAYBIEL AUTOGRAPHED COVER, Kennedy Space Center FL pictorial space machine cancel, on a 6 cent Flag stamp. With blue & red HERITAGE CRAFTS printed cachet (identified) for Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr.'s "Freedom 7" Mercury Flight, May 5, 1961 & his Apollo 14 flight, shows Shepard, the Mercury/Redstone rocket, the Apollo/Saturn rocket, the Mercury symbol & astronaut wings, with printed text that reads in part: "America's First Astronaut, Freedom 7/Apollo 14, John F. Kennedy Space Center". Cover autographed & inscribed: "A. Graybiel, Space Medicine Advisory Group". (A pioneer in Space Medicine, he helped prepare America's early astronauts for for the Mercury Program. He helped design and conduct parabolic flight experiments to create short periods of weightlessness. His studies provided information about the ability of humans to live and function in space. Graybiel died in 1995). | ||||
| AU3B | G004A | $15.00 | 11/14/1969 | H |
| APOLLO 12 LAUNCH, GERALD D. GRIFFIN AUTOGRAPHED COVER, Houston TX machine cancel, on a 10 cent Apollo 11 Man on Moon stamp (#C76). With black return address of: "PAO Information Services, AP5, NASA Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston Texas 77058", & a rubber stamp cachet (unidentified) showing the Apollo 12 emblem. Cover autographed & inscribed: "Gerald D. Griffin, Flight Director". (Griffin began working in the space program in 1960, and was flight Director for all 11 of the Apollo manned missions, he later became Director of the NASA Johnson Space Center Houston TX 1982-1986). IMAGE | ||||
| AU3B | H001 | $10.00 | 06/12/1973 | |
| COPERNICUS SLOGAN CANCEL, DONALD S. HALL, ASTRONOMER, AUTOGRAPHED COVER & POSTCARD, U.S. Postal Service MA 021 (Boston MA), June 12, 1973 machine slogan cancel, clearly readable: "Nikolaj Kopernik 500th Anniversary 1473-1973", on an 8 cent Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomer stamp (#1488) & 5 cent "The Sciences" stamp. With a red all purpose Centennial printed cachet (unidentified) that shows a rocket launch and the NASA logo. Cover autographed & inscribed: "Astronomy is the least known of the sciences. We try to change that. Donald S. Hall Strasenburgh Planetarium". (Dr. Donald S. Hall, is the Director, Strasenburgh Planetarium, Rochester, New York; & Past President, International Planetarium Society). Also included with this cover is a Strasenburgh Planetarium postcard signed & inscribed by this astronomer and author. IMAGE | ||||
| AU3B | J001A | $15.00 | 11/14/1969 | H |
| APOLLO 12 LAUNCH, DR. CLARENCE A. JERNIGAN AUTOGRAPHED COVER, Houston TX machine cancel, on a 6 cent Apollo 8 Moon stamp (#1371). With black return address of: "PAO Information Services, AP5, NASA Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston Texas 77058", & a rubber stamp cachet (unidentified) showing the Apollo 12 emblem. Cover autographed: "Clarence A. Jernigan, MD". (Jernigan was the Flight Surgeon and was aboard the recovery ship for Apollo 12. As the Apollo 12 crew flight surgeon, he was in quarantine with the crew for 21 days. He later accompanied the Apollo 12 crew on their around-the-world good will tour to 25 countries). IMAGE | ||||
| AU3B | K003A | $40.00 | 02/20/1962 | C |
| PROJECT MERCURY FDC, EUGENE KRANZ & KENNETH KLEINKNECHT AUTOGRAPHED COVER, , Cape Canaveral FL, Feb. 20, 1962 first day of issue machine cancel on a 4 cent Project Mercury stamp (#1193) showing the Mercury space capsule orbiting earth, This is a first day cover for astronaut John Glenn MA-6 flight . With a black rubber stamp cachet (unidentified) that shows a large NASA emblem. Cover autographed and inscribed: "Eugene Kranz, Mission Control Center", (Kranz was Mission Control Procedures Officer for the Mercury space through the MA-6 flight. He was in charge of integrating Mercury Control with the Launch Control Team at Cape Canaveral, Florida plus other duties), 2nd autograph and inscription: "Kenneth S. Kleinknecht, Manager, Mercury Project." (Kleinknecht is now deceased. Both are early signatures of two important men of the Project Mercury Team). IMAGE | ||||
| AU3B | M003A | $10.00 | 01/15/1974 | |
| COMET KOHOUTEK, DR. STEVE MARAN AUTOGRAPHED COVER, , Greenbelt MD, Jan. 15, 1974 machine cancel on an 3 cent Palomar Observatory stamp (#966) & 7 cent Ben Franklin stamp. With a blue GSFC rubber stamp cachet (identified on back of cover), cachet shows a comet in orbit around the sun and various space satellites, with text: "Operation Kohoutek, Goddard Space Flight Center." Cover autographed and inscribed: "S. Maran, Manager Operation Kohoutek", (Dr. Steve Maran is a astronomer and scientist who worked at the Goddard Space Flight Center when this cover was signed, specializing in comets, pulsars, variable stars, stellar coronae, planetary nebulae, and active galactic nuclei. He held the title of Assistant Director of Space Sciences for Information and Outreach before he retired). | ||||
| AU3B | S001A | $20.00 | 05/05/1971 | K |
| 10th ANNIVERSARY PROJECT MERCURY/SHEPARD FLIGHT, JOE W. SCHMITT AUTOGRAPHED COVER, Kennedy Space Center FL pictorial space machine cancel, on a 6 cent Flag stamp. With blue & red HERITAGE CRAFTS printed cachet (identified) for Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr.'s "Freedom 7" Mercury Flight, May 5, 1961 & his Apollo 14 flight, shows Shepard, the Mercury/Redstone rocket, the Apollo/Saturn rocket, the Mercury symbol & astronaut wings, with printed text that reads in part: "America's First Astronaut, Freedom 7/Apollo 14, John F. Kennedy Space Center". Cover autographed & inscribed: "Joe W. Schmitt, (Suit Technician)". (Mr. Schmitt was the person who assisted the astronauts into their pressure suit & performed other duties that the astronaut could not do while in the suit. He was the last person to see Shepard before the hatch was closed before launch). | ||||
| AU3B | S002A | $20.00 | 05/05/1971 | K |
| 10th ANNIVERSARY PROJECT MERCURY/SHEPARD FLIGHT, SCOTT SIMPKINSON AUTOGRAPHED COVER, Kennedy Space Center FL pictorial space machine cancel, on a 6 cent Flag stamp. With blue & red HERITAGE CRAFTS printed cachet (identified) for Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr.'s "Freedom 7" Mercury Flight, May 5, 1961 & his Apollo 14 flight, shows Shepard, the Mercury/Redstone rocket, the Apollo/Saturn rocket, the Mercury symbol & astronaut wings, with printed text that reads in part: "America's First Astronaut, Freedom 7/Apollo 14, John F. Kennedy Space Center". Cover autographed: "Scott Simpkinson". Underneath his name he typed: "Chief, Launch Operations, Manager, Capsule Operations, and Launch Capsule Test Conductor." (He was involved in managing the Cape Canaveral Operations during Project Mercury). | ||||
| AU3B | T001 | $8.00 | 07/24/1974 | DC |
| 20th ANNIVERSARY OF FIRST MOON BOUNCE VOICE COMMUNICATIONS, JAMES TREXLER AUTOGRAPHED COVER, Washington DC, Smithsonian Sta. pictorial hand cancel, July 24, 1974 on an 8 cent Skylab space stamp (#1529). With a brown Naval Research Laboratory printed cachet that shows a diagram of a signal being bounced from the moon to a tracking antenna, with text: "20th Anniversary of Moon-Bounce Voice Communication, 24th July 1954, Stump Neck MD, Naval Research Laboratory". Cover is autographed: "James Trexler". (Trexler was the NRL radio engineer who spoke into the project microphone and his voice signal travelled to the moon and back withing 2-1/2 seconds....a round-trip voice signal of nearly 500,000 miles). Cover comes with an illustrated and printed insert about this historic event and other important firsts relative to "Project Moon Bounce". IMAGE | ||||
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