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Lot 179
Sale 6425 - American Historical Ephemera and Early Photography, including The Larry Ness Collection of Native American Photography
Part I - Lots 1-222
Oct 23, 2025
10:00AM ET
Part II - Lots 223-376
Oct 24, 2025
10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
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$1,140
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[SPACE EXPLORATION]. Gemini Spacecraft. Lithograph signed by Gemini and Mercury astronauts.
Gemini Spacecraft. Designed and built by McDonnell, St. Louis for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. 21 x 11 3/8 in. (sight) print with the signatures of 16 astronauts involved in Project Gemini, including:
Left column features the "Mercury Seven," the first astronauts selected for Project Mercury, including: Malcolm S. Carpenter, Leroy G. Cooper, Jr. (likely autopen), John H. Glenn, Jr., Virgil I. Grissom (possibly autopen), Walter M. Schirra, Jr. (possibly autopen), Alan B. Shepard, Jr. (secretarial), Donald K. Slayton (likely autopen).
Right column features the "New Nine," generally viewed as the original Gemini astronauts, including: Neil Armstrong (autopen), Frank Borman (possibly autopen), Charles Conrad Jr. (autopen), James A. Lovell, James A. Mcdivitt (autopen), Elliot M. See (autopen), Thomas P. Stafford (autopen), Edward H. White (possibly autopen), and John W. Young. Matted and framed, 28 1/2 x 19 in. overall.