Goldberg Coins and Collectibles

Sale 111

The Manuscript & Collectibles Auction

Gemini Program

Lot	Photo	Description	Realized
Lot 899		Rare, Gemini Mission Control Center Badge, Property of Donald "Deke" Slayton, Flight Crew Operations. From the personal property of Flight Crew Operations, Donald "Deke" Slayton (1924-1993), who was responsible for making crew assignments, and determined which astronauts would fly on the Gemini and Apollo missions. Here his vintage original Gemini Mission Control Center badge with name "SLAYTON, D. K." Labeled "1" and measures 3¾ x 2¾ with clip on verso. Badge is excellent condition with just the slightest age discoloration and edge wear. On verso, standard warning of unathorized or counterfitting and if found, mail to: KSC, NASA GA4 Cocoa Beach, Fla. Comes with LOA. *Estimate Value $500 - UP* Loan Return From Exhibition at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $450
Lot 900		Gemini V: Original Flown Film From Magazine 3, Sleeve of Still Frame Signed by Command Pilot Gordon Cooper Plus Apollo Transparencies. Gemini V (8/21/65-8/29/65) : Original 70mm flown Ektachrome MS SO-217 film frame shot from a Hasselblad 500C 70 mm camera by Command Pilot Gordon Cooper and Pilot Pete Conrad as they circled the Earth. Sleeve has Gemini V, Mag. 3 (S-65-45710) written in one hand with Gordon Cooper's autograph in center. Also included are six (6) original 8 x 10" NASA transparancies all relating to the LEM or The Command Module all dated 11/16/65. All pieces are in excellent condition. *Estimate Value $250 - UP* View details and enlarged photo	Realized $250
Lot 901		Gemini Astronauts: Seven Signed Photos of the Period, Young, Borman, McDivitt, Schirra, Cooper, Cernan and Stafford. Gemini Astronauts; Seven signed * x 10" photos on images of the period, some being vintage original photos. As many of the Gemini Astronauts went on to fly on Apollo Missions, it's surprisingly difficult to find signed images during their Gemini years. This collection is for those who enjoy collecting from different programs: 1.) John Young signed photo of Gemini III and X; 2.) Jim McDivitt signed photo of Earth, Gemini IV.; 3.) Wally Schirra signing a fantastic photo from the Gemini program of a cafeteria meal and the freeze dried food packs just above image representing the meal, original NASA photo 5/25/1966; 4.) Gordon Cooper signed early 1960s portrait; 5.) Gene Cernan autographed and signed Gemini IX; 6.) Frank Borman portrait; and 7.) Tom Stafford portrait. All images in excellent condition. *Estimate Value $700 - UP* View details and enlarged photo	Realized $500
Lot 902		Gemini Astronaut Signed 4 and 5 Cent Stamp First Day Commemorative Card: Aldrin, Gordon, Collins, Cernan. United States "Space Accomplishments" First Day of Issue for 4 Cent and 5 Cent stamps on the occasion of The 9th Anniversary of NASA. Commemorative 8 x 10" US Postal card dated September 29, 1967 with small portraits of 5 Gemini Astronauts of which four are signed by: Buzz Aldrin, Dick Gordon, Michael Collins, and Gene Cernan. *Estimate Value $500 - UP* View details and enlarged photo	Realized $348
Lot 903		Project Gemini: Dick Gordon's Individual Flying Time Report, Signed Boldly and Quite Large as Richard T. Gordon Jr. An Individual Flying Time Report showing Pilot Activity Total Years and Fiscal Year by Aircraft Model. Report shows Gordon having flown a T-38A 118 hours in 77 flights and a T-33A 107 hours in 61 flights flights. Gordon signs as pilot and certifies correct. At bottom of report, Captain Alan Shepard has signed and reviewed for compliance with the minimum Annual Flying Requirements specified by OPNAV. Instructions however, his signature and date of 8/9/66, is a carbon. *Estimate Value $100 - UP* View details and enlarged photo	Realized $408
Lot 904		Project Gemini: Two Cans, 40 Rolled Strips of 70mm Original NASA Film Photos of Views of Earth From Space. A most unusual collection found in two vintage Eastman Kodak film cans. These are 70mm rolls of original NASA film photos taken on flights starting with Gemini V - Gemini XI, each marked what mission and which camera magazine. Some do have leaders that indicate the day taken, which also confirms which flights photos are taken. Impossible to unroll all the pieces of film and count how many images of Earth this collection contains, but know it's a large number. Many collectors/dealers take one 70mm film frame and mount in a presentation where the light can shine through and reveal the sky-blue-and-white gem we call home. 40 rolled pieces of film two over an inch thick. A fine trove from the historic Gemini Missions in 1965-1966. *Estimate Value $600 - UP* View details and enlarged photo	Realized $1,560
Lot 905		Terrific Collection from Project Mercury: Signed Photos by Cooper, Glenn and Shepard, Engineering Notes, Tracking Teletype & Orbital Map. Outstanding and scarce collection of 10 fine pieces from 1958-1963, the historic and storied years of Project Mercury and the Mercury 7 Astronauts. Included in this collection are 1.) Signed 6 x 4" black and white photo by Alan Shepard (1923-1998) taken on Launch Pad 5 on his way to being the first American in space written in fine point pen. 2.) Signed 8 x 10" color photo of John Glenn (1921-2016) dated 1989 3.) Two autographs by Gordon Cooper (1927-2004), one 8 x 10" black and white photo, one update to his biography sent to NASA. 4.) An orbital map dated 2/20/62 with flight notations as well as notes regarding the test flight of Enos(the chimpanzee); map unfolded is 11 x 33". 5.) Portion of tracking teletype printout (3 x 8") at the tracking station in the Canary Islands with COA and image of machine certified by Ken Havekotte. 7.) Small metal fragment from Launch Complex 5 gantry, the site of Alan Shepard's and Gus Grissom's launch sites with COA by Ken Havekotte. 8. & 9) Two 8 x 10 vintage photos of the Project Mercury Redstone Booster taking off, one color, one black and white. 10.) Original McDonnell Aircraft Corp's in-house papers (1958-early1960s) from one of the few original Mercury MAC design engineer task teams of formulating the spacecraft design. Everything in this collection is in excellent condition and a must for any level of collector. *Estimate Value $750 - UP* View details and enlarged photo	Realized $672
Lot 906		Mercury and Gemini: Terrific Ephemera, Some Flown, From NASA's Earliest Missions, Including Several Astronaut Autographs. Excellent collection from NASA's earliest missions; Mercury and Gemini, 1961-1966. 1.) FLOWN parachute segment of the Mercury Atlas 5 (spacecraft No. 9) that carried Enos the space chimp aboard. Segment is 1 x 2½" and mounted on COA prepared by Ken Havekotte which came from one of MA-5's orbital spaceflight team members. 2.) Mary Bubb, one of the first space journalists reporting on launches out of Cape Canaveral, Florida, handwritten note on Western Union Press Message about the flight with photo. 3.) Sheet of Project Mercury 4 cent postal stamps signed by John Glenn, Wally Schirra, Deke Slayton, and Gordon Cooper with a note card included also signed by John Glenn. As the stamps are dark blue, the signatures are very legible in close view but don't "pop" given the dark inks. 4.) US Post Office window decal for Project Mercury stamps. 5.) Deke Slayton Handwritten Papers while a student pilot and engineer at the USAF Experimental Flight School, experience which led him to be selected for Project Mercury in 1959 with COA by Ken Havekotte. From Gemini 1.) FLOWN GT-5 Checklist manual page grid from the onboard spacecraft's Reentry Flight Book mounted on COA by Ken Havekotte. 2.) Gemini Titan Launch Pad 19 segment of White Room Floor. The White Room structure was at top of the gantry that surrounded the Gemini spacecraft and it's Titan booster at Launch Pad 19 and the means for the astronauts to enter their spacecraft. 3.) Gene Cernan handwritten master's degree paper from 1962 at Naval Academy Post Graduate School who ultimately flew as pilot of Gemini 9A four years later and back-up pilot for Gemini 12. Comes with COA from Ken Havekotte. All eight (8) pieces are in excellent condition and present quite nicely. *Estimate Value $700 - UP* View details and enlarged photo	Realized $875
Lot 907		NASA (Early 1960's Era) Training/Research Milliken 16mm DBM 5C High Speed Camera System. NASA underwater training, early 1960s Milliken 16mm DBM 5C High Speed Camera System from Milliken (Now Teledyne) 64 to 200 frames per second and it is in amazing condition. Several stickers are attached to this camera including service sticker dates going back to 1987. Interior of camera is shockingly pristine but camera is untested. Unbelievably appealing bit of equipment with quite a bit of information available on the internet regarding camera including video. Evidently a much relied on line of equipment for NASA. NASA acquisiton tag reads $3200 We found an original ad for the camera and a copy will be included. *Estimate Value $800 - UP* View details and enlarged photo	Realized $780
Lot 908		Rare, Flown Gemini Fliteline Silver Medallions: The Complete Set From GT-3 to GT-12 Displayed in Lucite. From the Ed White II collection, one of only 24 rare sets of flown Gemini Fliteline medallions from Gemini 3 to Gemini 12. A beautiful and historical presentation of all ten flown Fliteline medals, one from each manned flight of the Gemini program. Eight are round and 25mm in diameter; one arrow shaped, the other rectangular (9 and 11). All are in matched silver tones with five (3,4,5,9,11) hallmarked sterling silver on verso. They are presented in a 3 x 7 x ¾" block of Lucite and then mounted to a wooden base, 8.5" x 3" x 0.75". Each medallion features the mission insignia on the obverse with engraved flight dates and other data on the reverse. All are in excellent condition and the display has also been beautifully kept. *Estimate Value $9,000 - UP* Ex. The Ed White II Collection, Goldberg Auctions September 18, 1999, Lot 485, Sold for $7700.00. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $10,800
Lot 909		Mercury, Gemini and Apollo Galaxy Mint Medal Sets, with All 3 Sets Still Sealed. From the Galaxy Mint Medal Series Sets all three issues in bronze, beautifully cast medals from their Mercury, Gemini and Apollo Series. The photo accompanying appears dull because these sets are still sealed as originally shipped. 28 medals total with fine relief. The Apollo Series is the "One Front", as originally issued (a later edition was issued with slight variations.) A rare opportunity to collect all three medal sets and in as pristine of condition as one could possible find. Read more about these medals at any of the space collecting websites. (Bonus medallion included from STS-86, Atlantis). *Estimate Value $600 - UP* View details and enlarged photo	Unsold