Lot 845
Early Shuttle Testing Exercises, ALT Crew Signed Photo and SMEAT Crew Signed Cover + Photo. Nice ALT (First Shuttle testing) including a crew signed 8 x 10" photo in front of Shuttle Enterprise by Gordon Fullerton, Fred Haise, Joe Engle and Richard Truly. Also included is a postcard signed by Haise and Irwin as well as an 8 x 10 color photo of Haise smirking at a NASA technician Guenter Wendt which is stamped on verso "From the Personal Collection of Mercury, Gemini and Apollo Pad Leader, Guenter Wendt". From the SMEAT (Skylab Medical Experiment Altitude Test). SMEAT certainly earned its reputation for testing, resourcefulness and pranks with their discovery of flaws among others in the urine handling system of SKYLAB which allowed the problem to be fixed, the removal of a tooth, and pretending they had a cat in the SMEAT chamber for the entire 50+ days. Both cover and photo signed by Bob Crippen, Karol Bobco and Bill Thornton. Estimate Value $400 - UP
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