Lot 370
Mercury Program, 1959, Mercury Astronaut-Signed Lithograph (framed to 8x10", glued to card backing). Removed personally from the wall in Haney's den, this classic photo is signed by all of the Mercury astronauts including M. Scott Carpenter, Leroy Cooper, Jr, J. H. Glenn, Jr, Virgil I Grissom (very faded), Walter Schirra, Jr, Alan B Shepard, Jr (faded) and Donald K. Slayton (faded). Haney's typed description of the photo, on the glass of the frame reads: "Original seven astronauts reported for duty June 1959. This is First formal picture taken at Langley AFB late summer or early fall 1959. The lithograph is also signed by Robert Gilruth (Head of the Space Task Group and Walter c. Williams (Chief of the NACA High-Speed Flight Station which was absorbed into NASA on October 1, 1958). An important historic photo despite faults.
Estimated Value $350 - 500,
Ex. the Paul Haney Estate collection,
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