Lot 217
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[APOLLO PROGRAM]. "MAN'S GREATEST ADVENTURE," SIGNED BY SHEPARD, ALDRIN, HAISE, MITCHELL, AND STAFFORD

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Description

  • FORWARD BY APOLLO 8 AND 13 ASTRONAUT JAMES LOVELL
ALLEN, LAWRENCE. Man’s Greatest Adventure. Selah, Washington: BRM Selah Corporation, 1974. 128 pp. 13.75 by 10.5 inches. Cloth with dust jacket.

Catalogue Note

SIGNED by ALAN SHEPARD. SIGNED and INSCRIBED: “BUZZ ALDRIN, Gemini XII, Apollo XI; FRED HAISE, Apollo 13; EDGAR MITCHELL, Apollo 14 and TOM STAFFORD, Gemini 6, 9, Apollo 10, ASTP,” all on the half-title page. Numerous photographs are used from NASA archives and North American Rockwell, the Command / Service Module prime contractor. Multiple images and diagrams are used to describe the Apollo flights to the Moon. Particular emphasis is on the Apollo 11 flight of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins, having over 30 pages of photographs on all phases of the flight. The remaining 50 plus pages describe and illustrate the flights of Apollo 12 through 17.