Space Exploration
Space Exploration
Lot Closed
July 20, 06:31 PM GMT
Estimate
2,500 - 3,500 USD
Lot Details
Description
[Lunar Module]
NASA/Grumman Apollo Lunar Module. [Bethpage, NY: Grumman Aerospace Corporation, 1969]
8 x 10 in. Original printed wrappers, stapled at spine. 7 acetate sheets having color overlaying drawings of multiple LM structures and components. Small crease to top right corner of first
Front cover SIGNED and INSCRIBED in black and blue ink by an astronaut from each crewed Lunar Module flight:
"Walt Cunningham / APOLLO 7 LMP; James A. McDivitt - LM 3 / FIRST MANNED LM / APOLLO 9 ; Rusty Schwieckart / APOLLO 9 LM 3 ; Gene Cernan / APOLLO X - LM4 / APOLLO XVII - LM 12; Tom Stafford / LM - 4, Apollo X ; Buzz Aldrin / LM-5 APOLLO XI; Alan Bean / APOLLO 12 LM-6 ; Fred Haise / LM-7 Apollo 13 ; James Lovell LM-7 Apollo 13 ; Edgar Mitchell / LM 8 Apollo 14 ; Al Worden / LM-10 Apollo 15 ; Charlie M. Duke Jr. / LM-11 APOLLO 16"
Promotional pamphlet released by Grumman during the Apollo Program. Overlaying color schematics of the Lunar Module's 118 separate components are depicted on the front and back of each clear, acetate sheet. Each of the components—as well as a list of abbreviations used—are identified by a legend printed on the flap of the back cover.