This official NASA photograph is a crew photo of the ill-fated Challenger mission
STS-51L, which exploded in midair on January 28, 1986 and was the deadliest accident
in NASA history until the destruction of the Columbia in 2003. This rare photograph
contains the signatures of all seven crewmembers of STS-51L, who are shown in flight
suits and holding their helmets
Printed Photograph Signed in Ink: "Mike Smith", "Dick/ Scobee", "Ron McNair", "El
Onizuka", "S. Christa/McAuliffe", "Greg/Jarvis", "Judy/ Resnik". Color, 10x8.
Captioned: "Crew of Space Shuttle/ Mission 51-L. This photograph is an official NASA
crew photo of the ill-fated Challenger mission STS-51L. It contains the signatures of all
seven crewmembers, including teacher Christa McAuliffe, who died when the space
shuttle exploded 73 seconds after launch. The recipient of this photo, Dot Davis, worked
with the Challenger crew at the Johnson Space Center. Accompanied by: A letter of
provenance from Davis noting that the Challenger crew signed this photo in quarantine at the
Kennedy Space Center's while awaiting their launch.…"
Collection framed to an overall size of 42x28. Four of the astronauts signed envelopes
postmarked the day they died
Comprises: (1) DICK SCOBEE, JUDY RESNICK and RON McNAIR. Envelope
signed: "Dick Scobee", "Judy Resnik" and "Ron McNair", 6¼x3½. 22¢ Abigail Adams
stamp affixed. Postmarked Kennedy Space Center, FL, January 28, 1986 (the day of the
Challenger tragedy). Typed at left margin: "Space Shuttle 51-L". The names of five
members are typed below the heading. Scobee, Resnick and McNair have signed to the right of
their names. Fine condition. (2) MICHAEL J. SMITH. Commemorative Envelope signed:
"Michael J Smith", 6¼x3½. 15¢ stamp affixed, postmarked Pearlington, MS, May 20,
1980. Air Mail envelope with stamped cachet: "NSTL/Space Shuttle Columbia/FLT Eng 2007
Removed A2/2005 Installed". Lightly rippled. Fine condition. (3) ELLISON ONIZUKA.
Commemorative Envelope signed: "Ellison Onizuka/5-15-81", 6¼x3½. 3¢ "To Cast a Ballot"
and 15¢ flag stamp affixed, postmarked Kennedy Space Center, FL, April 12, 1981.
Stamped Space/Shuttle cachet. Slightly rippled.This official NASA photograph is a crew photo of the ill-fated Challenger mission
STS-51L, which exploded in midair on January 28, 1986 and was the deadliest accident
in NASA history until the destruction of the Columbia in 2003. This rare photograph
contains the signatures of all seven crewmembers of STS-51L, who are shown in flight
suits and holding their helmets
Printed Photograph Signed in Ink: "Mike Smith", "Dick/ Scobee", "Ron McNair", "El
Onizuka", "S. Christa/McAuliffe", "Greg/Jarvis", "Judy/ Resnik". Color, 10x8.
Captioned: "Crew of Space Shuttle/ Mission 51-L. This photograph is an official NASA
crew photo of the ill-fated Challenger mission STS-51L. It contains the signatures of all
seven crewmembers, including teacher Christa McAuliffe, who died when the space
shuttle exploded 73 seconds after launch. The recipient of this photo, Dot Davis, worked
with the Challenger crew at the Johnson Space Center. Accompanied by: A letter of
provenance from Davis noting that the Challenger crew signed this photo in quarantine at the
Kennedy Space Center's while awaiting their launch.…"This official NASA photograph is a crew photo of the ill-fated Challenger mission
STS-51L, which exploded in midair on January 28, 1986 and was the deadliest accident
in NASA history until the destruction of the Columbia in 2003. This rare photograph
contains the signatures of all seven crewmembers of STS-51L, who are shown in flight
suits and holding their helmets
Printed Photograph Signed in Ink: "Mike Smith", "Dick/ Scobee", "Ron McNair", "El
Onizuka", "S. Christa/McAuliffe", "Greg/Jarvis", "Judy/ Resnik". Color, 10x8.
Captioned: "Crew of Space Shuttle/ Mission 51-L. This photograph is an official NASA
crew photo of the ill-fated Challenger mission STS-51L. It contains the signatures of all
seven crewmembers, including teacher Christa McAuliffe, who died when the space
shuttle exploded 73 seconds after launch. The recipient of this photo, Dot Davis, worked
with the Challenger crew at the Johnson Space Center. Accompanied by: A letter of
provenance from Davis noting that the Challenger crew signed this photo in quarantine at the
Kennedy Space Center's while awaiting their launch.…"This official NASA photograph is a crew photo of the ill-fated Challenger mission
STS-51L, which exploded in midair on January 28, 1986 and was the deadliest accident
in NASA history until the destruction of the Columbia in 2003. This rare photograph
contains the signatures of all seven crewmembers of STS-51L, who are shown in flight
suits and holding their helmets
Printed Photograph Signed in Ink: "Mike Smith", "Dick/ Scobee", "Ron McNair", "El
Onizuka", "S. Christa/McAuliffe", "Greg/Jarvis", "Judy/ Resnik". Color, 10x8.
Captioned: "Crew of Space Shuttle/ Mission 51-L. This photograph is an official NASA
crew photo of the ill-fated Challenger mission STS-51L. It contains the signatures of all
seven crewmembers, including teacher Christa McAuliffe, who died when the space
shuttle exploded 73 seconds after launch. The recipient of this photo, Dot Davis, worked
with the Challenger crew at the Johnson Space Center. Accompanied by: A letter of
provenance from Davis noting that the Challenger crew signed this photo in quarantine at the
Kennedy Space Center's while awaiting their launch.…"Collection framed to an overall size of 42x28. Four of the astronauts signed envelopes
postmarked the day they died
Comprises: (1) DICK SCOBEE, JUDY RESNICK and RON McNAIR. Envelope
signed: "Dick Scobee", "Judy Resnik" and "Ron McNair", 6¼x3½. 22¢ Abigail Adams
stamp affixed. Postmarked Kennedy Space Center, FL, January 28, 1986 (the day of the
Challenger tragedy). Typed at left margin: "Space Shuttle 51-L". The names of five
members are typed below the heading. Scobee, Resnick and McNair have signed to the right of
their names. Fine condition. (2) MICHAEL J. SMITH. Commemorative Envelope signed:
"Michael J Smith", 6¼x3½. 15¢ stamp affixed, postmarked Pearlington, MS, May 20,
1980. Air Mail envelope with stamped cachet: "NSTL/Space Shuttle Columbia/FLT Eng 2007
Removed A2/2005 Installed". Lightly rippled. Fine condition. (3) ELLISON ONIZUKA.
Commemorative Envelope signed: "Ellison Onizuka/5-15-81", 6¼x3½. 3¢ "To Cast a Ballot"
and 15¢ flag stamp affixed, postmarked Kennedy Space Center, FL, April 12, 1981.
Stamped Space/Shuttle cachet. Slightly rippled.
Lindbergh's driver's license application signed by him twice and
notarized, only three months before the kidnapping of his infant son. In the
year after the kidnapping, with the baby found dead but no suspect yet
apprehended, the New Jersey Motor Vehicles Commissioner (and future Governor)
Harold Hoffman sent this application to a radio station which was closely
following the case. Hoffman, later unmasked as a criminal himself, meddled
extensively in the kidnapping case.
Document signed twice: "C. A. Lindbergh", 2 pages
(front and verso), 3¾x5. Mercer County, New Jersey, 1931 December 29. New
Jersey Automobile Driver's Renewal Application, filled out by Lindbergh himself,
giving his address (Hopewell, New Jersey) and physical description. He gives New
York City as his place of (self) employment, and attests that he has never had
his license revoked or suspended, nor had he been refused a license. Signed and
attested as truthful by Lindbergh on verso and notarized by "Edward R.
Whitehead". Light vertical crease at center (not affecting signatures).
Signatures slightly smudged (still legible). Lightly worn at edges. Otherwise,
fine condition.
Accompanied by 1 page Typed Letter signed:
"Harold G. Hoffman" as Commissioner of Motor Vehicles. Trenton, New
Jersey, 1933 January 26.This official NASA photograph is a crew photo of the ill-fated Challenger mission
STS-51L, which exploded in midair on January 28, 1986 and was the deadliest accident
in NASA history until the destruction of the Columbia in 2003. This rare photograph
contains the signatures of all seven crewmembers of STS-51L, who are shown in flight
suits and holding their helmets
Printed Photograph Signed in Ink: "Mike Smith", "Dick/ Scobee", "Ron McNair", "El
Onizuka", "S. Christa/McAuliffe", "Greg/Jarvis", "Judy/ Resnik". Color, 10x8.
Captioned: "Crew of Space Shuttle/ Mission 51-L. This photograph is an official NASA
crew photo of the ill-fated Challenger mission STS-51L. It contains the signatures of all
seven crewmembers, including teacher Christa McAuliffe, who died when the space
shuttle exploded 73 seconds after launch. The recipient of this photo, Dot Davis, worked
with the Challenger crew at the Johnson Space Center. Accompanied by: A letter of
provenance from Davis noting that the Challenger crew signed this photo in quarantine at the
Kennedy Space Center's while awaiting their launch.…"Collection framed to an overall size of 42x28. Four of the astronauts signed envelopes
postmarked the day they died
Comprises: (1) DICK SCOBEE, JUDY RESNICK and RON McNAIR. Envelope
signed: "Dick Scobee", "Judy Resnik" and "Ron McNair", 6¼x3½. 22¢ Abigail Adams
stamp affixed. Postmarked Kennedy Space Center, FL, January 28, 1986 (the day of the
Challenger tragedy). Typed at left margin: "Space Shuttle 51-L". The names of five
members are typed below the heading. Scobee, Resnick and McNair have signed to the right of
their names. Fine condition. (2) MICHAEL J. SMITH. Commemorative Envelope signed:
"Michael J Smith", 6¼x3½. 15¢ stamp affixed, postmarked Pearlington, MS, May 20,
1980. Air Mail envelope with stamped cachet: "NSTL/Space Shuttle Columbia/FLT Eng 2007
Removed A2/2005 Installed". Lightly rippled. Fine condition. (3) ELLISON ONIZUKA.
Commemorative Envelope signed: "Ellison Onizuka/5-15-81", 6¼x3½. 3¢ "To Cast a Ballot"
and 15¢ flag stamp affixed, postmarked Kennedy Space Center, FL, April 12, 1981.
Stamped Space/Shuttle cachet. Slightly rippled.Collection framed to an overall size of 42x28. Four of the astronauts signed envelopes
postmarked the day they died
Comprises: (1) DICK SCOBEE, JUDY RESNICK and RON McNAIR. Envelope
signed: "Dick Scobee", "Judy Resnik" and "Ron McNair", 6¼x3½. 22¢ Abigail Adams
stamp affixed. Postmarked Kennedy Space Center, FL, January 28, 1986 (the day of the
Challenger tragedy). Typed at left margin: "Space Shuttle 51-L". The names of five
members are typed below the heading. Scobee, Resnick and McNair have signed to the right of
their names. Fine condition. (2) MICHAEL J. SMITH. Commemorative Envelope signed:
"Michael J Smith", 6¼x3½. 15¢ stamp affixed, postmarked Pearlington, MS, May 20,
1980. Air Mail envelope with stamped cachet: "NSTL/Space Shuttle Columbia/FLT Eng 2007
Removed A2/2005 Installed". Lightly rippled. Fine condition. (3) ELLISON ONIZUKA.
Commemorative Envelope signed: "Ellison Onizuka/5-15-81", 6¼x3½. 3¢ "To Cast a Ballot"
and 15¢ flag stamp affixed, postmarked Kennedy Space Center, FL, April 12, 1981.
Stamped Space/Shuttle cachet. Slightly rippled.
.
The airship pioneer writes a letter regarding the receipt for cigar-cases benefiting the
Red Cross.
Third Person ALS: "Graf Zeppelin" in German, 1p, 5½ x 8½. Friedrichshafen, 1917
January 22. Fully translated: "Graf Zeppelin recommends to the Zeppelin Airship
Construction Company to give the attorney at law, Mr. Schwab, the opportunity to
receive orders for his timely cigar-cases benefiting the Red Cross." Ferdinand, Count
von Zeppelin (1838-1917) entered the Prussian Army in 1858 and served in the Seven Weeks
War and in the Franco-Prussian War. He was an observer with the Union army during the
American Civil War. In 1891, he retired from the Prussian Army to devote himself to the
building of motor-driven airships. Zeppelin invented the first rigid airship in 1900 and in 1906,
built one that had a speed of 30 miles per hour. In 1908, he established at Friedrichshafen the
Zeppelin Foundation for the development of aerial navigation and the manufacture of airships.
Zeppelin died on March 8, 1917, seven weeks after writing this letter. Fine condition.
Framed to an overall size of 33½ x 21.
The man who pioneered the concept of the space shuttle writes about space travel.
Autograph Manuscript signed: "By Dr. Wernher von Braun" in title, 1p, 8¼ x 10½ ruled sheet.
Manuscript page, which is written in pencil, is part of a longer manuscript ("1" written by von
Braun at upper margin). Headed: "Space Travel/by Dr. Wernher von Braun/Chief, Guided
Missile Development Division//Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Ala." In full: "There are few
dreams of the future which have woven so fascinating a web around human fantasy as
flight through space. Since the first, epoch-making experiments of the great American
pioneer of rocketry, Robert H. Goddard; since the days when Hermann Oberth, the
German, and the Russian Constantin E. Ziolkovsky published their startling writings on
rocket propulsion, a veritable spate of literature has overwhelmed the public. This has
covered the entire field ranging from serious, scientific dissertations to comic strips.
Thus, the intelligent layman outsider who is at tempting to sift the actual promises of
space flight from idle conjecture frequently finds himself more confused than before he
began to [word crossed out] study space flight literature.…"
"Lucky Lindy" talks about flying Jennies and why he dislikes reunions,
ceremonies and dinners.
TLS: "Charles", 1p, 8½x11. Germany,
1963 March 19. To Joe. On blue light-weight stationery. In full:
"This is an awfully late answer to your January letter. My mail is always
hopelessly stacked up, literally, and I have taken taken (sic) some of it abroad
with me in the hope of catching up a bit at least with the letters I want most
to write. It is really good of you to invite me to the reunion of the 110th
Observation Squadron, and I do have a very close feeling toward the Squadron --
I often think of the old days flying 'Jennies' at Lambert Field. But Joe, I
think reunions are for those who like them (and may God bless them). To me,
reunions are pretty awful; they always detract from qualities of memory which I
prefer to leave to the past where I think they belong and have the greatest
value. Also, I like to live quietly and to concentrate on my work and interests.
I realized, many years ago, that this kind of life was simply not compatible
with ceremonies and dinners, for one led to another and there seemed to be no
end. With the exception of two in Washington, which came under the 'private'
category, and which were more or less unavoidable, it is now close to a decade
since I have attended a formal dinner.…"
Orville Wright signed this document in 1945 to lease 135 acres of
farm and pastureland that he owned in Indiana. This document was signed three
years before Wright's death and offers a look into how he paid his bills late in
life.
Lease signed "Orville Wright" as Lessor. 2 pages,
8½x12¾, single-sided sheets, bound with two staples at top edge. Feb. 6,
1945. Wright signed this lease agreement to lease 135 acres of farm and
pastureland in "Township 23 North", Indiana [possibly Fowlerton] to Clayton W.
Dickerson of Jonesboro, Indiana. The lease's term was from March 1, 1945, to
Feb. 28, 1946. Dickerson leased the farm - which included improvements like an
orchard, garden lot and barn - for $6 per acre or a total of $810, paid in full
to Wright on Sept. 1, 1945. This lease also laid out Dickerson's
responsibilities. In short, he had to maintain the land and its buildings out of
his own pocket and pay one-half the cost for seed and fertilizer and for
threshing and hulling any crops, with Wright paying the other half. Wilbur
(1867-1912, born near Millville, Indiana) and Orville (1871-1948,
born in Dayton, Ohio) formed the Wright Cycle Company in 1892 and manufactured
bicycles.Collection framed to an overall size of 42x28. Four of the astronauts signed envelopes
postmarked the day they died
Comprises: (1) DICK SCOBEE, JUDY RESNICK and RON McNAIR. Envelope
signed: "Dick Scobee", "Judy Resnik" and "Ron McNair", 6¼x3½. 22¢ Abigail Adams
stamp affixed. Postmarked Kennedy Space Center, FL, January 28, 1986 (the day of the
Challenger tragedy). Typed at left margin: "Space Shuttle 51-L". The names of five
members are typed below the heading. Scobee, Resnick and McNair have signed to the right of
their names. Fine condition. (2) MICHAEL J. SMITH. Commemorative Envelope signed:
"Michael J Smith", 6¼x3½. 15¢ stamp affixed, postmarked Pearlington, MS, May 20,
1980. Air Mail envelope with stamped cachet: "NSTL/Space Shuttle Columbia/FLT Eng 2007
Removed A2/2005 Installed". Lightly rippled. Fine condition. (3) ELLISON ONIZUKA.
Commemorative Envelope signed: "Ellison Onizuka/5-15-81", 6¼x3½. 3¢ "To Cast a Ballot"
and 15¢ flag stamp affixed, postmarked Kennedy Space Center, FL, April 12, 1981.
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