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Gordon Cooper Signed Book with Handwritten Last Lines from The Right Stuff Movie: This New Ocean. A History ...
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Gordon Cooper Signed Book with Handwritten Last Lines from The Right Stuff Movie: This New Ocean. A History of Project Mercury. By Lloyd S. Swenson, Jr., James M. Grimwood, and Charles C. Alexander. (Washington, D.C.: NASA, 1966). Part of the NASA Historical Series (SP-4201). On the free front endpaper, Gordon has written in black ink: "On a glorious day in May 1963/ I flew the Faith 7 spacecraft/ higher and farther than any other/ Mercury astronaut, making me for this/ day, the world's greatest pilot/ anyone ever saw!: Gordon Cooper". This is a condensation of the closing narration from the 1983 film in which Dennis Quaid portrayed Cooper. Rare as such. Publisher's original hardcover binding, octavo, 681 pages, illustrated. Fine.Auction Info
2021 May 21 - 22 Space Exploration Signature Auction #6238 (go to Auction Home page)
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May, 2021
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