Thursday 21 July 2016

Checklist from John Glenn's historic Mercury flight up for sale



Following on the heels of Bonhams' recent sale of spacesuits and related items, Nate D Sanders Auctions is offering another vintage piece of Space Race memorabilia. The bidding has opened for an online auction that includes NASA astronaut John Glenn's timeline of flight instructions that flew on his historic 1962 Mercury-Atlas 6 mission, which saw him become the first US astronaut to orbit the Earth.

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