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Lot #510
Gus Grissom

Grissom signature on a cover postmarked one week after the Mercury test flight

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Grissom signature on a cover postmarked one week after the Mercury test flight

Died in 1967 in the Apollo spacecraft fire. He piloted the Liberty Bell 7 spacecraft, the second and final suborbital Mercury test flight, on July 21, 1961. Ink signature, “Virgil I. Grissom,” signed vertically along the left edge of a white 6.5 x 3.75 envelope. The cover is postmarked July 28, 1961. In fine condition, with name and address in another hand in the lower right corner, far from the Grissom signature. R&R COA.

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