Original bi-fold program for a “20th Anniversary Reunion” for the Mercury astronauts at the Holiday Inn in Altamonte Springs, Florida, on April 9, 1979, 7 x 8.5, signed on the front cover in black felt tip by astronauts Alan Shepard and Wally Schirra. The program is also signed by astronaut wives Betty Grissom, Jo Schirra, Marge Slayton, and Louise Shepard, as well as by Dr. William K. Douglas, a U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel who, on April 1, 1959, was selected as the personal physician for America’s first astronauts, the ‘Mercury Seven.’ Douglas was the astronauts’ physician for the next three years, working out of Florida's Patrick Air Force Base for the Office of the Assistant for Bioastronautics at the Air Force Missile Test Center. His daily pattern of life would simulate that of the seven astronauts and he would endure much of the rigorous testing they were subjected to, leading some to call him the ‘eighth astronaut.’ In very good to fine condition, with light creasing and slightly irregular toning.
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