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Signed book: The Astronauts: The First 25 Years of Manned Space Flight. First edition. NY: Exeter Books, 1986. Hardcover (missing dust jacket), 9.25 x 12.25, 192 pages. Signed inside, mostly on the opening and closing pages, in ink and felt tip by approximately 100 astronauts from all of NASA’s storied programs: Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, and the Space Shuttle. Of the more notable signers are six of the original Mercury astronauts (Alan Shepard, John Glenn, Wally Schirra, Gordon Cooper, Scott Carpenter, and Deke Slayton), and a total of 17 Apollo astronauts, including six moonwalkers: Gene Cernan, Charles Conrad, Alan Bean, Charlie Duke, Harrison Schmitt, Jim Irwin, Michael Collins, Fred Haise, Ron Evans, James Lovell, Ken Mattingly, Jim McDivitt, Al Worden, Rusty Schweickart, Stuart A. Roosa, Walt Cunningham, and Richard Gordon. Other signers include: Owen Garriott, Bob Crippen, Paul Weitz, Jack Lousma, Jerry Carr, Kathryn Sullivan, Vance Brand, Story Musgrave, Richard Truly, Gordon Fullerton, Mike Mullane, Bruce McCandless II, Karol Bobko, Pinky Nelson, Tony England, and many more. The book is also signed by notable space figures like engineer Maxime Faget and cosmonaut legend Alexei Leonov. In very good to fine condition, with wear to the covers and separation to spine; interior pages are clean and generally unaffected.
