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Archive of space memorabilia spanning the full arc of America's manned spaceflight program, from Project Mercury through the Space Shuttle era, assembled over many years by Clifford Hochman. The collection encompasses astronaut autographs, mission-related philatelic material, signed books, display pieces, models, and documentary archives associated with the major figures and milestones of the Space Age.
The archive contains astronaut signatures representing nearly every major figure of the American space program. Mercury astronauts represented include John Glenn, Alan Shepard, Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, Wally Schirra, and Deke Slayton, highlighted by a framed display featuring 18 Mercury astronaut autographs, souvenir typescripts from We Seven signed by Glenn and Slayton, signed NASA lithographs, and multiple signed memoirs and presentation volumes. Apollo-era material includes signed items from moonwalkers Buzz Aldrin, Alan Bean, Charles Conrad, Edgar Mitchell, Jim Irwin, Alan Shepard, and Gene Cernan, alongside crew-signed launch covers, photographs, books, and mission-related documents representing Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15, and 17. The archive also includes signed material from Skylab, Gemini, ASTP, and Shuttle astronauts, including a crew-signed oversized STS-2 launch photograph signed by Joe Engle and Richard Truly.
Signed books and media items throughout the archive include Apollo: The Panoramas signed by Apollo 16 moonwalker Charlie Duke; two copies of The Wonder of It All DVD signed by Harrison Schmitt; Michael Collins's Carrying the Fire signed by the Apollo 11 command module pilot; a Russian-language Apollo-Soyuz Test Project volume signed by Soviet cosmonauts Alexei Leonov and Valeri Kubasov; Chuck Yeager's signed autobiography Yeager; Return of the Enola Gay signed by Paul Tibbets; and Norman Mailer's signed Of a Fire on the Moon. Additional volumes include multiple copies of Andrew Chaikin's A Man on the Moon, Moonfire, Space Shuttle: The History of the National Space Transportation System, Moonshots & Snapshots of Project Apollo, Spaceshots & Snapshots of Projects Mercury & Gemini, and numerous other works devoted to astronaut biography, lunar exploration, Shuttle history, Soviet spaceflight, and aerospace engineering.
The archive further includes five binders of unflown NASA first-day covers, mission-related philatelic material, NASA fact sheets, and official NASA publications organized by subject and program, including Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, and ASTP. Display material and memorabilia include Apollo-themed glass paperweights by John Gentile, a porcelain Lladró Apollo landing figurine, a signed Vitaly Myagkov lithograph, a 1:200 Saturn V model, a 1:200 Space Shuttle Discovery model, and a 1:48 Apollo Lunar Module/Command Service Module display model. In overall fine condition.
From the collection of Clifford Hochman.
