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Apollo Mission Programme Autographs. A collection of 30 items with 28 NASA space programme autographs, including autographs of all 12 Moonwalkers, 1968/1972, comprising signed official colour photographs of astronauts in spacesuits including from Apollo 11: Neil Armstrong (1930-2012), the first man on the Moon, signed in blue fibre pen and inscribed in block capitals for R. Newcombe’; Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin (born 1930), the second man on the Moon, signed in blue fibre pen across white area of spacesuit; photograph of all three crew members of Apollo 11, signed by Michael Collins (1930-2021) in blue ink across white area of his spacesuit, all three photographs showing a large picture of the Moon behind them; Apollo 12: autographs of the third and fourth men on the Moon, Charles “Pete” Conrad Jr. (1930-1999) and Alan L. Bean (1932-2018), each inscribed in blue fibre pen on card, some toning, each 7.5 x 12.5cm; Apollo 14: photographs of the fifth and sixth men to walk on the Moon, Alan Shepard (1923-1998) and Edgar Mitchell (1930-2016); plus a group of all three crew member signatures (with Stuart Roose, 1933-1994) in pencil on light grey card, 100 x 110mm; Apollo 15: photographs of the seventh and eighth men to walk on the Moon, Commander David Scott (born 1932) and James Irwin (1930-1991), the first additionally inscribed, ‘Apollo 15 CDR’; Apollo 16: autographs of the ninth and tenth men to walk on the Moon, crew members Commander John Young (1930-2018) and Charles Duke (born 1935), blue ballpoint signatures on card, both partly toned, each 7.5 x 12.5cm; photograph of Duke walking on the Moon, signed and inscribed beneath his signature, ‘Apollo 16’; Apollo 17: signed photograph of Gene Cernan (1934-2017), the 11th man to walk on the moon; autograph signature of Harrison Schmitt (born 1935), the 12th and last man to date to walk on the Moon to date, in blue fibre pen on card, some toning, 7.5 x 12.5cm; plus Apollo 7: black and white photograph of Commander Walter Schirra Jr. (1923-2007), signed in blue fibre pen with ‘Apollo 7’ inscribed by him beneath his signature; Apollo 8: a series of 8 first day covers, Cape Canaveral/Port Washington, 21-27 December 1968, the first signed in blue ink by all three crew members, Frank Borman, James Lovell and William Anders, plus a British first day cover, Yatton, Bristol, 24 December 1968, with message and address to front, signed to verso in black fibre pen by all three crew members; Apollo 9: signed photograph of Commander James McDivitt (born 1929); Apollo 13: First day cover, Kawishiwi, 17 April 1970, signed in black fibre pen by Commander James Lovell (born 1928); signed photograph of lunar module pilot Fred Halse (born 1933), and inscribed ‘Apollo 13 LMP’ beneath his signature; plus an autograph signature on card of German-American aerospace engineer Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun (1912-1977) and a signed photograph of test pilot and astronaut Scott Carpenter (1925-2013), all photographs 25 x 20cm or the reverse (Qty: 30)