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Auction archive: Lot number 37

FLOWN ON GEMINI 10 – Cloth mission emblem, 1969.

Estimate
US$5,000 - US$7,000
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 37

FLOWN ON GEMINI 10 – Cloth mission emblem, 1969.

Estimate
US$5,000 - US$7,000
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

FLOWN ON GEMINI 10 – Cloth mission emblem, 1969. Gemini 10 flown emblem given to Tom Stafford by fellow Gemini astronaut John Young The emblem design features a large red Roman numeral “X” with two gold stars symbolic of the two flight astronauts and the Gemini Program. Two orbiting vehicles, a Gemini spacecraft moving in on an Agena target vehicle for docking are shown circling around the Roman numeral. The emblem is displayed on a SIGNED letter of provenance from Thomas P. STAFFORD, in which he mentions fellow astronauts John Young Mike Collins, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin: "The crew emblem displayed below was carried aboard the Gemini X spacecraft during July 18 to 21, 1966. It was presented to me by my good friend John Young who was mission commander. John would have one of the most distinguished careers in the entire Astronaut Corps. He flew two Gemini flights and two Apollo flights, one with me on Apollo X in 1969 and the other landing and walking on the moon in April 1972 during Apollo 16. Later he commanded the first Space Shuttle flight in 1981 and finally the 9th Shuttle flight in 1983. Mike Collins was pilot on Gemini X and later was Command Module Pilot of the most historic mission of all time, Apollo 11. He remained in lunar orbit to enabled Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to successfully return from the moon after they made the first lunar landing and surface exploration during July 20 and 21, 1969. This emblem has the highly symbolic Roman numeral X on the front with two stars reflecting the two astronauts and the Gemini Program. The orbital paths of both the Agena and Gemini spacecraft are plotted around the Roman numeral representing the mission objectives of rendezvous and docking which John and Mike completed successfully on their first flight day. They used the Agena’s engine to increase their orbit to over 400 nautical miles high. On day two, they used the Agena’s motor again to put them into the same orbit as the Agena used with Neil Armstrong’s Gemini 8 flight and made a rendezvous with it on day three. Mike made two EVA’s during the flight. He had much more success than Gene Cernan and I had on Gemini IX. John and Mike returned to earth on July 21 and came close to beating my record of the closest landing to target, but were off by around 2 miles. The USS Guadalcanal picked them up after some 70 hours in space and making 43 orbits of the earth.” Cloth emblem, 3 inches in diameter. [With:] Black and white photograph showing the Gemini 10 launch in a ten-step time exposure of the Pad 19 launch gantry, 8 by 10 inches. Archivally matted to 12.5 by 19.5 inches.

Auction archive: Lot number 37
Auction:
Datum:
18 Jul 2019
Auction house:
Christie's
New York
Beschreibung:

FLOWN ON GEMINI 10 – Cloth mission emblem, 1969. Gemini 10 flown emblem given to Tom Stafford by fellow Gemini astronaut John Young The emblem design features a large red Roman numeral “X” with two gold stars symbolic of the two flight astronauts and the Gemini Program. Two orbiting vehicles, a Gemini spacecraft moving in on an Agena target vehicle for docking are shown circling around the Roman numeral. The emblem is displayed on a SIGNED letter of provenance from Thomas P. STAFFORD, in which he mentions fellow astronauts John Young Mike Collins, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin: "The crew emblem displayed below was carried aboard the Gemini X spacecraft during July 18 to 21, 1966. It was presented to me by my good friend John Young who was mission commander. John would have one of the most distinguished careers in the entire Astronaut Corps. He flew two Gemini flights and two Apollo flights, one with me on Apollo X in 1969 and the other landing and walking on the moon in April 1972 during Apollo 16. Later he commanded the first Space Shuttle flight in 1981 and finally the 9th Shuttle flight in 1983. Mike Collins was pilot on Gemini X and later was Command Module Pilot of the most historic mission of all time, Apollo 11. He remained in lunar orbit to enabled Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to successfully return from the moon after they made the first lunar landing and surface exploration during July 20 and 21, 1969. This emblem has the highly symbolic Roman numeral X on the front with two stars reflecting the two astronauts and the Gemini Program. The orbital paths of both the Agena and Gemini spacecraft are plotted around the Roman numeral representing the mission objectives of rendezvous and docking which John and Mike completed successfully on their first flight day. They used the Agena’s engine to increase their orbit to over 400 nautical miles high. On day two, they used the Agena’s motor again to put them into the same orbit as the Agena used with Neil Armstrong’s Gemini 8 flight and made a rendezvous with it on day three. Mike made two EVA’s during the flight. He had much more success than Gene Cernan and I had on Gemini IX. John and Mike returned to earth on July 21 and came close to beating my record of the closest landing to target, but were off by around 2 miles. The USS Guadalcanal picked them up after some 70 hours in space and making 43 orbits of the earth.” Cloth emblem, 3 inches in diameter. [With:] Black and white photograph showing the Gemini 10 launch in a ten-step time exposure of the Pad 19 launch gantry, 8 by 10 inches. Archivally matted to 12.5 by 19.5 inches.

Auction archive: Lot number 37
Auction:
Datum:
18 Jul 2019
Auction house:
Christie's
New York
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