THE SPACE HISTORY SALE Wednesday July 20, 2016 THE SPACE HISTORY SALE Wednesday July 20, 2016 at 1pm New York BONHAMS BIDS INQUIRIES Automated Results Service 580 Madison Avenue +1 (212) 644 9001 New York +1 (800) 223 2854 New York, New York 10022 +1 (212) 644 9009 fax Cassandra Hatton bonhams.com Director ILLUSTRATIONS To bid via the internet please visit History of Science & Technology PREVIEW www.bonhams.com/23378 +1 (212) 461 6531 Front cover: Saturday July 16, 12pm-5pm [email protected] The Apollo 11 Lunar Module Sunday July 17, 12pm-5pm Please note that telephone bids Ascent Stage returning from the Monday July 18, 10am-5pm must be submitted no later than Christina Geiger lunar surface with astronauts Tuesday July 19, 10am-5pm 4pm on the day prior to the Director Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin Wednesday July 20, 10am-12pm auction. New bidders must also New York on board. (JSC AS11-44-6642). provide proof of identity and +1 (212) 644 9094 See Lot 179 address when submitting bids. [email protected] SALE NUMBER: 23378 Inside front cover: Lot 165 Lots 1 - 289 Please contact client services Brian Kalkbrenner with any bidding inquiries. Associate Specialist Session 1: Lot 17 CATALOG: $35 +1 (323) 436 5482 Session 2: Lot 70 Please see pages 143 to 146 for [email protected] Session 3: Lot 92 bidder information including Session 4: Lot 109 conditions of sale, after-sale San Francisco Session 5: Lot 115 collection and shipment. Adam Stackhouse Session 6: Lot 138 (detail) Senior Specialist Session 7: Lot 174 +1 (415) 503 3266 Session 8: Lot 223 [email protected] Session 9: Lot 285 Los Angeles Inside back cover: Lot 166 Catherine Williamson Director Back cover: Lot 23 +1 (323) 436 5442 [email protected] © 2016 Bonhams & Butterfields Auctioneers Corp. All rights reserved. Principal Auctioneer: Patrick Meade. NYC License No. 1183066-DCA INTRODUCTION We are very pleased to be presenting our eight annual Space Following this is a section of beautiful lunar and planetary History auction, to take place this year on the 47th anniversary photography, including an excellent selection of photos from of the first manned lunar landing, completed by Astronauts several Lunar Orbiter missions (lots 113-130). Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin during the Apollo 11 mission on July 20th, 1969. We are saddened to note the passing of the last surviving Apollo 14 crew-member, Dr. Edgar Mitchell earlier this year. All Apollo This year we are offering several important items flown on that lunar flight missions, Apollo 8, 10 through 17, are represented, mission, including a Navigational Chart taken to the lunar surface with numerous flown and signed items, including a motion picture (lot 165). This important chart shows the Lunar Module Eagle’s sight ring used on the moon during the Apollo 15 mission (lot 243), projected descent path, and was used during the anxious Edgar Mitchell’s flown Texas state flag (lot 220), and a large Lunar minutes while Armstrong and Aldrin were awaiting the “GO” for Near Side chart, signed by a member of every Apollo lunar landing Powered Descent Initiation. Other flown Apollo 11 items include crew, including Dr. Mitchell (lot 163). The sale closes out with a a Flight Plan Sheet from mission day one, containing annotations section of items from the Apollo Soyuz Test Program, as well as by both Armstrong and Aldrin (lot 166), a crew signed beta items from the Shuttle era, including three grouping of Robbins cloth emblem (lot 164), and a Checklist Sheet taken to the lunar medallions from the personal collection of Astronaut John Fabain surface, which illustrates the final configuration for the Eagle’s (lots 284, 287, & 289). circuit breakers (lot 167). It was only four years ago that President Obama signed into law a As a counterpart to our flown American material, we are very bill clarifying the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo crew members have excited open the sale with a selection of excellent models “full ownership of and clear title to” any expendable item used in and flown items from several Soviet Missions. These include their missions, and furthermore that the Federal Government will a very rare full scale model of the Sputnik, the world’s first have “no claim of ownership” to artifacts that have subsequently artificial satellite (lot 1). Built to test for ground Electromagnetic been sold, traded, or gifted by the astronauts. Partly as a result of Compatibility and Interference, it comes with a period Tesla this legislation, this years’ sale is full of some of the most exciting model receiver, and is still operational. A Flown Space material to have come to the market. Navigation Indicator from the Soyuz-3 Mission (lot 15) is another highlight, as well as a very fine Flown Navigational Celestial The Space History sale will preview in our New York galleries July Globe from Soyuz 18 (lot 17). A flown Sokol KV-2 space suit 16-20, and we look forward to seeing you there. Since the material from ISS expedition 6 (lot 23) rounds out the Soviet section. in the sale is generally in excellent condition, we have for the most part not given condition details in our descriptions. For condition This section is followed by a selection of American Gear, information, or for information on bidding, please contact any Models, & Hardware. Two stand-out lots are an impressive member of the department. five-part original Gemini trainer assembly (lot 30), used to train the astronauts at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, as well as a wonderful collection of right hand castings for 15 Astronauts, used in their development of their spacesuit gloves (lot 25). This section is followed by a variety of items CASSANDRA HATTON from Projects Mercury and Gemini, many signed, or flown. Director, History of Science and Technology ORDER OF SALE Soviet Models, Hardware, & Gear Lots 1-23 American Gear, Models & Hardware Lots 24-76 Project Mercury Lots 77-98 Project Gemini Lots 99-110 Lunar Orbiter, Earth, & Planetary Photography and Images Lots 111-136 Apollo Program Through Apollo 10 Lots 137-163 Apollo 11 Lots 167-194 Apollo 12-17 Lots 197-277 Skylab, ASTP, & Shuttle Lots 278-289 SOVIET MODELS, HARDWARE, & GEAR Lots 1 - 23 Lot 17 1 W FULL SCALE VINTAGE SPUTNIK-1 EMC/EMI LAB MODEL An exceptionally rare vintage test model of the Sputnik-1 satellite, one of A full scale vintage test model of the Sputnik-1 satellite, serial number only a few made to test ground Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) and “OKб-1/003/1957”, with live transmitter (still operational, with a new Electromagnetic Interference (AMI) testing. While there are only four known 12v battery). Polished metal sphere with 4 external antennae, approx vintage replicas of the Sputnik-1 (two in private hands, one just outside 23 inches in diameter on manganese brass stand with anti-static Moscow at the Energia Corporate Museum, the company that descended o-ring, stand approx 4 feet 9 inches tall, stand and model together from Korolev’s Experimental Design Bureau, and one which does not have approx 6 feet 6 inches tall, and approx 100 lbs. Produced at the OKб- the internal components of that at Energia Corp, at the Museum of Flight 1[OKB-1], the Experimental Design Bureau-1 factory, also known as in Seattle, Washington), we do not know of any other test models. the S. P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia, in 1957 An incredible and impressive artifact from the dawn of the space age. sometime prior to the launch of the Sputnik-1. Complete with vintage Tesla Maj 620A broadcast receiver, approx 24 x 18 x 13 inches, and The Sputnik-1 artificial satellite first orbited the Earth on October 5, 1957. 42 lbs, made in Prague ca 1955-56. Visible all around the Earth, it launched the American Sputnik crisis and gave birth to the Space Race. Provenance From the Air & Space Collection of scramjet rocket engineer, $10,000 - 15,000 Professor Alexander Roudakov. 4 | BONHAMS THE SPACE HISTORY SALE | 5 2 3 2 3 SPUTNIK-1 MODEL EARLY RUSSIAN LUNAR DIRECT ASCENT SPACECRAFT Custom handmade 1:4 scale model of the Soviet Sputnik-1 satellite Approx 1:41 scale model of an early Russian Lunar Direct Ascent in polished aluminum on curved aluminum stand, approx 22 inches spacecraft with landing gear deployed, plastic, resin and metal, tall, with 4 19½ inch polished steel antennas, mounted on 9 x 14 inch 8¾ inches tall. black lacquer base with plaque reading “Sputnik-1 Model, The first artificial Earth satellite, USSR October, 4, 1957.” Direct Ascent was one of several strategies for a moon landing wherein the spacecraft and attached landing module would be launched A precise representation of the antennas and brackets, hatches, and directly to the moon, where it would land tail first. It would then head mounting screws. An important piece representing the birth of launch off of the moon to return Earth. This method, which would the Space Race. require an enormous launch vehicle and was considered by both the United States and the USSR, was an alternative to the Earth Orbit $3,000 - 5,000 Rendezvous (EOR) and Lunar Orbit Rendezvous (LOR) methods. The Apollo missions successfully made use of the LOR method, and the Soviets would have gone with a similar method had their N1 rocket not failed to launch. $1,000 - 1,500 6 | BONHAMS 4 VOSTOK 1 (VOSTOK 3KA-3) SPACECRAFT MODEL Project presentation model, NPO Energia, c.1987. Large 1:8 scale, 21 inches long and approx 7 inches in diameter, mounted onto 18 x 10 x 1 inch black stand with plaque reading “VOSTOK 3KA-3 (VOSTOK 1) SPACECRAFT NPO ENERGIA.” A very highly detailed model made for exhibition purposes by NPO Energia, the Russian company that manufactured the actual Vostok.