Charpentier

1967 · Best.-Nr. W1222 — Chevy Chase Maryland: Department of the Navy 1967. Sheet of stationery with the letterhead of the U. S. Navy's Deep Submergence Systems Project Office that is AUTOGRAPHED without inscription by Mercury 7 astronaut Scott Carpenter 1925-2013 who was the second American after John Glenn to orbit the Earth. Carpenter retired from NASA in 1967 when he became Director of Aquanaut Operations for SEALAB III within the U. S. Navy's Deep Submergence Systems Project Office. Provenance: from the collection of Lee Saegesser Chief Archivist from 1967 until 1997 in the Washington DC NASA Headquarters History Office. Certificate of Authenticity available if requested. Included with the autographed stationery is Saegesser's personal copy of NASA's record of Carpenter's famous quotation following his orbital flight: "The sunrises and sunsets were the most beautiful and spectacular events of the flight. Unlike those on Earth the sunrises and sunsets in orbit were all the same. The sharply defined bands of color at the horizon were brilliant." The autograph is bright and unfaded; the stationery is clean with 2 horizontal folding creases light toning and two tiny brown spots. SIGNED. First Edition. Paper. Collectible-Very Good. 11" by 8 1/2". Manuscript. Department of the Navy Paperback