Apollo Astronauts Signed Photograph Collection.

ALDRIN, Buzz; Gene Cernan; Charles Conrad; Edgar Mitchell; David Scott; Harrison Schmitt.

Item Number: 117108

Rare collection of nine official NASA photographs, each signed and inscribed by six of the Apollo astronauts, each of whom walked on the surface of the moon. The nine photographs include: a color photograph of Buzz Aldrin standing beside the U.S. Flag on the surface of the Moon inscribed by Buzz Aldrin (Apollo 11), “To Roger Ryan with Best Wished Buzz Aldrin”, two black and white photographs signed by Ed Mitchell (Apollo 14), a color photograph of the Skylab Space Station signed by Charles Conrad, a color photograph of the prime crew of the eleventh manned Apollo mission inscribed by Gene Cernan, “To Doug – with my very best to you – from the Moon! Gene Cernan Apollo XVII”, color portraits of Harrison H. Schmitt and David R. Scott inscribed by each, and a color photograph of Schmitt standing on the surface of the moon at the Apollo 17 landing site signed by him. In fine condition. A fine collection of historic signed photographs.

The Apollo program, also known as Project Apollo, was the third United States human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which accomplished landing the first humans on the Moon from 1969 to 1972. First conceived during Dwight D. Eisenhower's administration as a three-man spacecraft to follow the one-man Project Mercury which put the first Americans in space, Apollo was later dedicated to President John F. Kennedy's national goal of "landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth" by the end of the 1960s, which he proposed in an address to Congress on May 25, 1961.