Rare Autograph, Photograph and Manuscript Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 4/13/2017
Official color 8 x 10 NASA lithograph of See posing in a suit and tie, signed in black felt tip, “With Best Regards to Ralph—Elliot See.” Elliot See Jr. (July 23, 1927 – February 28, 1966) was an American engineer, naval aviator, test pilot, and NASA astronaut, selected in the second group of astronauts.Chosen as the prime command pilot for what would have been his first space flight, Gemini 9, he was killed with his crewmate Charles Bassett in a 1966 NASA trainer jet crash at the St. Louis, Missouri McDonnell Aircraft plant, where they were to take two weeks of space rendezvous simulator training.
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