Heritage Auctions: Space Exploration Signature Auction, 6326, Dallas

Auction Details

Auction Date
December 11, 2025 - December 12, 2025
Page Size: 515 items in 21 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
50003

Rocket Mail: The First International Rocket Mail Service in the United States, a Set of Four Flown and Signed Covers, 1936.

1936 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Unknown
50008

Albert I: The First Primate Launched into Space, in a V-2 Rocket on June 11, 1948, Launch Cover.

1948 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Unknown
50012

Missile Mail: U.S. Navy Regulus II "Missile Mail" Experimental Flown Cover with Original Documentation, 1958.

1958 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Unknown
50013

Missile Mail: U.S. Navy Regulus II "Missile Mail" Unauthorized Experimental Flown Cover, One of Only Twelve, with Original Documentation, 1959.

1959 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Unknown
50015

X-15: Sperry Gyroscope "Inertial Climb Indicator", Original Flight Instrument from the X-15 Program.

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Unknown
50016

Space Mail: USAF "First Mail from Outer Space" Cover Flown on Discovery XVII with Original Letter of Transmittal to NASA's First Administrator, 1960.

1960 USD 1,440.00 - 2,160.00 Unknown
50017

Vostok: General Nikolai Kamanin's Map for Vostok 3KA-1 Landing with Site Marked, Signed in Russian on Verso.

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Unknown
50018

Vostok 1: Records File on the First Space Flight by the USSR Citizen Yuri Alexeyevitch Gagarin, Made on April 12, 1961, on Spaceship-Sputnik "Vostok," Signed by Yuri Gagarin.

1961 USD 14,400.00 - 21,600.00 Unknown
50019

Vostok 1 Commemorative Presentation Model.

USD 3,200.00 - 4,800.00 Unknown
50020

Yuri Gagarin Signed Large Photograph Inscribed to General Nikolai Kamanin and Originally from Kamanin's Personal Collection, dated August 24, 1961.

1961 USD 1,280.00 - 1,920.00 Unknown
50021

Yuri Gagarin Autograph Postcard, Signed Twice, to General Nikolai Kamanin and Originally from Kamanin's Personal Collection, postmarked December 30, 1961, with Certificate of Authenticity from PSA/DNA.

1961 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Unknown
50022

General Nikolai Kamanin: Photo Album Presented to Him by the People of Orenburg, Signed by Yuri Gagarin dated June 1961, from Kamanin's Personal Collection.

1961 USD 1,280.00 - 1,920.00 Unknown
50023

General Nikolai Kamanin: Original Eight Page Handwritten Report on Yuri Gagarin's 1961 Visit to Cuba, Canada, and Brazil.

1961 Visit to Cuba USD 1,440.00 - 2,160.00 Unknown
50024

Vostok 2: Records File on the Space Flight by the USSR Citizen German Stepanovich Titov, Made On August 6-7, 1961, On Spaceship-Sputnik "Vostok-2," with the First Images of Earth from Space, Signed by Gherman Titov.

1961 USD 6,400.00 - 9,600.00 Unknown
50025

Vostok 2 Flown Food Tubes (Two) Originally from the Collection of Cosmonaut Gherman Titov.

USD 960.00 - 1,440.00 Unknown
50026

Vostok 3: Records File on the Space Flight by the USSR Citizen Andriyan Grigoryevich Nikolayev In The "Vostok-3" Spaceship, August 11-15, 1962, Signed by Andriyan Nikolayev.

1962 USD 5,600.00 - 8,400.00 Unknown
50027

Vostok 3 & Vostok 4: Records File Document on the First in the World Group Space Flight by the USSR Citizens Andriyan Grigoryevich Nikolayev and Pavel Romanovich Popovich in the "Vostok-3" and "Vostok-4" Spaceships August 12-15, 1962, Signed by Nikolayev

1962 USD 6,400.00 - 9,600.00 Unknown
50028

Vostok 6: Records File on the First in the World Space Flight by USSR Woman-Citizen Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova In The "Vostok-6" Spaceship, June 16-19, 1963, Signed by Valentina Tereshkova.

1963 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 Unknown
50029

Vostok Cosmonauts: Large Photo Posed at Lenin's Mausoleum, Signed by the USSR's First Six in Space, with Certificate of Authenticity from PSA/DNA.

USD 1,600.00 - 2,400.00 Unknown
50030

Voskhod 1: Records File of the First Multi-Crew Space Flight in the World Aboard the Spacecraft-Satellite "Vostok" October 12--13, 1964, Signed by Komarov, Feoktistov, and Yegorov.

1964 USD 7,200.00 - 10,800.00 Unknown
50031

Voskhod 2: Records File of the First Flight in the World with the Exit of a Human into Outer Space on the Spacecraft-Satellite Voskhod-2, March 18--19, 1965, Signed by Belyayev and Leonov.

1965 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 Unknown
50032

Alexei Leonov: Handwritten and Signed Report on the First Human Spacewalk aboard Voskhod 2, March 18--19, 1965 [with] Signed Printed Copy of a Similar Report.

1965 [with] Signed Printed Copy of a Similar Report. USD 960.00 - 1,440.00 Unknown
50033

Pavel Belyayev's Personal Pilot's Watch Worn on Historic Voskhod 2 Mission, with Note from His Widow Tatyana.

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Unknown
50034

Soviet Awards and Certificates Archive as Presented to Kerim Kerimov, Early Soviet Space Pioneer, Long Classified.

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Unknown
50035

Yuri Gagarin, Vladimir Komarov, and Three Other Cosmonauts as well as Two Military Heroes: Signatures on the Verso of a 1966-dated Central Committee of Communist Party-Issued Luncheon Invitation.

1966-dated Central Committee of Communist Party-Issued Luncheon Invitation. USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Unknown
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