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Description:
Apollo 8 Ephemera. Two pamphlets on the mission, the first signed by Frank Borman; Apollo Manned Spacecraft Series permanent vinyl decals, nine full-color decals with logos of Apollo missions seven through fifteen on their original backing paper, produced for Space Age Enterprises by Vitachrome, Inc., Rosemead, California; two magazine and newspaper articles on the mission, a Christmas Eve Prayer from Lunar Orbit, with a cancelled Apollo 8 stamp attached; an official NASA press release for Sunday, December 15, 1968; and a photograph of the diagram for Apollo 8's Lunar Orbital Plan Profile, captioned in purple on verso with NASA round logo, 68-H-1112/68-HC-678.
The Rudolf Spoor Collection of NASA Photographs and Ephemera
Estimate $200-300
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Keywords
Vitachrome Inc., Apollo Manned Spacecraft, RosemeadJohn Dorfman
Director, Books & Manuscripts
508-970-3293
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