- LT.
COL. EDWARD H. WHITE II (1930-1967)
- Pioneer
American Astronaut
- Project
Mercury Signed First Day Cover
- SOLD
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- Lt. Colonel Edward H. White
(1930-1967). Pioneer
American Astronaut & First American to Walk in Space. Document
Signed, being a First Day Cover celebrating Project Mercury
and First Day Issue of the Project Mercury stamp, postmarked
February 20, 1962—The date of John Glenn's historic orbit
of the earth—Cape Canaveral, Florida. Boldly signed in full:
"Edward H. White II".
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- White was chosen with the second
group of astronauts in 1962. He was pilot of Gemini IV and during
that mission was the first American to make a spacewalk. He served
as backup command pilot for Gemini VII, and had been selected
to be command module pilot for the first Apollo flight. Tragically,
On January 27, 1967, a flash fire occurred in command module
012 during a launch pad test of the Apollo/Saturn space vehicle
being prepared for the first piloted flight, the AS-204 mission.
Three astronauts, Lt. Col. Virgil I. Grissom, a veteran of Mercury
and Gemini missions; Roger B. Chaffee, an astronaut preparing
for his first space flight; and White, died in this accident.
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- Minor soiling, normal aging
and handling, otherwise, very good. Accompanied with official
8 in. by 10 in. NASA Portrait. $OLD
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