[Rarebooks] FS: THIS ISLAND EARTH Signed by Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Abe Silverstein who named the Apollo Missions

[Charles Agvent]

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[ARMSTRONG,  Neil;  ALDRIN, Buzz] NICKS, Oran  W.  (editor).  THIS
ISLAND  EARTH. Washington: NASA 1970. First Edition. Quarto  (9-1/4" x
11-1/4")  bound in gilt-lettered maroon boards; 182 pages. Illustrated
with  mostly  color  photographs.  This copy  boldly  SIGNED  in  blue
felt-tip  pen by the first two men to walk on the moon: "All the  Luck
in  the  World/Neil Armstrong/Apollo 11" and "Buzz Aldrin." Above  the
Armstrong  and  Aldrin  signatures is a SIGNED INSCRIPTION  from  NASA
executive  Dr.  Abe  Silverstein who helped organize NASA in 1958 and 
who was appointed the Headquarters Director of Space Flight Programs 
with responsibility for developing and initiating all space missions. 
The mission of a manned journey to the Moon and back was conceived early 
in NASA’s history, and it was Silverstein who laid the groundwork for 
the mission and who named it "Apollo" in 1960 because he thought that 
the image of Apollo riding his chariot across the Sun was appropriate to 
the grand scale of the proposed program. Genuine Armstrong signatures 
are rather uncommon, especially in books and with the added notation of 
the name of his famous mission. Near Fine, without dustwrapper, as 
issued.                                                       $5000.00
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