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Skylab Program

Lot	Photo	Description	Realized
Lot 660		Space Models, NASA "Skylab" Model (26x24") This striking NASA 1:48 scale model is mounted on a square wooden base with a George C. Marshall Space Flight Center/Graphic Engineering and Models Division metal ID plate on one side and with a "MSFC#77283 ID tag on the other. The model is complete with two Solar Array Wings" and four individual "Solar Panels" in addition to an individual Command and Service Module attachment. All of the pieces are mounted in a custom, padded and fitted, foam shipping container with Marshall transit labels still attached. Other than some of the normal aging on the clear lucite base of the model and a minor flaw or two, it is in unually clean, complete condition. Of particular interest is the original 1975 NASA purchase order paperwork transfering ownership of the model from NASA/Marshall to North American Rockwell Space Division and a request letter from North American asking to borrow or purchase an example of this model. The original cost of the model is listed by NASA as $784.00 + $35 for the fitted carrying case. Don't you just wish!! This model is a rare find that is not often available. Estimated Value $7,500 - 10,000. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $9,988
Lot 661		Skylab & ASTP Programs, 1973-1975, Autographed Crew Patches. An unusual presentation mat (21x16") with Beta cloth crew patches from Skylab and ASTP inset into the mat. The patches from SL-2, SL-3 and ASTP have been crew signed (by the US crew only on the ASTP patch). An attractive piece of memorabilia signed with clear autographs. Unusual. Estimated Value $500 - 750. Ex. The NASA Pilot Jere Cobb collection. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $444
Lot 662		Skylab Program, c1973, Crew Autographs. A striking presentation piece consisting of a color photo of Skylab in space (9.5x7") mounted on a large presentation mat (framed to 21x 17.5") surrounded on three sides by the different Crew Patch decals with the signatures of the three crews alongside their patches. The piece is inscribed at top: "To Jere and Paula - with best wishes". Attractive, striking and unusual. Estimated Value $500 - 750. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $156
Lot 663		Skylab 2, 1973, FLOWN "Oxygen Tank" Debris (.5x1.5") The debris is mounted on a multicolor Skylab poster (16.5x21", professionally double matted to 26x31") that has been inscribed in gold: "To Pussycat with love / "Pete" / Charles Conrad, Jr. / Cdr. Skylab I". Included is a copy of a typed letter on NASA letterhead from the Leader, NASA Skylab Team, identifying the Skylab reentry debris specimen submitted for identification and authentication as being from an Oxygen Supply Tank of which there were six onboard Skylab as part of the Astronaut's Life Support System. An attractive piece of memorabilia presented in a unusual and seldom seen format. Estimated Value $350 - 500. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $108
Lot 664		Skylab 3, 1973, "Wives' Crew Patch" (4") This original patch was issued as a caricature of the flight's crew patch with a nude woman used in place of Leonardo da Vinci's famous nude man and the names of the crew wives (Sue (Bean), Helen-Mary (Garriott),and Gratia (Lousma)) in place of the names of the astronaut crew. Ardis Shanks, who was an artist in the Houston area (and Alan Bean's art teacher) drew the female figure. She and French journalist Jacques Tiziou both had patches made from this design, and Tiziou had an astronaut acquaintance secret a number of patches in the Skylab expedition 2 command module. "An interesting sidelight involves the wives' patch, a 'first' that was done without our knowledge. The first time we saw the 'wives' patch was when we arrived in orbit and began to open the storage lockers in the Command Module to get our gear out. Neatly pasted to the interior of three of these locker doors were decals of the "wives" patch. This was a great idea and consistent with one of our mottos, 'Never lose your sense of humor.'" (Jack Lousma, from "All We Did Was Fly to the Moon", and the Space Patch" web site, www.spacepatches.nl). ALSO included are reprints of two classic photos from the artist's collection including one of the three wives together with the artist. This patch is an important part of space "crew patch" history. Estimated Value $350 - 500. Ex. The artist Ardis Shanks collection. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $764
Lot 665		TMA-13/ISS, 2008, Wives' Crew Patch. Back in 1973, the wives of the second crew aboard the American space station Skylab proudly wore their own mission patch. To this date, the Skylab II Wives Patch is one of the most famous "unofficial" space patches. The main feature of the original Skylab II crew patch was Leonardo da Vinci's universal man. On the wives' patch, this figure had been replaced by a "universal woman". American artist Ardis Shanks painted the main element, a local Houston model called Cheir, in a "da Vinci" pose. Thirty-five years later, in 2008, Helen Garriott, one of the three wives of Skylab II, informed Ardis that her son Richard Garriott would fly aboard the Russian Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft to the International Space Station. Ardis could not resist designing a special patch for his mission, as she had done for his father's flight. Ardis kept close to the original artwork. As a subtle difference, she reversed the "universal woman", who is now backdropped by the Russian and American flags instead of the Sun and the Earth that were in the original patch. The six ladies' names on the patch are Tatiana (Lonchakov), Kelly (Garriott) and Renita (Fincke) - the Soyuz crew - on the left, and Natalia (Volkov), Chantal (Chamitoff) and Tatiana (Kononenko) - the current ISS-17 crew - on the right. Six stars in the American flag also symbolize these couples. (information per the "Space Patch" web site, www.spacepatches.nl). An important addition to any collection "unofficial" or "official" space patches from the artist's personal collection. Estimated Value $250 - 350. Ex. The artist Ardis Shanks collection. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold