Bidspirit auction | NASA Astronaut Brian O'Leary signed

NASA Astronaut Brian O'Leary signed V-2 Mars Landing Space Envelope 3 Sept 1976 Kennedy PM. During his graduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley, O'Leary published several scientific papers on the atmosphere of Mars.[4][5][6] O'Leary's Ph.D. thesis in 1967 was on the Martian surface.[7] Because of his professional specialty and youth, O'Leary was selected as an astronaut in conjunction with a possible NASA human mission to Mars then envisaged for the 1980s contingent on post-Apollo funding.[1][8] O'Leary was the only planetary scientist in the NASA Astronaut Corps during the Apollo program.[9] In April 1968, O'Leary resigned from the Astronaut Corps prior to completing the training program. Good condition Est.