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. O'Leary's Ph.D. thesis in 1967 was on the Martian surface. 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. O'Leary was the only planetary scientist in the NASA Astronaut Corps during the Apollo program. In April 1968, O'Leary resigned from the Astronaut Corps prior to completing the training program. Good condition. Part of Single Vendor collection. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide.