Rare bright blue Grumman Apollo Launch Team jacket presented to Grumman Aerospace employee Milton Cohen for the launch of the Apollo 11 mission. The zippered jacket, size 44, retains its original Rugby Sportcraft label to the inside collar, which is also marked in felt tip, “C. Schwartz.” The left and right chest bear embroidered Apollo ‘Launch Team’ and Grumman logo patches, and the back is prominently adorned with white stitching, “GRUMMAN, LM-5 STM.” In fine condition, with some white marks to collar.
Originates from the collection of Milton G. Cohen, a former aeronautical engineer who worked for the Grumman Aerospace Corporation in Bethpage, New York, throughout the 1960s. Cohen served as a manager of the STM (Spacecraft Test Manager) for LM-5, the lunar module that flew on the Apollo 11 mission. Cohen’s son, Warren, attests that ‘this jacket was given to my father by NASA preceding the Apollo 11 launch while he was stationed at Kennedy Space Center as part of the Grumman Apollo Launch Team…Cory Schwartz, my dad’s grandson, had it in his possession for several years and wrote his name on the inside collar label.’
