Vintage ballpoint signatures, “Charlie Bassett” and “W. A. Anders,” and an ink signature “Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr.,” on an off-white 6.5 x 4 lined collector’s card. In very fine condition, with collector notations to card. Bassett was one of the third group of astronauts named by NASA in October 1963. In addition to participating in the overall astronaut-training program, he had specific responsibilities pertaining to training and simulators. On November 8, 1965, he was selected as pilot of the upcoming Gemini 9 mission. Bassett and pilot Elliott See died on February 28, 1966, in the crash of a T-38 trainer jet. The jet crashed into a building at the Lambert Field airport in St. Louis, Missouri not long before Gemini 9 flew. COA Scott Cornish and R&R COA.
