Winters National Bank and Trust check, 8.5 x 3, filled out in another hand and signed by Wright and Space and Aviation Pioneers, payable to Orville Wright for $100.00, May 21, 1932. Check is also signed on the front and reverse by 55 other space and aviation pioneers, with almost all signing on the reverse. Signers are: Chuck Yeager, (first human to fly faster than sound, Betty Skelton Frankman (first female aerobatics pilot in the US), Scott Crossfield (first human to fly Mach 2), Joe Kittinger (first to descend by parachute from the edge of space), Pavel Popovich, Bob White (first to reach space in a winged rocketplane), Valentina Tereshkova (first woman in space), Jerri Mock (first woman to fly solo around the world), Alexei Leonov (first to walk in space), Wally Schirra, Tom Stafford, Frank Borman, and Jim Lovell (first rendezvous in space), Dave Scott, Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, Bill Anders (first humans to leave earth's influence), Rusty Schweickart (first human to spacewalk with a portable life support pack), Buzz Aldrin and Mike Collins, Paul Weitz (pilot for the first space station mission, Skylab-2),Bryan Allen (pilot of the first human powered flight), Paul MacCready (designer of the first human powered aircraft), Joe Engle (pilot for the first space shuttle test flights reaching Mach 24), John Young (crew of the first space shuttle mission), Sally Ride (first American woman in space), Bruce McCandless (first to perform an unthethered free flight in space), Kathy Sullivan (first American woman to walk in space), Jake Garn (first politician to fly in space), Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager (crew for the first non-stop flight around the world), Richard Branson (first person to cross the Atlantic by balloon), Dennis Tito (world's first privately funded ‘space flight participant), Steve Fossett (first to fly non-stop solo around the world), Burt Rutan (designer of the first privately funded journey into space), Mike Melvill and Brian Binnie (pilots for the first privately funded journey into space), Jennifer Trosper (mission manager for Spirit, directing the movements of the first rover to traverse Mars), and Anousheh Ansari, (world's first female privately funded ‘space flight participant’). In fine condition, with several vertical folds, lightly affecting a few signatures, expected stamps and holes, and two small pinholes to left side. An amazing assemblage which would be impossible to duplicate. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.
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