Twelve color photos of various NASA astronauts, ranging in size from 6.75 x 8.75 to 10 x 8, each signed by the astronaut pictured, with all but one inscribed to Bob Bryce, including: Fred Haise, Charlie Duke, Rusty Schweickart (2), Al Worden, James Lovell, Wally Schirra, Vance Brand, Bob Crippen, Bob Overmyer, Don Peterson, and Joe Allen. A total of nine photos are either matted or mounted to sizes ranging between 8.75 x 10.5 and 11 x 14. In overall very good to fine condition, with general toning and some spots of foxing to Worden and Haise, and several photos bearing trimmed edges. Accompanied by a letter of provenance from the children of the original recipients. As the owners of a Buick car dealership on Florida's Merritt Island, Bob Bryce and his wife Virginia became acquainted with various KSC personnel and NASA astronauts between 1968 and 1975. The pair offered to lend cars to the wives of astronauts in town for launches at the Kennedy Space Center, and were repaid by the astronauts in the form of signed photographs and flown artifacts.
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