Name: VARIOUS ARTISTS
Brand: SIX WORKS: WERNHER VON BRAUN'S SPACECRAFT DESIGNS
Price: 8000.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

VARIOUS ARTISTS
SIX WORKS: WERNHER VON BRAUN'S SPACECRAFT DESIGNS
Including: four rocket models, one paintings, and one print, all relating to Wernher von Braun's designs for spacecraft in the 1950s
the largest model 72 in. high; the painting 12 x 16 in.

Randy Liebermann, Washington, D.C. (item 1 only).
Frederick I. Ordway III (1927-2014), Huntsville, Alabama (all works).
Acquired by the late owner from the above, 2003 (all works).

The models: Huntsville, Alabama, U.S. Space and Rocket Center, Blueprint for Space: Science Fiction to Science Fact, 1991; also New York, New York, IBM Gallery of Science and Art, 14 January-28 March 28 1992; Houston, Texas, Johnson Space Center Visitors' Center, 1992; Cape Canaveral, Florida, Spaceport USA Visitor Center, 1993; Washington, D.C., National Air and Space Museum, 5 May 1993-30 April 1994; Hampton, Virginia, Virginia Air and Space Center.

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1. ANONYMOUS
THE XR-1. The von Braun four-stage launch vehicle in its winged, recoverable fourth stage shortly after entering Earth orbit
gouache and airbrush on artist's board
12 x 16 in.
Executed circa 1955
Illustration for “Man and the Moon” (aired 28 December 1955), directed by Ward Kimball for a “Tomorrowland” episode of the Disneyland television series on ABC.

2. DAVID MERRIMAN, JR.
REUSABLE LAUNCH VEHICLE
Spacecraft model; plastic, paint and metal
72 in. tall when assembled
Executed circa 1992

3. DAVID MERRIMAN, JR.
LUNAR RECONNAISSANCE VEHICLE
Spacecraft model; plastic, paint and metal
32¹⁄₂ x 10 in. inches when assembled
Executed circa 1992

4. LEE STATON
MARS LANDING BOAT
Spacecraft model; plastic, paint and wood
33¹⁄₂ x 18 in. inches when assembled
Executed circa 1992

5. LEE STATON
MARS ORBITING VEHICLE
Spacecraft model; plastic
9³⁄₄ x 6 x 6 in. inches
Executed circa 1992

6. Color print, framed, of Rolf Klep's "Three-Stage Launch Vehicle being Readied for Flight."