RARE

VINTAGE

H & W

IMAGING CO. INC.

COCOA, FLORIDA

"ONE GAINT LEAP FOR MANKIND"

NARRATED

BY

LT. COL JOHN "SHORTY" POWERS

(THE VOICE OF MERCURY SPACE PROGRAM)

HISTORY

OF

APOLLO 8 - 11

50 FRAME COLOR FLIMSTRIP AND ONE LP RECORD

THIS PACKAGE IS VINTAGE AND RARE - A NARRATED HISTORY OF APOLLO 8 - 11 WITH 50 COLOR FILMSTRIP INCLUDED!

THESE IS A PAPER BIO OF Lt. COL POWERS WITH A SHORT NARRITIVE AND PICTURE (B&W)

PRODUCED IN 1969 BY H & W IMAGINEERING CO. INC, COCOA FLORIDA

LT. COL SHORTY POWERS WAS THE VOICE OF MERCURY

(He served as mission commentator for the six manned Mercury flights, introducing "A-OK" into the American vocabulary to signify procedures during the missions had proceeded as planned. He claimed astronaut Alan Shepard first used the expression during his Freedom 7 flight, but communication transcripts later showed he had not.^[4] In The Right Stuff, Tom Wolfe wrote that Powers had borrowed it "from NASA engineers who used it during radio transmission tests because the sharper sound of A cut through the static better than O)

THE ENTIRE COLLECTION COMES IN A COLOR BOX WITH NICE COLOR - THE BOX DOES SHOW ITS AGE

BOX HAS ROUNDED CORNERS, SMUGGES, AND TAPE RESIDUE - BUT FOR BEING OVER 45 YEARS OLD LOOKS GREAT

THIS FILMSTRIP IS INSIDE ITS CONTAINER MOST LIKELY IS NON-PLAYABLE SEEMS TO HAVE NOT AGED WELL.

THE LP RECORD HAS NEVER BEEN PLAYED

PLEASE AKS ANY AND ALL QUESTIONS - THIS IS AN "AS-IS" AUCTION

THIS ITEM IS LISTED AS "NEW" - BUT SHOULD BE CONSIDERED "NEW OLD STOCK"