Buzz Aldrin: American Icon
Buzz Aldrin: American Icon
Property from the Buzz Aldrin Family Trust
Buzz Aldrin's Goddard Trophy Plaque and Presentation Copy from Goddard's Widow of The Autobiography of Robert Goddard
Auction Closed
July 26, 06:15 PM GMT
Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 USD
Lot Details
Description
Robert H. Goddard Memorial Trophy Plaque. 6 by 4 inches. Bronze colored, intermittent tarnishing to recto and verso, two small circular marks to verso of plaque, indicative of where it was once affixed to a larger wooden plaque.
With:
Goddard, Robert H.
The Autobiography of Robert Hutchings Goddard. Worcester, Massachusetts: Achille J. St. Onge, 1966.
2 3/4 by 2 inches. 85 pp. on 46 leaves. Pages gilded at edge. Inscribed "No. 1752" on last page.
Signed and inscribed by Mrs. Robert H. Goddard, "For Colonel Edwin E. Aldrin, Astronaut for Apollo 11, with deepest admiration – Mrs. Robert H. Goddard"
Directly from the Personal Collection of Apollo 11 Lunar Module Pilot Buzz Aldrin
The Robert H. Goddard Memorial Trophy has been awarded by the National Space Club annually since 1958 to "an individual, group or program deemed to have made the most significant contribution to space activity in the previous year."
The 1970 Goddard Memorial Trophy was awarded to the Apollo 11 Astronauts by Mrs. Robert Goddard, widow of the "father of modern rocketry," on March 18th, in Washington, D.C.
REFERENCES:
"Dr. Robert H Goddard Memorial Dinner." National Space Club and Foundation. https://www.spaceclub.org/goddard-dinner.html
Associated Press. "Astronauts of Apollo 11 To Be Feted." The Times [Shreveport, LA], 6 Mar. 1970, p. 7-B
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