The piece includes its original display stand with descriptive plaque

The three astronauts returned to Earth and splashed down safely on February 9

He also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012

olivine-phyric shergottite

certified on the backside

Mercury MR-3 – MA-9 space flown artifact presentation Apollo 9 The piece includes its originalMercury MR 3 thru MA 9 flown artifact 8x10'' presentation containing flown artifacts from all manned Mercury flights. Project Mercury was the first manned spacecraft program in the US. The program included unmanned test flights prior to the Mercury 7 astronauts, flying six manned missions. Two suborbital missions (MR 3 and MR 4), launched using Redstone rockets, were followed by four orbital flights (MA 6, MA 7, MA 8 and MA 9) using Atlas rockets. All