^Lot 290 Apollo 10 LM Docking Cue Card

Flown lunar module docking cue card flown to the moon on board Apollo 10. Card measures 3.5 1.5, with two strips of Velcro on the reverse, and provided information on the configurations for the reaction control system to be successfully docked with the command module. Card is signed on the reverse in blue felt tip, “Apollo X, Gene Cernan.” In fine condition.

Accompanied by a 2007 letter of authenticity from Cernan, which reads, in part: “This is to certify that the accompanying Apollo 10 LM (Lunar Module) Docking Cue Card was flown into low lunar orbit in May 1969 aboard the lunar module ‘Snoopy’ on the second manned mission to the moon. The Lunar Module Docking Cue Card is one of the lunar module (LM) cue cards we carried to the moon on Apollo 10. This flown Apollo 10 Docking Cue Card is an example of cue cards that were used in the lunar module ‘Snoopy’ during the spacecraft’s low level orbital pass over the lunar surface…This LM cue card has remained a treasured part of my personal space collection for more than thirty-five years, ever since NASA presented it back to me in 1969…This complete Lunar Module Docking Cue Card remains both a historic tool from one of the manned lunar voyages, a rare example of an astronaut flight-certified artifact returned from the Moon.”