Description: At DiligentiaGraphs our focus is to source out the best, authentic items and give you expedient and just service. Our goal is to deliver a five-star experience through prompt shipping and communication. Thank you for viewing our auction and feel free to ask any questions. Hand signed 4x6 inch photo by NASA flight director, John D. Hodge. Some great info about Mr. Hodge's career. Please note the signature is smudged from Mr. Hodge placing another photo on top of next photo he was signing for me.According to roundupreads.jsc.nasa.gov/roundup/1702: Hodge became NASA’s second flight director for the final solo flight of the Mercury Program, Mercury-Atlas 9, in which astronaut Gordon Cooper flew his Faith 7 spacecraft for 22 orbits of the Earth, setting the stage for the two-person crews of Gemini and the three-person crews of Apollo. As “blue flight” director, Hodge also became the first lead flight director other than Christopher C. Kraft, Jr. Through the 1960s, Hodge continued to serve as a flight director, managing the agency’s earliest human spaceflight missions in the Mercury and Gemini Programs, and leading flight control teams in the new Mission Control Center at NASA’s Johnson Space Center (then the Manned Spacecraft Center) in Houston, Texas. Hodge was on shift during the Gemini 8 mission of astronauts Neil Armstrong and David Scott, when a malfunctioning thruster put the crew into a dangerous spin and brought the mission to a premature conclusion. He was also on duty during the pre-launch test that resulted in the Apollo 1 fire. Hodge joined NASA as a member of the Space Task Group at Langley Field, Virginia, in 1959, and migrated with the rest of that team to Houston. He was chief of the Flight Control Branch in 1961, and chief of the Flight Control Division in 1963, retiring as a flight director in 1968. He became head of Johnson Space Center's Advanced Program Office where he helped design the last three Apollo lunar landings and follow-on programs. He left NASA in 1970, worked on projects in the United States and Canada, and spent five years at the U.S. Department of Transportation. Hodge returned to NASA in 1982 to manage space station design studies, and was named NASA’s associate administrator for space station in 1984, working on the Space Station Program, a precursor to the International Space Station. He left NASA in 1987 and formed J. D. Hodge and Co., an international management and aerospace consulting firm. Shipping is done within 24 hours of received payment. We ship our items in 6X9 envelopes, sent first class with tracking and well packed. We do our best to accommodate special shipping requests as needed. We do accept returns within 14 days that has been communicated and approved. We have a 15% fee on items that are restocked and do pay for return shipping. Refunds are given once items are returned in original condition. On all of our sold items we donate a percentage of profits to the Wounded Warrior project and to World War II museum in New Orleans, LA.
Price: 99.99 USD
Location: Mosheim, Tennessee
End Time: 2025-01-27T03:39:48.000Z
Shipping Cost: 3 USD
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Seller
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Industry: Space
Signed by: John Hodge
Signed: Yes
Autograph Authentication: Not Authenticated
Original/Reproduction: Original
