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BUZZ ALDRIN SIGNED ROBERT GODDARD MINIATURE BOOK. The Autobiography of Robert Hutchings Goddard, Father of the Space Age. Early Years to 1927. Worcester, MA: Achille J. St. Onge, 1966. Miniature book, 2 7/8 x 2 1/8 inches, original blue leather stamped in gilt, all edges gilt. #1635 of 1926 copies (the year of Goddard's first liquid-propellant rocket launch). Provenance: Esther Goddard, with her inscription and provenance statement on included card. THIS COPY SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY BUZZ ALDRIN at the International Space Development Conference (ISDC) on May 25, 2001, of which Aldrin notes was 40 years after JFK's congratulatory speech to Alan Shepard as the first American in Space aboard the Mercury Spacecraft. Mrs. Goddard's provenance card and inscription note the connection of this book with Aldrin as he had brought a copy of with him to the Moon during Apollo 11, later depositing it in the Clark University Goddard Collection. Interestingly, Aldrin's father had studied with Robert Goddard and helped, along with Charles Lindbergh, to gain Guggenheim Foundation support.