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PRESENTED TO GORDON COOPER FROM CHARLES "PETE" CONRAD FLOWN cloth Gemini XI mission emblem, 4 ¼ inches tall and 3 inches wide. The central feature is a gold Roman numeral "XI" rising from the Earth with a white contrail behind. The mission's objectives are illustrated with a docked Gemini spacecraft and Agena vehicle with the large elliptical gold stitched orbit representing the high altitude orbit planned for this flight. A tethered spacewalking astronaut symbolizes Richard Gordon's planned EVA's. The crew member's last names are at the bottom in white thread. The emblem is displayed on a Typed Letter Signed by GORDON COOPER using his personal stationery. Displayed with a 10 by 8 inch color photograph of Conrad and Cooper exiting the crew suiting trailer as they start their journey to the launch pad. All mounted on and removable from a 12 ½ by 19 ½ inch dark blue mat board. GORDON COOPER'S signed provenance letter in full: "This flown Gemini XI emblem displayed below was presented to me by fellow Gemini Astronaut Charles "Pete" Conrad. Pete and I flew together on Gemini 5 during August 1965. We were the first space flight crew to have our own personal space mission "patch" that we wore on our space suits. We carried a few extra of our own mission "patches" on the Gemini 5 flight as did later crews on their flights during the Gemini program. Pete carried a few like this one below on the Gemini XI flight during September 12 through 15, 1966. He and Richard Gordon docked with an Agena target vehicle and used its large rocket engine to establish a new world high altitude record of 850 miles. Richard did a couple of spacewalks on the flight too. Pete had one of the most distinguished careers of any astronaut. Not only did he fly two Gemini missions, he was the third man to walk on the Moon during Apollo 12 in 1969 then commanded the first Skylab mission in 1973."