Gerald (Gerry) Griffin Autographed Apollo/Soyuz Test Project/Saturn IB Color 8x10 Photo- JSA Hologram #EE63170

Gerald "Gerry" Griffin is an American aeronautical engineer and former NASA official, who served as flight director during Apollo program and director of Johnson Space Center, succeeding Chris Kraft in 1982. After the Apollo Program was completed Gerry served in other roles at NASA, first in multiple positions at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C., then as the deputy director of the Dryden (now Armstrong) Flight Research Center in California, then as deputy director of the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. In 1982 he returned to Houston as director of the Johnson Space Center. Gerald "Gerry" Griffin has hand signed this 8x10 Photo fromJuly 15, 1975, the Liftoff of the Saturn IB launch vehicle (SA-210), for the Apollo/Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) mission, from Launch Complex 39B, Kennedy Space Center, Florida. The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) was the first international docking of the U.S. Apollo spacecraft and the U.S.S.R. Soyuz spacecraft in space. The objective of the ASTP mission was to provide the basis for a standardized international system for docking of manned spacecraft.. JSA Hologram #EE63170 and Certificate of Authenticity.