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TheHoof
·This is awesome! Thank you for pointing this out.
45 Years ago today Ron Evans lost his watch 12,830 miles from Earth...
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sevenhelmet
·Did he actually lose it? Or did he just fumble it or have it float off his wrist while inside the command module? I suspect the latter, based on where they were in the mission. I would think he'd have made an effort to find it later... Either way, I doubt it wound up floating through space or burning up in the atmosphere.
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TLIGuy
·Or did he just fumble it or have it float off his wrist while inside the command module?
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dialstatic
·Did he actually lose it? Or did he just fumble it or have it float off his wrist while inside the command module?
The latter. But speculating about the implications of the former, which is what some of us have been abusing this thread for, turns out to be fun 😉
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Professor
·Evans' watch was commandeered for an experiment. He later sold the band at auction but the watch is in a museum. So he may have lost the use of the watch on the mission but the watch itself was not lost.
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TLIGuy
·Evans' watch was commandeered for an experiment. He later sold the band at auction but the watch is in a museum.
I think you are mixing things up just a bit.
The Evans watch purchased by the Omega museum in 2015 for $245,000 was the one Evans commandeered from the heat flow experiment not his issued watch. The band you are referring to was the Velcro strap that was worn with his NASA issued Speedmaster and was sold at a Heritage auction in 2009 for $11,950.
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