NASA / Apollo memorabilia...

UWG · May 23, 2022

My wife and I found this (memorial plaque?) just yesterday while clearing out the flat of my father in law.
According Google, Aeroitalia and Finmeccanica are both defence Groups involved in the italian Consortium for constructing the Spaeclab for the ESA. I was very exited founding this an have to do some more research about that.
Any experts from Italy here who can give more input?

10mmauto · May 23, 2022

I love space stuff....

tpatta · May 27, 2022

Nothing super rare but I had the privilege to meet Alan Bean many years ago on a book tour.

fiberguy · May 27, 2022

tpatta
Nothing super rare but I had the privilege to meet Alan Bean many years ago on a book tour.

I met Alan Bean as well, he gave a speech at trade conference I was at in Houston. He painted a lot of astronaut related "portraits", from the looks of it I would bet he was the one who did the pics for this book.

Waltesefalcon · May 27, 2022

I have a wooden X-15 model I bought a couple of years ago.

Watch my Whisky · May 28, 2022

I have space dust in my bones.

Fish70 · May 28, 2022

pdxleaf
Besides the white spacesuit authographs on NASA lithographs, these other items interested me.

A certificate I received while working for NASA during the 25th anniversary. We didn't get money for bonuses but we did get patches and stickers

An autograph from Cooper and Conrad, who carried a Glycine Airman And Bulova Astronaut into space

A cocktail napkin signed by Neil A. From the family auction. Trying to imagine Armstrong signing this in a bar, it could be a great pickup line.

Lots of Apollo-Soyuz stuff

An early Ed White signature

Snoopy of course

A Buzz Aldrin picture from his own collection

A few pictures from the world tour that followed the Apollo 11 landing

Collecting memorabilia is a fun hobby. Random item

You can tell Collins really wished he was driving instead of sitting in back.

pdxleaf · May 28, 2022

Fish70
You can tell Collins really wished he was driving instead of sitting in back.

Oh yeah, not too relaxed. Buzz on the other hand is enjoying himself.

bombaywalla · May 28, 2022

Some really excellent space memorabilia, guys! especially the autographs.
And, I’m jealous of you guys who work or worked for nasa. I’m quite into flight, space & aeronautics & always wanted to work at nasa or jpl but never did. the closest I got was applying for a position at APL at John’s Hopkins but they didn’t need or want my skill set…☹️

Emeister · May 31, 2022

Walrus
I was wondering if anybody had read any books on the “psychology” of space flight. Like how does it change perspective. Have some had “spiritual awakenings” or is it more of a scientific awakening?

I haven't read it yet but I think the book that you are looking for is probably "To rule the night" by Jim Irwin.

"In 1971, during the U.S. Apollo 15 space mission, James Irwin became the eighth person to walk on the moon. Irwin experienced the lunar mission as a religious awakening and later founded an evangelical Christian religious organization."

Omegafanman · May 31, 2022

I have been following (one very small step) @SpeedyPhill and bought some original NASA issued photos. I need to unpack them and get them framed at some point. I also have some 1/6th scale Astronaut models - but only Gene Cernan is on display and I have a boxed original of him anyway. I also have 'that Speedy photo' of Buzz on the moon in my home office.
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morethan1 · May 31, 2022

man... this is a lot of cool stuff

jsducote · Jun 2, 2022

Are we posting books? I have a few ...

That last one has no fewer than 20 signatures, which I tried to show in collage.

pdxleaf · Jun 2, 2022

jsducote
Are we posting books? I have a few ...

That last one has no fewer than 20 signatures, which I tried to show in collage.

SWEET! I just started doing this. Found a couple at my local book stores (Lovell, Cernan and Krantz) and am looking for more. You've got several I haven't seen.

In the middle of this now. He does a great job of describing the difficulties of space walks. I didn't realize Cernan was the third space walker after Leonov and White.

tpatta · Jun 3, 2022

jsducote
Are we posting books? I have a few ...

That last one has no fewer than 20 signatures, which I tried to show in collage.

Show off. 😁

SpeedyPhill · Jun 4, 2022

As with everything... there's NASA memorabilia ... and NASA memorabilia
For me Apollo memorabilia must be time-period, and IMHO the best books to collect are the NASA SP-series (Special Publications) which were printed for professional users, and the NASA EP-series (Educational Publications) which were printed for the general public.
These books were made for each and every Apollo mission, and can still be found today...
A great example of NASA SP-201: Analysis of Apollo 8 photography and visual observations (338 pages softcover)

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And it's counterpart NASA EP-66 : Apollo 8 Man around the Moon (24 pages softcover)

SpeedyPhill · Jun 4, 2022

Of course there's also Omega/Spaceflight related memorabilia...
Most recently this topic has become part of the discussion after the MoonwatchUniverse Spacefarers' wrist watches lecture/talk I have given now in 33 countries & counting 😉
On the left a 1994 Apollo 11 stand used in window shops, from a time when Omega got the timing correct (remember 2019 boxes 😗).
On the right a larger Omega plexiglass display showing 22 logos of the Gemini, Apollo and Skylab spaceflight missions, made in 2007.
Only 8 out of 10 Gemini missions are shown as Gemini III & Gemini IV didn’t have an official mission logo.
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SpeedyPhill · Jun 4, 2022

On more thing...
As soon as Omega became aware of the use of their Speedmaster chronograph 105.003 on a NASA spaceflight mission, they started an advertising campaign. Instead of using the excellent NASA photographs, Omega choose to use artworks depicting the spacewalk. However, these only showed a single Omega Speedmaster strapped over the forearm of Edward White’s Gemini G-4C spacesuit.
The earliest “ Omega Gemini IV “ brochure in our collection is an early 1967 printed in Madrid Spain. It has 16 pages and measures 21 by 14,5 centimeters. Anyone knows of earlier use/prints ?
Scan of a detail on the cover is shown here…

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For this statuette made in 2015, I had the copper plaque made with text about the Speedmasters 105.003-64 worn...
Again it took Omega "some time" to reveal, that the first Speedmaster chronographs used by NASA were in fact 105.003-63
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SpeedyPhill · Jun 4, 2022

As the topic is about Apollo memorabilia... and Apollo 8 is my favorite mission
December 1968, as Apollo 8 was rescheduled as the first mission to orbit the Moon, NASA & Omega watches brought out a hard cardboard mission analyser so spaceflight fans could follow each stage of this historic mission, from launch to circum-lunar orbit and back to Earth.
On Christmas afternoon, the crew made their fifth television broadcast and confirmed the Moon was grey like plaster or a sort of grayish beach sand.
Of course the Apollo 8 circum-lunar flight will always be remembered for the Earth rise photo made by LMP William Anders 👍
This cardboard mission analyzer was part of the NASA press kit, a superb souvenir from the days when Omega was selling watches & passion !
(Photo: MoonwatchUniverse)
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pdxleaf · Jun 9, 2022

Just arrived today, a signed copy of Pogue's autobiography.

NASA / Apollo memorabilia...

UWG

10mmauto

tpatta

fiberguy

Waltesefalcon

Watch my Whisky

Fish70

pdxleaf

bombaywalla

Emeister

Omegafanman

morethan1

jsducote

pdxleaf

tpatta

SpeedyPhill

SpeedyPhill

SpeedyPhill

SpeedyPhill

pdxleaf

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