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Forum:	Hardware & Flown Items
Topic:	Flown hardware code of ethics for curators

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Your Reply: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	[QUOTE]Originally posted by Robert Pearlman: [B]With regards to items that were cut apart by NASA — or any previous owner — and why their new owner should behave any differently, perhaps a lesson can be taken from the Smithsonian. When the Smithsonian adds a new piece to their collection, regardless how it was handled prior to arriving at the museum, from the point it enters the building, it is treated with care and an eye toward preservation. Case in point, here is a quote from the ceremony that saw the donation of the Buzz Lightyear action figure that flew on the space shuttle: <BLOCKQUOTE>[i]"I am wearing blue gloves," [John] Lasseter said, holding up his covered hands. "I don't have a problem, it's just that Buzz Lightyear is normally used to small sticky hands in life, but now that he's been in orbit and he's now a part of the Smithsonian, they have us wear gloves to play with him."[/i]</BLOCKQUOTE> It doesn't matter that the astronauts who held the figure in space didn't wear gloves and it doesn't matter that before flying in space, the figure was literally a child's playtoy — the property of a Disney executive's son. Once it became Smithsonian property, it was an artifact to be treated accordingly. So raising past examples of cutting apart artifacts should be irrelevant to this discussion because what is being debated is what happens in the future, not in the past.[/B][/QUOTE]
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