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Topic:	Chris Cassidy's 'tiny spaceman' lucky charm

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<table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width="600"><TR><td bgcolor="#000000"><TABLE BORDER=0 cellpadding=4 border=0 cellspacing=1 WIDTH="100%"><TR bgcolor="#660000"><TD COLSPAN=2><CENTER>T O P I C     R E V I E W</CENTER></TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#494949"><TD valign=top>Robert Pearlman</TD><TD>From Expedition 63 commander Chris Cassidy (<A HREF="https://twitter.com/Astro_SEAL/status/1316055005841956865" TARGET=_blank>via Twitter</A>): <BLOCKQUOTE>If I was on the next mission to the Moon, I would have to bring this tiny spaceman with me! He's flown with me on all of my missions and was in my uniform pocket for all the SEAL missions I have been a part of. Kind of like a good luck charm.</BLOCKQUOTE> <center><a href="http://www.collectspace.com/review/iss63_cassidy_spaceman_charm01-lg.jpg" target="AirLock"><img src="http://www.collectspace.com/review/iss63_cassidy_spaceman_charm01.jpg" width="400" height="267" border="0"></a><a href="http://www.collectspace.com/review/iss63_cassidy_spaceman_charm02-lg.jpg" target="AirLock"><img src="http://www.collectspace.com/review/iss63_cassidy_spaceman_charm02.jpg" width="400" height="267" border="0"></a></center>Previously on collectSPACE (Sept. 5, 2013): <blockquote><a href="http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-090513b.html">Astronaut reveals 'lucky charm' floating on space station</a>An astronaut working onboard the International Space Station (ISS) has revealed his "lucky charm" — a miniature toy astronaut figurine — in a video recently sent down to Earth."I was going through personal things [that] I have flown for people and came across my own personal item I'd like to share with everybody," NASA astronaut and Expedition 36 flight engineer Chris Cassidy said in the video, which was released online Wednesday (Sept. 4). "This little astronaut guy has seen better days but he has special meaning." </blockquote> <center><iframe width="400" height="225" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KQa2MZSXnpw" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen>

Philip

Mass-produced available figurine?

Robert Pearlman

I remember similar, if the not the same, small die-cast figures being for sale at NASA and museum gift shops. There are similar ones on the market now configured as a keychain (though the details of the EMU spacesuit have been simplified).

thisismills

Manufacturer was possibly Echo Toys as I remember seeing something like these in the gift shops. For comparison to the image posted above, here are a few examples from eBay.

Robert Pearlman

Echo Toys appears to have picked up the molds after Action Products International (with their Space Voyagers line) went out of the toy business in 2009. Action Products may have made Cassidy's figure, as the company began as a distributor of educational toys in 1977.

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