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Forum:	Models & Toys
Topic:	Frank Borman's lunar module model (1969)

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Your Reply: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	[QUOTE]Originally posted by Captain Apollo: [B]I wonder where it is now?[/B][/QUOTE]
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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>Captain Apollo</TD><TD>Is this a Grumman lunar module model? <BLOCKQUOTE>American astronaut Colonel Frank Borman (left), Commander of the Apollo 8 mission, receives a model of an Apollo spacecraft from Tony Benn (1925-2014) outside Millbank Tower, home of the Ministry of Technology in London, 3rd February 1969. He is on a nineteen-day goodwill tour of Europe. (Photo by Central Press/Hulton Archive/<A HREF="https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/american-astronaut-colonel-frank-borman-commander-of-the-news-photo/901887140" TARGET=_blank>Getty Images</A>)</BLOCKQUOTE> <center><img src="http://www.collectspace.com/review/captainapollo/borman_lunar_module_model01.jpg" width="400" height="312"></center></TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#333333"><TD valign=top>Rick Mulheirn</TD><TD>Yes. On a black walnut “VIP” executive base.</TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#494949"><TD valign=top>Captain Apollo</TD><TD>I wonder where it is now?</TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#333333"><TD valign=top>Robert Pearlman</TD><TD>Borman <A HREF="http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-120918a-borman-collection-eaa-museum.html">donated his collection</A> to the EAA Aviation Museum in Oshkosh, Wisconsin in 2018. That said, I don't see a lunar module model in the <A HREF="https://www.eaa.org/eaa-museum/museum-exhibits/featured-exhibits/the-borman-collection" TARGET=_blank>available online imagery</A> of the exhibit.I wonder, though, if the caption is incorrect. Why would a British politician present Borman with a model that the astronaut could have easily received from Grumman himself? A web search <A HREF="https://www.mediastorehouse.com.au/memory-lane-prints/mirror/1200to1299-01296/colonel-frank-borman-nasa-astronaut-commander-21853386.html" TARGET=_blank>appears to confirm</A> that it was Borman who was presenting the model to Tony Benn, instead.As such, maybe it is still on display somewhere in Millbank Tower.</TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#494949"><TD valign=top>Rick Mulheirn</TD><TD>Unless I am very much mistaken, the model was gifted by Borman to Tony Benn. Other images from the encounter show Benn studying the model. I see no reason why the UK Minister for trade and industry would be gifting an Apollo astronaut an Apollo Lunar module model.As we say in the UK, that would be like sending coals to Newcastle!</TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#333333"><TD valign=top>Captain Apollo</TD><TD>Correct. He gave it to Tony Benn when visiting the UK post Apollo 8. So my wonder was which filing cabinet of the UK Govt it has been lost in.</TD></TR></TABLE></td></tr></table>

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