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lunareagle
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posted 04-19-2007 03:30 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for lunareagle   Click Here to Email lunareagle     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
For those of you interested, the Robbins Company name has officially been renamed to TharpeRobbins. The company was actually sold a few years back. I believe that the first medals to be struck under this new name are the STS 121, STS 115 and STS 116 medals.

I am not sure whether we should call this the end of the Robbins era or just let it continue, or whether we should now refer to the new medals as Tharpes or TharpeRobbins?

Any thoughts from the crowd?

SRB
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posted 04-19-2007 05:49 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for SRB   Click Here to Email SRB     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Same company, slightly different name. Why confuse the issue? Keep calling them Robbins medallions.

Robert Pearlman
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posted 04-19-2007 11:04 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Seeing as though the astronauts themselves don't refer to them as "Robbins" — many of the shuttle astronauts are unaware of who or what Robbins is and refers to the medals as simply "astronaut medallions" — the moniker is a nickname coined (no pun intended) by collectors and has come to apply more to the type of medal rather than to their manufacturer.

lunareagle
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posted 04-20-2007 08:33 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for lunareagle   Click Here to Email lunareagle     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Robbins Medals it is then.

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