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Topic: Moon Walk One medallion (pendant)
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derek
Member Posts: 297
From: N.Ireland.
Registered: Jul 2002
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posted 12-28-2002 09:08 AM
   
A framed certificate with a 2 inch "gold" medallion with the same wording as the Apollo 11 Manned Flight Awareness medallions. The reverse is numbered 146 — is it a recycled MFA medallion? |
oke
Member Posts: 35
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Registered: Jun 2003
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posted 08-19-2019 04:36 PM
So, Derek, not sure if you ever got answers to this post from 2002, but it seems that one or maybe two Manned Flight Awareness medallions were melted down to provide some indeterminate amount of flown metal for 200 medallions.cS member tnperri (Tim) has some info about the Moonwalk One medallion, and there's also this auction item description, cached at WorthPoint, which also has some information. From Tim's site: Metal from one NASA Apollo 11 MFA medallions received by Martin Seel was used in the making of the Moonwalk 1 medallions. Metal was sent to a manufacturer and supplier of custom designed medallions (Awards & Specialties Unlimited of Greenfield, MA) on two occasions. Each of the two orders was for 100 Moonwalk medallions for a total of 200 minted. The first hundred were purchased in October, 1997. The second lot of one hundred was purchased in early 1999. And from the item description at WorthPoint, info which pretty much confirms the use of the MFA medallions (though some of the info is not correct): The medallion is molded from an alloy containing actual metal from spacecrafts Columbia (the control module) and Eagle (the lunar module) that rode on top of Apollo 11 to the moon in July, 1969.Awards made from metal taken from the two spacecrafts were presented by NASA to key supporters of the Apollo 11 moon flight. Some of these awards were stored for nearly 40 years, and they were recently used to provide the alloy for the medallions offered in this auction. |
oke
Member Posts: 35
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Registered: Jun 2003
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posted 08-28-2019 02:23 PM
Well, just wanted to add the size comparison of the Moonwalk One medallion/pendant with the Apollo 11 MFA, just to show that, if one MFA medallion was used for each batch of 100 Moonwalk One medallions, then that's pretty tough to figure out how much flown metal is actually in its composition...Also, was curious if folks would know if this version happened to be from the second batch (from '99)? It has a number which seems to indicate that up to four digits could be used in the series, and it seems like, if 100 were planned for the first production in '97, then maybe Mr. Seel was hoping to get 10 times as many made in '99?  |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42981
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 08-28-2019 02:40 PM
The amount of flown material would be miniscule at best. All 200,000 of the original Apollo 11 Manned Flight Awareness medallions were minted primarily from unflown metal. The inclusion of the Eagle and Columbia components in the melt was symbolic. No effort was made (nor was it practical at the time) to ensure that every medallion had flown material included. The commercial Moonwalk One medallions were an attempt at turning a profit from a market that wasn't familiar with the Manned Flight Awareness medallions. |
oke
Member Posts: 35
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Registered: Jun 2003
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posted 08-28-2019 05:15 PM
So it sort of sounds like the main reason to make these medallions from melted Apollo 11 MFA medallions was similar to that of that other 30th anniversary medallion, then — to make some money, yet maybe not to help out some space exploration-related endeavor? | |
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