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Topic: Dale Cox's Apollo hardware transformed into art
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Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42981
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 09-02-2011 03:50 AM
   
MSNBC's Alan Boyle shares the story of Dale Cox III, a Seattle-area resident, who has surplus Apollo tanks scattered around his yard. 
Photo credit: Alan Boyle/MSNBC And not just any tanks: Most of these pieces are titanium components that were built for NASA's use on an Apollo lunar module.Dale's father, Dale W. Cox Jr., picked up all this metal back in 1970, when NASA decided to cut the Apollo moon program short. The Apollo 18, 19 and 20 missions were canceled, and the tanks were no longer needed. The elder Cox, a former astronaut candidate who was familiar with the rainbow look of titanium, spotted the pieces in a California scrap yard. His mother, an artist, added metal embellishments to the titanium — and collaborated with another artist, Jae Carmichael, to present an exhibit of the pieces titled "Titanium One" in 1971... Dale W. Cox Jr. was one of the 32 finalists for the Mercury program. His story is told in the upcoming book, Selecting the Mercury Seven: The Search for America's First Astronauts by Colin Burgess.The eBay sale of one of Cox's titanium tanks has been previously discussed here. |
micropooz
Member Posts: 1512
From: Washington, DC, USA
Registered: Apr 2003
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posted 09-03-2011 07:11 PM
I'm glad that some folks can picture this as art. Unfortunately, I see it as a piece of space history withering away in someone's backyard. Color me a barbarian...  |
SpaceAholic
Member Posts: 4437
From: Sierra Vista, Arizona
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 09-03-2011 09:16 PM
Based on charactoristics provided by Mr Cox (as noted in the affiliated thread), they are not Apollo. |
jr-transport
Member Posts: 31
From: Grunthal, MB, Canada
Registered: Apr 2010
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posted 09-04-2011 11:44 PM
Saw this tank advertised on eBay (I beleive) about a year or two ago. They were supposedly from the SM. | |
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