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Robert Pearlman
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posted 10-13-2020 11:56 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
From Expedition 63 commander Chris Cassidy (via Twitter):
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.

Previously on collectSPACE (Sept. 5, 2013):

Astronaut reveals 'lucky charm' floating on space station

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."

Philip
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posted 10-14-2020 05:53 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Philip   Click Here to Email Philip     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Mass-produced available figurine?

Robert Pearlman
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posted 10-14-2020 11:15 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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
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posted 10-14-2020 11:40 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for thisismills   Click Here to Email thisismills     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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
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posted 10-15-2020 09:16 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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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