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Topic: Frank Borman's lunar module model (1969)
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Captain Apollo
Member Posts: 292
From: UK
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted 01-03-2022 02:17 PM
   
Is this a Grumman lunar module model? 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/Getty Images)  |
Rick Mulheirn
Member Posts: 4421
From: England
Registered: Feb 2001
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posted 01-03-2022 02:53 PM
Yes. On a black walnut “VIP” executive base. |
Captain Apollo
Member Posts: 292
From: UK
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted 01-04-2022 10:47 AM
I wonder where it is now? |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 47661
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 01-04-2022 11:30 AM
Borman donated his collection to the EAA Aviation Museum in Oshkosh, Wisconsin in 2018. That said, I don't see a lunar module model in the available online imagery 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 appears to confirm 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. |
Rick Mulheirn
Member Posts: 4421
From: England
Registered: Feb 2001
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posted 01-04-2022 01:20 PM
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! |
Captain Apollo
Member Posts: 292
From: UK
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted 01-05-2022 09:49 AM
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. |
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