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dogcrew5369
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posted 07-27-2012 11:43 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for dogcrew5369   Click Here to Email dogcrew5369     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I was wondering if the John Young and Bob Crippen signatures on this framed STS-1 print are legitimate. Any expert insight would be appreciated.

J.L
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posted 07-27-2012 11:51 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for J.L   Click Here to Email J.L     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I am voting autopen...

dogcrew5369
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posted 07-27-2012 11:58 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for dogcrew5369   Click Here to Email dogcrew5369     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
You see it, too. The loops in the Y's on Young seem sort of suspect or does he sign like that? I know it's been framed and stored a long time and I think it came from the 80's. Did Young and Crippen autopen in the 80's?

Robert Pearlman
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posted 07-28-2012 12:04 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
NASA has been using the autopen machine to fulfill autograph requests since 1959-60. So yes, the autopen was in use for the entire time that both STS-1 astronauts were in NASA's hire.

chet
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posted 07-28-2012 02:22 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for chet   Click Here to Email chet     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Both are autopens.

Greggy_D
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posted 07-28-2012 01:33 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Greggy_D   Click Here to Email Greggy_D     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Agreed. Definite autopen.

dogcrew5369
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posted 07-28-2012 06:36 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for dogcrew5369   Click Here to Email dogcrew5369     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Thanks. I was afraid it was an autopen.

DChudwin
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posted 07-29-2012 01:31 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for DChudwin   Click Here to Email DChudwin     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Agree that these are classic autopen signatures. John Young had that same autopen from Apollo on for literally decades.

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