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Topic: Museum "hidden treasures"
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BobbyA
Member Posts: 147
From: Northern Virginia
Registered: Jul 2002
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posted 09-30-2007 04:21 PM
   
I was wondering if anyone has a favorite artifact in the NASM (or any other museum). And not one of the "big-ticket items" like the Apollo 11 CM or Friendship 7. I think mine would be the golf club. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42988
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 09-30-2007 04:43 PM
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Originally posted by BobbyA:
I think mine would be the golf club.
Which golf club? If you are referring to Alan Shepard's golf club (or for that matter, Brian Duffy's shuttle duffer) at the National Air and Space Museum, then you are looking at a replica. Shepard's and Duffy's clubs are now on temporary display at the Kansas Cosmosphere, which marks a first for the Apollo 14 iron. It was previously on display at the USGA Golf House in New Jersey, where it has been since soon after Shepard returned from the Moon. To answer your original question though, I really don't have a favorite single item at the National Air and Space Museum, but I am particularly fond of the wall of artifacts in the Apollo to the Moon gallery. To me, it is part museum display, part store window.  |
BobbyA
Member Posts: 147
From: Northern Virginia
Registered: Jul 2002
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posted 09-30-2007 06:45 PM
Yeah, I know that it is a replica, but I still love it. I was there recently and in that "store window" of yours a little boy noticed the survival knife. He said "They must have taken that with them to kill the aliens." Priceless. |
DCCollector
Member Posts: 227
From: Washington, DC USA
Registered: Dec 2006
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posted 09-30-2007 10:23 PM
I am a big fan of the lunar module interior display with the continuous video loop. I could stand there for hours trying to imagine how it felt to come in for a landing on the moon. |
spaceheaded
Member Posts: 147
From: MD
Registered: Feb 2003
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posted 10-01-2007 11:32 AM
And while we are still in the Apollo to the Moon gallery at NASM, I always gaze in amazement (and with envy of the creative mind that produced the display) at the business end of the Saturn V. It's an illusion produced with just 1-1/4 real engine bells, and mirrors.
Bill |
space1
Member Posts: 853
From: Danville, Ohio
Registered: Dec 2002
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posted 10-01-2007 01:47 PM
One of the more clever uses of an artifact, and a treasure hidden in plain sight, is a tail fin of a Saturn I-B used as a projection screen. It's at the Kansas Cosmosphere in the Apollo gallery.------------------
John Fongheiser
President
Historic Space Systems, http://www.space1.com |
Jay Chladek
Member Posts: 2272
From: Bellevue, NE, USA
Registered: Aug 2007
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posted 10-02-2007 02:23 AM
My favorite of the small stuff is the Apollo 14 backup crew patch featuring Coyote and Roadrunner, with the classic "Beep Beep" (to which Al Shepherd replys "Beep Beep my ass"). They have one on display with other Apollo artifacts at the Cosmosphere and I believe it is a flown patch. |
collocation
Member Posts: 383
From: McLean, VA, USA
Registered: Feb 2004
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posted 10-02-2007 04:02 PM
A hidden artifact at NASM is in the gallery 209/Wright Flyer, as you leave the gallery on the right there is a small piece of wood from the orginal flyer that Neil Armstrong took with him to the moon, if you did not know it was there you walk right by it as you exit |
Ben Watson
Member Posts: 24
From: Jackson, MS USA
Registered: Dec 2002
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posted 10-02-2007 07:30 PM
Does anyone know what happened to the Robbins Medallions that were displayed below the crew portraits for each Gemini and Apollo mission in the Apollo to the Moon Gallery at the NASM? When I was there in March, I noticed that they had been removed. I thought that it was very impressive that you could see a flown (I assume) medallion from each mission. |
4allmankind
Member Posts: 1043
From: Dallas
Registered: Jan 2004
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posted 10-02-2007 07:53 PM
Great question Ben. I recall being told that they were all from the collection of Mike Collins. Can anyone confirm that? If so, might he have taken them back or is that not possible?
Jay |
mdmyer
Member Posts: 900
From: Humboldt KS USA
Registered: Dec 2003
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posted 10-03-2007 06:10 PM
quote:
Originally posted by space1:
One of the more clever uses of an artifact, and a treasure hidden in plain sight, is a tail fin of a Saturn I-B used as a projection screen.
This photo of the fin shows Rusty Schweickart giving a talk on the importance of people having dreams:  |
mdmyer
Member Posts: 900
From: Humboldt KS USA
Registered: Dec 2003
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posted 10-03-2007 06:12 PM
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Originally posted by Jay Chladek:
My favorite of the small stuff is the Apollo 14 backup crew patch featuring Coyote and Roadrunner, with the classic "Beep Beep" (to which Al Shepherd replys "Beep Beep my ass").
The Cosmosphere's card with this patch reads: "Flown Apollo 14 back up patch. Returned to Earth by Commander Alan Shepard."  |
MarylandSpace
Member Posts: 1337
From:
Registered: Aug 2002
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posted 10-04-2007 07:56 AM
In the teacher resource room at KSC, Gordon Coopers Mercury suit (I think without helmet) was in one corner of a second room. I must have seen it up close at least four times, each time dreaming about his Mercury flight and hearing some of the dialog from "The Right Stuff."When it was missing on my last visit I asked for its' whereabouts. . . someone from NASA or NASM discovered it and "recovered it." Garry |
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