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Aztecdoug
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posted 05-24-2005 08:29 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Aztecdoug   Click Here to Email Aztecdoug     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Following the lead of a similar thread, I pose this question: Which of the Apollo 7 – 17 crew signed portraits would be most desirable to have in your collection? You can choose your own rating system… I just thought it would fun to bring up.

Now, I am just winging it here to get the discussion going…

Apollo 11
Apollo 16
Apollo 13 flown
Apollo 8
Apollo 10
Apollo 14
Apollo 13 original
Apollo 17
Apollo 15
Apollo 7
Apollo 9
Apollo 12

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Crsh4Csh
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posted 05-24-2005 09:29 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Crsh4Csh   Click Here to Email Crsh4Csh     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
AP 11 the first,and AP 17 the last....

WAWalsh
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posted 05-25-2005 09:29 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for WAWalsh   Click Here to Email WAWalsh     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Since the only complete crew that I have is an Apollo 12 crew photo, I would be happy with any additional signed crew photo that anyone might wish to donate. :-) Turning to the question, if I were to rank them, I suspect I would go with this order:

Apollo 11 (first lunar landing)
Apollo 8 (first to the Moon)
Apollo 13 (perhaps, oddly, the best known Apollo mission)
Apollo 10 (an unique crew, as a kid I thought the names for CM and LM were great, would have Gene Cernan inscribe it with the first curse words broadcast from lunar orbit)
Apollo 15 (key mission for what it discovered)
Apollo 16 (key mission for what it disproved)
Apollo 14 (Alan Shepard)
Apollo 17 (final lunar mission)
Apollo 12 (forever doomed to be that subsequent mission, despite a pinpoint landing and a dedicated, fun loving crew)
Apollo 7 (first Apollo mission)
Apollo 9 (someone needed to be at the tail end)

Rob Sumowski
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posted 05-25-2005 01:12 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Rob Sumowski   Click Here to Email Rob Sumowski     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
For me, a crew signed Earthrise photo of Apollo 8 is my most desirable.

nelyubov
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posted 05-27-2005 07:00 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for nelyubov   Click Here to Email nelyubov     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Although not listed --- I'll take an Apollo 1 anytime!!!

Mark

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posted 05-27-2005 04:55 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for RMH   Click Here to Email RMH     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
My preferences would be:

Apollo 11, 13, 17, 8, 14, 16, 15, 12, 7, 10, 9

Apollo 1 would be my second pick if given that choice.

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posted 05-27-2005 05:50 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for mensclub10@aol.com   Click Here to Email mensclub10@aol.com     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Aztecdoug:
[ Which of the Apollo 7 – 17 crew signed portraits would be most desirable to have in your collection?

Most desirable is a question that is hard to answer. Rarity, value, and importance all contribute to desirabilty. My order-

1) Apollo 1 (most rare and expensive)
2) Apollo 11 (most important and 2nd most
expensive)
3) Apollo 13 (very rare with Swigert)
4) Apollo 8 (first flight to the moon and
2nd most important)
5 Apollo 16 (expensive with Mattingly
and Young)
6) Apollo 7 (first flight after Apollo 1
disaster. With Eisele, a very
undervalued crew)
7) Apollo 10,
13(Mattingly)
14, (all fairly equal in value,
15, importance and rarity)
17
8) Apollo 9 (fairly easy to acquire)
9) Apollo 12 (least expensive and readily
available)

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posted 05-27-2005 11:39 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for albatron@aol.com   Click Here to Email albatron@aol.com     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
Originally posted by mensclub10@aol.com:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Aztecdoug:
[ Which of the Apollo 7 – 17 crew signed portraits would be most desirable to have in your collection?

Most desirable is a question that is hard to answer. Rarity, value, and importance all contribute to desirabilty. My order-

1) Apollo 1 (most rare and expensive)
2) Apollo 11 (most important and 2nd most
expensive)
3) Apollo 13 (very rare with Swigert)
4) Apollo 8 (first flight to the moon and
2nd most important)




Interesting you note Apollo 8 as the SECOND most important. I wonder why you do that?

Thanks!

Al

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posted 05-28-2005 08:57 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for mensclub10@aol.com   Click Here to Email mensclub10@aol.com     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Easy Al. If I'm not wrong, it was the first time we (actual human beings) left our planet to venture to a new (actually very old) world.

Mike Isbell
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posted 05-28-2005 09:26 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Mike Isbell     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I would rank the Apollo crews as follows:

Apollo 11 (first lunar landing)
Apollo 13 (Aquarious saves the crew)
Apollo 8 (first circumlunar flight)
Apollo 10 (dress rehersal for landing)
Apollo 7 (return to flight)
Apollo 9 (first manned LM flight)
Apollo 12 (return to the moon)
Apollo 14 (ten years later)
Apollo 15 (a ride on the moon)
Apollo 17 (farewell to the moon)
Apollo 16 (Orion on the moon)

I am basing my ranking on the amount of attention that was given to the missions at the time of flight as I best remember. The demand for signed crew photos probably starts on this reasoning and is then adjusted by the signing polices of the individual crew members.

Aztecdoug
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posted 10-25-2006 04:35 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Aztecdoug   Click Here to Email Aztecdoug     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I was talking to a friend about the topic of most valuable crew signed photos. After a little I recalled having started a similar thread some time back.

I was wondering what folks think the most valuable Apollo crew signed photos would be?

What do you think of this ranking?

Apollo 1
Apollo 11
Apollo 13 flown
Apollo 16
Apollo 8
Apollo 10
Apollo 14
Apollo 13 original
Apollo 15
Apollo 17
Apollo 7
Apollo 9
Apollo 12

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mjanovec
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posted 10-25-2006 05:42 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for mjanovec   Click Here to Email mjanovec     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I would probably prefer an Apollo 8 signed pic over an Apollo 11 signed pic from a standpoint of which mission I like more. To me, it is THE most important Apollo mission (which I think Al might have been hinting at too). If someone offered me a free signed litho of each (which would be very nice of them to do ), I'd obviously pick the A11 litho...which I could then sell and pick up an Apollo 8, plus a handful of the other missions.

Actually, I told myself I wasn't going to collect Apollo crew completions a while back...at least not until I complete other aspects of my collecting first. It's tough enough to find some of these guys individually, let alone trying to complete the crews. Nearly every crew has a "tough" or expensive signature: Eisele, Anders, Young (x2), Armstrong, Swigert, Shepard/Roosa (together on an A14 piece), Irwin (on a photo with Scott and Worden), Mattingly, and Evans. Only A9 and A12 are "easy" and relatively affordable.

leslie
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posted 10-30-2006 04:36 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for leslie   Click Here to Email leslie     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I strongly believe the Apollo 7 mission is so underated by many of us. It was the first manned mission and following the disaster of Apollo 1, ironed out and tested so many important technical questions for the benefit of later crews. Plus, the Eisele signature makes it very rare, and adds to the importance of a crew signed picture.

My three?

Apollo 11
Apollo 7
Apollo 8

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robsouth
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posted 11-02-2006 06:26 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for robsouth     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Apollo 11 - the mission to have.

heng44
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posted 11-02-2006 06:31 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for heng44   Click Here to Email heng44     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
How many collectors own an autographed photo of the Apollo 2TV-1 crew (Kerwin, Brand and Engle)? How rare is that?

Ed

413 is in
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posted 11-02-2006 09:48 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for 413 is in   Click Here to Email 413 is in     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
Originally posted by heng44:
How many collectors own an autographed photo of the Apollo 2TV-1 crew (Kerwin, Brand and Engle)? How rare is that?

Ed


Can't speak to rarity but the only one that I remember seeing was in the Don Willis collection. It was a crew signed version of the above "beatnik" photo. Very nice indeed.

This crew and the Proud Bird with the Heavy Tail is but a footnote in the history of Apollo yet they played a pivotal role in getting the U.S. space program back on track and headed to the moon post Apollo 1. Can you imagine the fun it must have been spending 8 days cooped up in a cramped spacecraft in 1g?

[on edit] These guys really do deserve major credit. Apollo 1 painfully demonstrated just how dangerous the business of spaceflight really is, even when you are not flying. I’ve no doubt this crew, during those 8 days in 1968, reflected more than once on the ultimate fate suffered by the first Apollo crew in just the year prior.

I've got them in my top-ten list of Apollo crews. I've even got a license plate to prove it!

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[Edited by 413 is in (November 02, 2006).]

Machodoc
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posted 11-03-2006 12:22 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Machodoc   Click Here to Email Machodoc     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
My Apollo 1 crew auto pix is from Donnis. I've always throught that 7 was exremely underrated because it went so well from a technical point of view. Nothing in life is preordained, so 7 could have also been an unmitigated disaster.

For my money 8 and 11 were the most audacious of the "pre-planned" missions because of the risks they entailed by simply being first. Of couse 13 was a triumph of it's own, but the best thing about 13 was that it was a triumph that we didn't have to repeat.

It's basically very hard to rank these missions because they all served as essential building blocks for the next series. The next one could have not taken place without the previous one. The luck of the draw stipulates that any one of these successful missions (and thank god we didn't have any unsuccessful missions during this stretch) could have had enough problems to push the program further out. The fact that we completed them in the order and manner that was done is a wonderful testament ot them all, each and every one!

Steve

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posted 11-03-2006 02:23 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for poofacio   Click Here to Email poofacio     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I have them all and my favourite is still Apollo 8, it was the first and made Christmas memorable for one year at least!
A close second is Apollo 13, probably more of an achievement than actually getting there! I'd then go for 11 , 1, 17 and the rest. It's just how you feel about them and how you felt at the time!

Gilbert
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posted 11-03-2006 12:34 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Gilbert   Click Here to Email Gilbert     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
1. Apollo 8
2. Apollo 1
3. Apollo 11
The remainder all tie for 4th place.

poofacio
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posted 12-12-2006 02:46 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for poofacio   Click Here to Email poofacio     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
Originally posted by heng44:
How many collectors own an autographed photo of the Apollo 2TV-1 crew (Kerwin, Brand and Engle)? How rare is that?

Ed


I have one. I am Looking for a cover! Ever the optimist!

[Edited by poofacio (December 12, 2006).]

AstronautBrian
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posted 12-12-2006 03:14 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for AstronautBrian   Click Here to Email AstronautBrian     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Apollo 2TV-1 crew (Kerwin, Brand and Engle)

This is the first that I've ever heard of this. Can anyone point me to more information?

Thanks in advance!

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