posted 12-16-2008 03:05 AM               

As an example, if you had an Apollo 11 Flight Plan and you had an opportunity to get it signed by Dave Scott - would you? I realize this is somewhat hypothetical, but if the situation presented it self like the example above what would you do? I would rather have Dave Scott sign something from Apollo 15, but on the other hand having a moonwalker from another mission sign an Apollo 11 item seems ok in the context of Apollo (although not ideal). I guess a more extreme case would be for an astronaut to sign a photo of another astronaut but I rather doubt they would want to do that anyway. I don’t mean to diminish the value of any astronaut autographs but I wonder what the general consensus is among collectors (especially on high value items) and also to what extent Apollo astronauts are willing to sign items from other missions.

posted 12-16-2008 05:55 AM               

If you had a picture from Apollo 11 that was signed by those astronauts that were assigned mission support roles (such as a support, backup and/or Capcom position), that would be fine by me as I have always collected this way as a part of my main astronaut binder collection.

Usually in doing so, however, it helps a lot to have the signing astronaut inscribe his mission participation, such as; "One of the highlights of my astronaut career; CAPCOM on Apollo 11 man's first lunar landing, July 20, 1969, Charlie Duke, We copy you down Eagle..."

Another would be Jerry Carr on an Apollo 8 item as he can sign and inscribe; "Dec. 24, 1968--You are Go for LOI!" Apollo 8 CAPCOM & Support Crew."

posted 12-17-2008 01:18 AM               

And 16 other MGA astronauts show up. (You had NO idea or advance information that they were going to be there!) But you only brought Apollo 8 stuff.

ALL 16 astronauts (and the Apollo 8 crew) are sitting for autographs. What are you going to do? Ignore ALL the other 16 guys and just get A8 crew autographs?

posted 12-17-2008 06:31 AM               

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Originally posted by spaceman1953:
ALL 16 astronauts (and the Apollo 8 crew) are sitting for autographs. What are you going to do? Ignore ALL the other 16 guys and just get A8 crew autographs?

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If that's the scenario, I'm gonna hope and pray that among my Apollo 8 stuff is a decent "Earthrise" picture! Something that has wider symbolism like that (and that, heck, pretty much summarizes the whole effort to get to the moon), I could see getting signatures on that aren't directly related to a specific mission.

posted 12-21-2008 11:20 AM               

2- Buzz Aldrin's foot print - Here I have astronauts related to the Apollo 11 mission: crew and capcom. Additionally, I've asked each astronaut to write an inscription pertaining to the flight that I found in the transcripts.

3- Eagle's ascent with the earthrise - Here I wanted to have all of the living Apollo astronauts as well as well known support personnel sign the poster (still working on this). Again, I have each person write something pertaining to their own mission or something related to star trek ;-) as well as their designation and the codenames of the CM or LM.