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Topic: Apollo 8 Manned Flight Awareness medallion
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mensax
Member Posts: 861
From: Virginia
Registered: Apr 2002
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posted April 17, 2005 08:44 AM
   
According to Russ Still's book "Relics of the Space Race," Frank Borman carried a half inch diameter sphere of an aluminum alloy in his PPK during the flight of Apollo 8. After the mission, for fear of loss, the sphere was cut in half. One of the halves was sent to be added to a much larger molten batch of aluminum, which resulted in 200,000 medallions being produced. Whew! Not a lot of flown molecules in this medallion either.So, here's my questions. Any answers or suggestions to where to try to get answers will be greatly appreciated... - Are there any photos of this tiny sphere? Either of it alone, or being shown, or cut, or thrown into the cauldron?
- AWhat happened to the other half of the sphere? I have heard rumor that it was broken up and that the pieces were given to prominent individuals... any truth to that? Has anyone ever seen or heard of one of these for sale?
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kosmo
Member Posts: 134
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Registered: Sep 2001
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posted June 28, 2007 09:13 AM
I'm interested in the Apollo 8 Manned Flight Awareness medallion presentations. Does anyone know how many different ones there are? I know of two. Editor's note: Threads merged. |
JTarpley
New Member Posts: 7
From: Dickinson, Texas, U.S.
Registered: Aug 2011
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posted August 21, 2011 02:41 PM
Apollo 8 letter and medallion from my mother's collection.  
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