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Topic: 'Moon Museum' art chip smuggled on Apollo 12
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capoetc
Member Posts: 2169
From: McKinney TX (USA)
Registered: Aug 2005
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posted 06-07-2010 08:35 AM
   
Interesting story in this morning's USA Today: Apollo 12 art caper: Does the moon harbor a tiny museum? One small step for man, one giant leap for modern art?Andy Warhol and five other artists likely left a 1969 calling card -- a so-called moon museum of six sketches etched in miniature on a penny-wide ceramic chip -- on the Apollo 12 lunar lander, an upcoming PBS show concludes. The miniature ceramic chip bearing art by Any Warhol, et al, if it actually was on board the Apollo 12 lunar module, begs the question: How many other small mementos were placed on board lunar modules on the moon? How many workers wrote their kids names in an inconspicuous spot on a lander?I bet there are lots of them... |
dfox
Member Posts: 208
From: Scarsdale, NY, United States
Registered: Mar 2010
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posted 06-07-2010 06:47 PM
Great story! |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42981
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 06-15-2010 01:45 PM
collectSPACE Interplanetary art smuggler sought by PBS detectives for moon mystery questioningIn November 1969, a plot was launched to smuggle potentially priceless works of art by the likes of Warhol and Rauschenberg out of the country. Despite it being carried out during one of the century's most widely watched events, the art was lifted in secret and deposited a quarter of a million miles away, where only a dozen men would ever visit... |
music_space
Member Posts: 1179
From: Canada
Registered: Jul 2001
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posted 06-18-2010 02:17 PM
I always though that the LM was a work of art in itself. For one thing, the thermal wrappings makes it look like an artpiece from Christo.I was always glad that though the booster proudly displayed the colors of the nation who endeavoured the first Moon explorations, the CM-CSM and the LM flew and landed unadorned, "for all mankind". |
thump
Member Posts: 575
From: washington dc usa
Registered: May 2004
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posted 06-18-2010 03:31 PM
The LM had an American Flag and the words United States... |
music_space
Member Posts: 1179
From: Canada
Registered: Jul 2001
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posted 06-19-2010 10:25 PM
Oops...! |
moorouge
Member Posts: 2454
From: U.K.
Registered: Jul 2009
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posted 07-07-2010 08:06 AM
This sounds very much like the story that the Apollo 11 crew left an advertisement on the Moon for a hotel in Acapulco. |
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