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Topic: FS: Mercury space food, ASTP crew medal, more
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Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42987
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 12-16-2014 11:35 AM
   
A few items for sale. Contact me with questions or to purchase. - Strawberry Cereal Cube embedded in a 2 by 2 by 1.25-inch lucite cube inscribed with "Space Food, Mercury - Gemini - Apollo." These, I am told, were produced for members of the NASA food lab. Minor damage to the lucite. Example sold for $350 in 2012;
asking $325 SOLD. - Apollo-Soyuz Test Project two-piece crew medal. Obtained as flown but without documentation. NASA photo of Alexei Leonov practicing with one here. (Tom Stafford said that the medals that split were crew-issue only; there were solid medals with the same design distributed as mementos.)
Asking $400 SOLD. - World Space Congress square medal (paperweight) minted with "material flown aboard space shuttle Discovery, STS-42; Soyuz TM-11; and a stony meteorite recovered near Forrest, Australia." Issued by NASA, NPO Energia and the Space Studies Institute in 1992. Asking $150.
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rgarner
Member Posts: 1193
From: Shepperton, United Kingdom
Registered: Mar 2012
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posted 12-16-2014 11:40 AM
Robert, any idea if the piece of food was flown? Or for that matter if any food encased in acrylic were flown? |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42987
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 12-16-2014 11:42 AM
The strawberry cubes embedded for these presentations were not flown. I have heard of at least one example of flown space food being encased in acrylic, but it was one-of-a-kind piece still within the collection of the original recipient. |
MrSpace86
Member Posts: 1618
From: Gardner, KS, USA
Registered: Feb 2003
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posted 12-16-2014 01:06 PM
I know this is none of my business, but you have been reducing your space collection these last few months. Moving on to other collections? |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42987
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 12-16-2014 01:47 PM
Not so much reducing, but refocusing. For years, I have been passing along the advice that I originally received from Ken Havekotte that the three most important things to keep in mind when collecting is to focus, focus and focus. Now I am following his (and my) own advice. A year or so ago, maybe a bit longer, I pinpointed what really got me excited about collecting and decided to hone in on that topic. Still, I held back for a time from selling anything that didn't fit into that category. Ultimately, it became a matter of space — physical space — as the collection has been growing but only in specific regard to its newly-defined focus. At the same time, I've been working on a rather large project for collectSPACE, which I'm not yet ready to make public but which the sales have helped to support. So, by focusing, I'm both expanding my collection and growing collectSPACE. |
mode1charlie
Member Posts: 1169
From: Honolulu, HI
Registered: Sep 2010
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posted 12-16-2014 03:35 PM
Darn! Sorry I missed out on the strawberry cube. (Space food being one of my collecting foci.) |
Joel Katzowitz
Member Posts: 808
From: Marietta GA USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 12-16-2014 03:56 PM
I'm sorry I missed out on the cereal cube as well. Just goes to show I should NEVER walk away from my computer. |
Tykeanaut
Member Posts: 2212
From: Worcestershire, England, UK.
Registered: Apr 2008
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posted 12-17-2014 09:45 AM
Hi Robert, Hope you don't mind me asking but are you willing to divulge what your new focus within spaceflight collecting is? |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42987
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 12-17-2014 12:07 PM
Sure — the space shuttle era, from the approach and landing tests through the end of the program. I grew up with the space shuttle, it was the program that got me excited about spaceflight in the same way that others look back at Apollo, and it was the vehicle I dreamed of flying to space. My collection was already somewhat shuttle centric, so it seemed natural to build upon that. I've identified five subject areas related to the space shuttle program that interest me (launch components, orbiter materials, crew systems, crew equipment and the impact the shuttle had on popular culture) to further focus my collecting. I've identified a core set of pre-shuttle artifacts that I am keeping but I don't have any particular plans to add to them. | |
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