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Topic: FS: Flown Mercury and Apollo items
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stsmithva
Member Posts: 1933
From: Fairfax, VA, USA
Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 08-23-2015 07:03 AM
   
Please let me know if you are interested in any of the following items, flown on Mercury and Apollo missions. I accept PayPal.SOLD Heat shield sample on a wooden base from Aurora 7 (Scott Carpenter's Mercury flight). Identical to this one that sold for $1490 at auction, and to this one that also sold for $1490 at auction. (That's consistency!) SOLD   Apollo 8 flown Kapton tape/foil. About 11 pieces were peeled off the CM after the mission and given by a NASA employee to a former colleague at MIT. He put the pieces into a rectangle 2 inches long by 1 inch wide in this homemade display. The pieces are attached to the paper, but you could take the paper out of the frame and make a different display if you like. Apollo 8 Kapton is not common. RR Auction hasn't sold any in their space auctions for four years. Back then, one piece about 1/3 the amount as in this display (but admittedly in a more standard acrylic display), sold for $909. $700. (Shipping is $6 for Priority Mail with tracking. If you'd like insurance, that would be extra.)  |
stsmithva
Member Posts: 1933
From: Fairfax, VA, USA
Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 08-23-2015 07:03 AM
Apollo 13 flown Kapton tape/foil. I got this one several years ago directly from the longtime NASA employee who received it soon after the mission. This acrylic display was made over 40 years ago by NASA for NASA. I like that the piece within (about one inch square) has folded up, so you can see the original silver color (think of what the CM looked like in lunar orbit) and the gold color it turned during the heat of reentry.Apollo 13 is another mission from which not a lot of flown Kapton was recovered. A one-inch-square piece sold for $2000 at auction a couple of years ago.  (Showing the side and the green felt on the bottom):  |
stsmithva
Member Posts: 1933
From: Fairfax, VA, USA
Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 08-24-2015 06:34 PM
Please let me know if you would like to make an offer on any of these items. |
stsmithva
Member Posts: 1933
From: Fairfax, VA, USA
Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 01-31-2016 06:07 AM
I believe my asking price for the Apollo 13 flown piece (which, again, was made and given out directly by NASA soon after the mission) was too high. I'm offering it now for $650. | |
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