posted 07-15-2020 06:47 PM               

• $195: Apollo 8 medallion. Contains metal flown on Apollo 8. On a vintage NASA "Manned Flight Awareness" certificate, signed in print by Frank Borman. An identical medallion and certificate has sold at auction for $305, but that was probably unusually high.

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• $150: Jack Lousma's 1969 space navigation training manuals. Lousma became an astronaut in 1966 and trained for the Apollo program. It is likely he would have been the LMP on a later mission if they hadn't been canceled. He consigned these four rare manuals to an auction a few years ago. I will be able to give a link to the auction listing, but at this time I cannot find the COA from him, darn it, or the price for all four would be higher. Still, an amazing and rare set of detailed instructions for an astronaut to be able to chart his course in space.

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• $195: Apollo 11 medallion. Contains metal flown on Columbia AND metal flown on Eagle. With an accompanying vintage NASA "Manned Flight Awareness" certificate. The same medallion, with the same certificate, sold for $530 at auction (!).

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• SOLD $95: Apollo 12 beta cloth patch. MUCH larger than usual; about 11"x11" (Photo)

posted 07-15-2020 06:53 PM               

(I probably should have photographed these with a ruler next to them. The Cunningham ones are about 2" long.)

• $30: Cunningham [TOP one SOLD; other still available]
  
• $95: Apollo 10 full crew
  
• $150: [SOLD] Apollo 11 full crew
  
• $75[SOLD], $95, $95[SOLD]: Apollo 12 full crew, from top to bottom

SOLD Apollo 14 lunar surface flown film. Film roll 64 was used to take this famous photo of Ed Mitchell during an EVA, so you could print a copy of that and display them together.

posted 07-15-2020 06:55 PM               

• Apollo 15 ALSEP data, recorded live at Mission Control from the moon. With a photo of a written description of the channels of data. Identical strip without a description sold for $306.

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• $95: Apollo 17 crew ISP, signed by Cernan and Evans.

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• $95: Skylab beta cloth patches (all three crews). Standard 8"x8" but each with a very faint circle of discoloration from a previous display. Price is for all three. (Photo)

• Astronaut John Fabian flown NASA "meatball" patch from T-38 flight suit. With handwritten COA and a photo of him in the cockpit wearing the patch.

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• SOLD $250: Straps probably worn by cosmonaut during Mir EVA. Here is the auction lot description from back in 2012. I am keeping the cool rear-view mirror; this price is for both of the straps pictured. Here is a photo of the first European EVA, on Mir, with similar straps on the arm.

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• SOLD $95: Kennedy Space Center Security Police badge and patch

posted 07-15-2020 08:19 PM               

The Braslet-M (Браслет-M) system was developed by Dr. Alexadre Yarov at the Institute of Biophysics of the USSR Ministry of Health in Moscow and is manufactured by LLC Kentaur-Science (КЕНТАВР-НАУКА). It consists of two adjustable compression cuffs worn on the upper thighs. The cuffs are tightened to a setting that retains blood in the lower extremities, which mimics the natural pooling of blood in the legs that occurs on Earth. This helps redistribute the circulating blood volume while on orbit, alleviating symptoms of space hypervolemia (most notably facial swelling, headaches, painful eye movements, congestion, and vestibular disturbances) during the first 1-3 days in microgravity. The cuffs offer other physiological benefits, including protection against orthostatic intolerance, the most serious symptom of cardiovascular deconditioning experienced under conditions of weightlessness.