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Topic: 121362516368: Challenger honey bee acrylic
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Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42988
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 06-20-2014 03:07 PM
   
By any chance, did a collectSPACE member end up buying this acrylic? If so, would you contact me? To commemorate the flight of the honey bee on the space shuttle Challenger, April 1983 |
NASAgoob
Member Posts: 96
From: Dallas, Texas, USA
Registered: Oct 2008
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posted 06-21-2014 10:19 AM
What an amazing find and at such a great price. Darn! |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42988
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 06-21-2014 10:28 AM
Well, it is not clear the honey bee in the acrylic was one of the flown bees, though that is certainly a possibility. There are other examples of flown insects being encased in lucite for presentation after the research they were involved in was complete. |
4allmankind
Member Posts: 1043
From: Dallas
Registered: Jan 2004
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posted 06-21-2014 10:31 AM
Flown or not, that's a very cool piece. Congrats to the bidder who landed it. |
Steve Zarelli
Member Posts: 731
From: Upstate New York, USA
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 06-21-2014 11:35 AM
To me, the use of "to commemorate" implies not flown, but rather a replica that represents an original. But maybe I am parsing the words too much.A cool find either way. Kudos! |
rgarner
Member Posts: 1193
From: Shepperton, United Kingdom
Registered: Mar 2012
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posted 06-21-2014 12:17 PM
I must be the only one who really doesn't like that acrylic... |
sts205cdr
Member Posts: 649
From: Sacramento, CA
Registered: Jun 2001
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posted 06-21-2014 01:33 PM
I think it's cool, but "Poor bee" does come to mind. |
SpaceAholic
Member Posts: 4437
From: Sierra Vista, Arizona
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 06-21-2014 03:44 PM
DNA storage container (for future resurrection of an extinct species). |
MCroft04
Member Posts: 1634
From: Smithfield, Me, USA
Registered: Mar 2005
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posted 06-21-2014 08:51 PM
Well, it is a flown honey bee. Just not sure if it flew in outer space  . Nor can the bee deny that he/she didn't fly in space. |
Spacepsycho
Member Posts: 818
From: Huntington Beach, Calif.
Registered: Aug 2004
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posted 07-18-2014 01:27 PM
I wonder why anyone would go to the effort and expense of creating this lucite display if the bee wasn't flown. In my opinion, there's little question that the bee was in fact flown as part of the experiment package.I have a few lucites created by scientists or engineers who created displays with flown material from experiment packages for members of their team. The edition of 100 would be in line for lucite companies that typically give a price break. Unfortunately whoever created this lucite probably included the provenance paperwork in the box. They didn't think that once the two were separated, it would call into question the authenticity and historical provenance. I think it's a cool piece by incorporating the mission patch shape, limited edition of 100 and a flown bee. It certainly was a bargain price even if the provenance is questionable. |
p51
Member Posts: 1642
From: Olympia, WA
Registered: Sep 2011
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posted 07-18-2014 06:03 PM
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Originally posted by rgarner:
I must be the only one who really doesn't like that acrylic...
No, you're not. I simply don't 'get' it, either... |
Cozmosis22
Member Posts: 968
From: Texas * Earth
Registered: Apr 2011
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posted 07-19-2014 11:48 AM
Interesting piece but likely bogus. That "live honeycomb experiment" flew on Challenger's mission 41-C in April of 1984. |
mach3valkyrie
Member Posts: 719
From: Albany, Oregon
Registered: Jul 2006
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posted 07-19-2014 06:41 PM
What was the original purpose of the experiment? Did it only fly aboard the one mission? |
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