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kosmo
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posted 10-29-2015 01:07 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for kosmo     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Just wondering if any cS members have any idea how uncommon the laminated orange Rollout Ceremony, Apollo-Saturn V 500-F, Facility Vehicle badges are. You see quite a few of the Apollo 16 and 17 Rollout Ceremony badges, but not the above mentioned.

Chuckster01
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posted 10-29-2015 03:43 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Chuckster01   Click Here to Email Chuckster01     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
This is funny. I saw my first one last week at the appraisal event at the Space Walk of Fame Museum. It came from the collection of Norm Carlson. It is an unusual item for sure.

As for value, I have never seen one sell so your guess is as good as mine.

Ken Havekotte
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posted 10-29-2015 05:54 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Ken Havekotte   Click Here to Email Ken Havekotte     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Rollout badges of any capacity for AS-500F, the first Apollo/Saturn V rollout in May 1966, are indeed not to common to come across these days.

I've only seen, from my own collections, orange-colored AS-500F rollout ceremony badges for the press and VIPs. While the badges were laminated, neither has a number on them in their "Serial No. _____" area designation on the reverse of the badges.

What I never did see before though, also from the Norm Carlson family, was a larger badge for the 500F rollout with "Emergency" text on it!

Another mystery of sorts about the 500F rollout at NASA's Kennedy Space Center was the lack of hardly any space philatelic envelope covers prepared for it, not even by the well-known and on-base established KSC Philatelic Society.

The first actual rollout of a "real" all-up Apollo/Saturn V launch vehicle occurred 13 months later when AS-501, or better known as Apollo 4, was transported to Pad 39A in preparation for the first unmanned Saturn V moon rocket flight test in Nov. 1967.

kosmo
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posted 01-25-2016 04:33 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for kosmo     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
A couple of photos of the Rollout Ceremony, Apollo-Saturn V 500-F badges:

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