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Topic: Rarity of Saturn V 500-F rollout ceremony badges
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kosmo Member Posts: 388 From: Registered: Sep 2001
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posted 10-29-2015 01:07 PM
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 Member Posts: 873 From: Orlando, FL Registered: Jan 2014
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posted 10-29-2015 03:43 PM
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 Member Posts: 2914 From: Merritt Island, Florida, Brevard Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 10-29-2015 05:54 PM
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 Member Posts: 388 From: Registered: Sep 2001
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posted 01-25-2016 04:33 PM
A couple of photos of the Rollout Ceremony, Apollo-Saturn V 500-F badges:
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