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Topic: Artifact Cloud Apollo bungee strap rings
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prastila
Member Posts: 27
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Registered: Jul 2019
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posted 08-01-2019 10:23 AM
  
Has anyone bought one of these Apollo bungee strap rings? I am tempted to buy one. Grateful if I can have any information you may have.I presume these rings are from an artefact like this one. I have read that these bungee cords were used to secure things in the spacecraft. However, to me, they appear really flimsy for this purpose. Maybe in weightlessness, they were more effective? I also read somewhere, that these were common in both the command module and lunar module. I suppose it is impossible to tell if these rings belonged to something from the lunar module. I saw something similar from Skylab. I wonder if the space shuttle also had these bungee cords? Grateful for more information. Thank you. |
fredtrav
Member Posts: 1673
From: Birmingham AL
Registered: Aug 2010
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posted 08-01-2019 01:37 PM
I don't know much about this item, but I can tell you that the seller, Florian, is very reputable. If he says it was flown, it was flown. |
prastila
Member Posts: 27
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Registered: Jul 2019
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posted 08-01-2019 04:11 PM
Sorry, I did not mean to imply that I distrust Florian. Rather does anyone know more about this artefact. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42988
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 08-01-2019 04:29 PM
This photo from Apollo 13 shows such a bungee in use: |
prastila
Member Posts: 27
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Registered: Jul 2019
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posted 08-01-2019 11:34 PM
Thank you very much. Seeing it like that shows it's not as weak as I imagined! |
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