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Topic: Project APEQS Scott Carpenter signed dollar
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Spacepsycho
Member Posts: 858
From: Huntington Beach, Calif.
Registered: Aug 2004
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posted 12-06-2020 04:20 PM
   
I just picked up an interesting group of items from the family of a scientist who was aboard the 1963 Project APEQS (Airborne Photography of the Eclipse of the Quiet Sun), that was carried out aboard a Delta Airlines' DC-8 and was sponsored by Douglas Aircraft and the National Geographic Society.The collection consists of a 127-page softcover spiral bound book with many pullouts put out by Douglas and NatGeo. There are also two 16mm films of the solar eclipse, a Sixtus handheld light meter used during the flight, a 1963 NatGeo pamphlet of the APEQS mission and a 1965 Horizons magazine with an article by Dr. Webber about the APEQS mission. There are also two mint condition rare books, the 1956 "The Exploration of Mars" by Willy Ley and Wernher von Braun with the artwork by Chesley Bonstell and "The First Men To The Moon" by von Braun. The jewel of the collection is a 1957 $1 bill with blue seal, that is signed by everyone who was aboard the DC-8 for the APEQS mission. Besides the APEQS scientists, Scott Carpenter was on the aircraft for this mission and he signed the $1 bill on the back. Does anyone know about this mission? If you're interested in seeing these items, send me an email and I'll send you photos. Thanks for your help. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 45187
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 12-06-2020 05:02 PM
From the July 22, 1963 issue of The Boston Globe: A special camera, designed by E.P. Ney, professor of physics at the University of Minnesota, gave astronaut Scott Carpenter a chance to photograph the zodiacal light, an experiment he was unable to perform when he orbited the Earth three times on May 24, 1962. |
Spacepsycho
Member Posts: 858
From: Huntington Beach, Calif.
Registered: Aug 2004
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posted 12-06-2020 06:10 PM
Thanks Robert, you truly are the Encyclopedia of all things space related. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 45187
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 12-06-2020 06:45 PM
In this case, Google is your (and my) friend. That said, it helps to read carefully; initially I mixed up the date of the flight with the date of the dollar bill, intrigued by the idea that this was an autograph from Carpenter before he became an astronaut. My first few searches came up empty because I couldn't find a matching eclipse flight in 1957. | |
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