Missing: Apollo-Soyuz Stafford challenge coin

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Topic: Missing: Apollo-Soyuz Stafford challenge coin

Robert Pearlman
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Posts: 54921
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999

posted 07-17-2025 11:06 AM

From Burke Hare, a fellow inductee in the U.S. Space Camp Hall of Fame:

Missing — my coin General Stafford gave me after I helped him design and order it. #129/300. Last seen at the Davidson Center (under the Saturn V) at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center this past Friday 11 July. Still looking for it and its plastic case.
Please understand I have been diligently and methodically looking for it. If it happens to be with someone — I just want it back — no questions asked — please be on the lookout. It has not been loaned or given away.

If you see coin, no. 129, show up on eBay or elsewhere for sale, please post here or contact me so I can put you in touch with Burke.

Larry McGlynn
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Posts: 1459
From: Boston, MA
Registered: Jul 2003

posted 07-17-2025 08:51 PM

That is truly a special medallion. Tom gave me #124, so Burke and I are close in the order that Tom gave them to friends.

The "Stafford Museum Artifact Recovery Team," or "SMART," will be on the look out in the various sales outlets. We have recovered more than five objects that were "liberated" over the years.

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