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Topic: Neil Armstrong question
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Keith Barber
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From: Warwickshire
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 11-27-2002 04:23 AM
   
Has Neil ever sold on the open market any of his possessions from his time at NASA, I think he donated some items to his museum but don`t know what. I have never seen anything from Shepard,Irwin or Schmitt either. |
Robert Pearlman
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From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 11-27-2002 06:23 AM
To the best of my knowledge Armstrong and Schmitt have not sold any of their personal belongings. Its possible that Janet Shearon, Armstrong's first wife may have sold a flown cover or two -- but I personally do not recall her doing so.Since Irwin's passing, his family have sold quite a few of his possessions, the most famous of which was his "presentos" -- the patches worn on the outside of his A7L suit. They sold at Christie's in 2001 for over $358,000 (a similar sale, two years earlier, sold a patch and nametag he cut from his PLSS for $310,000). |
Keith Barber
Member Posts: 326
From: Warwickshire
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 11-27-2002 06:51 AM
Is there listing available to the public to what they all kept, only out of pure interest and to ponder/dream what would look very nice in your collection. |
Robert Pearlman
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From: Houston, TX
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posted 11-27-2002 06:57 AM
The only such list -- the manifest of the Personal Preference Kit -- is not available to the public due to an order given by then-head of the Astronaut Office Deke Slayton. That said, even if it was public, the PPK manifest would not be complete. Many of the astronauts kept items that were not flown as souvenirs (example: Alan Bean has his rock hammer, which he uses to imprint his canvases for painting). |
Rick Mulheirn
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From: England
Registered: Feb 2001
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posted 11-27-2002 03:46 PM
I was fortunate enough this summer to see close up Jack Schmitts EVA suit at the Garber Facility in Washington, unhindered by perspex or the likes. It is a particular favourite of the girls at Garber because it is pristine and untouched; nothing has been removed or swopped from the suit ie. patches etc. Jack Schmitt is very conscious of the historic nature of the moon landings and his role within the program and as such wants his suit kept as it is. I would have thought it unlikely therefore, given his views, that he would ever part with items carried to the moon in his PPK. Regards, Rick. |
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posted 11-27-2002 10:15 PM
I was of the understanding that Schmitt had recently commented that he was not going sell any items he had.Now that said, Cernan kept a lot of Apollo 17 items in his collection and recently donated most if not all of it to the Kansas Cosmosphere. That included the lunar surface maps, LM manuals and cuff checklists as well as other materials from Apollo 10 and Gemini 9 (his Gemini 9 spacesuit was at KC too). I was told that Cernan even had Schmitt's cuff checklists, which he eventually gave back to Schmitt prior to the donation. So Schmitt may not have a lot of material. I had hear that Armstrong donated most of his items to a museum in Ohio. I was told by a former wife that Jan Armstrong only had memories. The question is what do Alsn Bean, David Scott and John Young have in the way of lunar artifacts and collectibles? Larry McGlynn |
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