posted 07-24-2003 03:25 PM               

The state of Alabama is offering a space themed license plate to motorists. According to the web page, "Proceeds from the sale of the Space Tag goes to K-12 classrooms across the state to be used in promoting math and science education using a technique known as thematic learning. Using this technique, many teachers incorporate aviation and/or space activities into their lesson plans as a tool for demonstrating principles, formulas, and topics."

posted 12-16-2004 04:33 PM               

Officials at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center trying to save the Saturn V rocket are on a mission: They need about 700 people to put down $50 each and sign up for the special Saturn V license plate before Jan. 31.

The state requires that 1,000 people preorder the special tags before it will begin production. If 1,000 aren't ordered by the deadline, then...

"It's just not an option for us," Space Center spokesman Al Whitaker said. "I mean, Huntsville and Madison County put men on the moon. How embarrassing if we can't put a tag on a car."

posted 01-13-2005 11:43 AM               

For each tag, $41.25 will go to the Space Center Foundation's Save the Saturn campaign to help pay the $5 million initial cost of restoring and showcasing one of the world's only remaining, complete Saturn V rockets.

posted 02-01-2005 12:15 PM               

Alabama soon will launch a new license plate.

As of Monday afternoon, more than 1,450 applications for the Saturn V "First to the Moon" tag had been turned in, said Ralph Petroff, head of the tag effort for the U.S. Space & Rocket Center Foundation's Saturn V Restoration executive committee.

That's at least 450 more than needed by Monday's deadline to get the state to begin producing the fund-raising license plate honoring the Saturn V - the rocket designed and developed in Huntsville that carried the astronauts on every moon mission.

posted 08-19-2005 10:54 AM               

There's one thing you can say today about those much-discussed, much-delayed, colorful, fundraising Saturn V license plates that you could never say before:

They're here.

Whether you've already ordered one or not, you can go to any county license office and get a rocket plate on your car today. You'll be helping efforts to refurbish and display the historic Saturn V rocket that's been weathering away for decades at the back of the U.S. Space & Rocket Center, and Ralph Petroff believes you'll be helping refurbish Alabama's image, too.

posted 02-06-2008 06:59 AM               

In January of 2009, production of the next Texas license plate will begin. The public currently has the opportunity to vote for one of four new designs or to keep the current plate.

The current standard design, introduced in 2000, includes the space shuttle in the upper left corner. In 2005, the design was amended to include a tribute to the loss of STS-107/Columbia by the addition of seven stars above the shuttle (similar to the custom Columbia plate pictured earlier in this thread).

Out of the five designs, only the current plate, titled "My Texas", includes reference to the space program. It is the only such plate in U.S. history to include a spacecraft or reference to NASA as part of the state's standard design.

posted 02-11-2008 10:13 PM               

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Originally posted by Robert Pearlman:
Voting began at noon on Monday, Feb. 4 and ends at noon on Monday, Feb. 11.

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posted 02-16-2008 01:56 PM               

It is available as a real registration plate for Virginians, or as a souvenir plate for any one else. The cost for a single souvenir plate is $10, and it can be personalized for an additional $10.

I've had 'APOLLO' since 1999.

posted 07-28-2012 09:11 PM               

Also, do any of you have a vanity plate with space significance?