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Topic: RR Auction November 2012 Space Auction
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Jurvetson
Member Posts: 93
From: Los Altos an SF, CA, United States
Registered: Sep 2011
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posted 12-01-2012 09:44 PM
   
Very interesting, thanks! And it sounds like they were all from the CSM, not the LM. |
Jurvetson
Member Posts: 93
From: Los Altos an SF, CA, United States
Registered: Sep 2011
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posted 12-02-2012 01:57 PM
I asked some other collectors, and so far, nobody can recall Eagle hardware besides this data clip. So I'm getting more curious...For example, Bill wrote me: I can't recall seeing any other Eagle flown hardware up for auction. Paper products only. Aldrin did sell a flown slide rule at Heritage in 2007 but it looks like it was only flown in the CM. Even so, this sold for 77K. |
Ken Havekotte
Member Posts: 2915
From: Merritt Island, Florida, Brevard
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 12-02-2012 02:11 PM
Not too much of hardly anything, that I can recall, from LM-5/Eagle, however, there are a few artifacts in private collections that came from LM-6/Intrepid. Has anyone thought of putting together a list of those retrieved or brought-back parts/equipment/etc. of Apollo lunar module "on the moon" missions? |
space1
Member Posts: 853
From: Danville, Ohio
Registered: Dec 2002
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posted 12-02-2012 02:19 PM
I believe I recall the Apollo 11 LM water gun being auctioned some years ago, from Aldrin's collection. I wonder how many other LM items he might have stashed away. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42988
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 12-02-2012 02:23 PM
I suggest continuing and expanding upon this discussion in the thread: Apollo 11 artifacts in private collections |
spaced out
Member Posts: 3110
From: Paris, France
Registered: Aug 2003
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posted 12-02-2012 02:37 PM
Apollo 11 LM-flown items are pretty rare since Armstrong likely gave all his items to the Smithsonian.The LM-flown pieces of equipment I can come up with are: - Aldrin's LM-flown PPK sold at Superior in Feb 1995
- Aldrin's likely LM-flown sunglasses sold at Superior in 1995
- Aldrin's LM flown scissors sold at Heritage in Fall 2007
- Aldrin's LM flown spoon Superior 1994/98
- Aldrin's possibly LM-flown toothbrush Swann 2004
UPDATE: Note that I'm excluding flown documents, and also items carried as souvenirs here. |
Jurvetson
Member Posts: 93
From: Los Altos an SF, CA, United States
Registered: Sep 2011
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posted 12-26-2012 01:40 AM
I will continue the thread on that Apollo 11 page. Thanks. But from here (and there), I have not yet heard of any other item of Apollo 11's Eagle that has been brought back. I have a particular fascination with Lunar Module hardware, especially if flown to the moon. Documents, personal tools and food, PPK items and souvenirs are not part of the spacecraft... So I still wonder, what else from Eagle's ascent stage still exists today? |
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