posted 09-22-2015 05:29 AM               

Just a quick note to let everyone know that the 18th Lunar Legacies Space Memorabilia Auction is scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 14, 2015 and the auction lots (for preview purposes only) are now beginning to appear on the Lunar Legacies website.

If anyone would like to consign to this auction, please email here. The deadline for consignments will be the middle of October at the latest.

posted 11-02-2015 10:55 PM               

There are some descriptions left for me to write and all should be completed by Tuesday (Nov. 3), but the bidding numbers are correct and you may pre-bid now if you so choose once you are registered.

I do accept mail-in bids so if you cannot be there live for the auction, please email with your list, and I will be glad to bid for you. Please also understand that all mail bids must be confirmed received by me.

Highlights in this auction include:

• Large group of Lunar Roving Vehicle manuals and working papers.
  
• Apollo 15 MCC working papers from flight controller.
  
• Apollo 13 Lunar Module Lunar Surface Checklist
  
• Apollo 11 Apollo Operations Handbook, Volumes 1 & 2
  
• Edgar Mitchell items including flown to the moon and lunar surface items
  
• Walter Cunningham items including flight gear.
  
• Jack Lousma items including Skylab and STS-3 training manuals.
  
• Items from Paul Weitz and Yury Usachev.
  
• Jerry Ross' Mach 25 patch.
  
• An ALT flight crew flight suit with rare ALT patch.
  
• STS-135 flown US flag and patch
  
• Several STS-107 Columbia crew-signed items

posted 11-13-2015 07:56 PM            

The auction format doesn't allow many photos, and photos are about the only way to describe a mission "workbook" for Apollo 15, so I have loaded over 100 photos of this 500-page book in an album, here

posted 11-13-2015 08:01 PM            

Set of five Lunar Orbiter photo/maps indicating the final five chosen potential landing sites for Mission I Apollo Zone of Interest (Apollo 11).

From the collection of an Apollo-era flight controller and geological engineer who worked on surface operations planning and the development of the LRV (see other lots for more material that belonged to this engineer).

1. These Lunar Orbiter photo/"maps" (labeled Sites 1 through 5) indicate the final five chosen potential landing sites for Mission I Apollo Zone of Interest (Apollo 11). They were simply labeled as Site 1, Site 2, Site 3 and so on. These site label numbers progress from east to west across the face of the moon in terms of the E-W location of these five potential landing sites. Please see the jpeg image depicting the final Mission I Apollo Zone of Interest map.

2. I also note that the angles for the approach and landing ellipses are not consistent with the July launch of Apollo 11. Instead, they seem be consistent with a launch date a bit later in the year.

So what we have here is a photo which is mislabeled in terms of the Lunar Orbiter mission photo source. This makes this item fairly unique since it was rare for either NASA or the US Army Corps of Engineers to make such an obvious mistake.

The second piece, labeled as Site 2, is a LO mosaic for landing site II P-6. This is Apollo 11's landing site. This photo is correctly labeled along the left edges of the photo as site II P-6 and photo number 77 from LO2. See here.

The third piece, labeled Site 3, is a LO mosaic for Mission I Apollo Zone of Interest landing site "II P-8." The left side of this photo correctly indicates that it is photo number 113 taken by LO2. See here.

The fourth piece, labeled Site 4, is a LO mosaic for Mission I Apollo Zone of Interest landing site "II P-11." This photograph is correctly labeled that this photo number 177 from LO3. See here.

The fifth piece, labeled Site 5, is a LO mosaic for Mission I Apollo Zone of Interest landing site "II P-13." This photograph is correctly labeled that this photo number 200 from LO2. See here.

And here's the link to auction lot.

posted 11-23-2015 08:29 AM               

I love the map book — are unflown copies easy to come by?

On a second question: I managed to acquire Lot 351 which is the engineering notes and memos for the Apollo 16 UV Camera, I have the engineer down as Cooper — can you please provide any further info on him and what his role was.