This is a charity fundraising event to support one of the last public space museums in the state of Florida.
Please help a good cause and get some great space items at the same time. Lots of items have been donated by astronauts with more on the way. Fred Haise's items are still in shipping.
This is our first ever auction so please let me know if there are any mistakes or if you have any comments. We love the cS community at the Space Walk of Fame.
Chuckster01 Member
Posts: 873 From: Orlando, FL Registered: Jan 2014
posted 03-06-2016 05:01 PM
The auction is complete up and running, from Charlie Duke's lunar surface netting to Fred Haise's flown Lunar Bible. This is a nice assortments of collectibles to help a great cause. So start the bidding!
Chuckster01 Member
Posts: 873 From: Orlando, FL Registered: Jan 2014
posted 03-15-2016 06:24 PM
Fred Haise has done a nice promotional video for the auction:
Chuckster01 Member
Posts: 873 From: Orlando, FL Registered: Jan 2014
posted 03-20-2016 04:22 PM
Two weeks till the auction. we have added several new item to the auction please check it out.
Chuckster01 Member
Posts: 873 From: Orlando, FL Registered: Jan 2014
posted 03-26-2016 09:22 AM
One week left till the auction and opening prices of many items have been lowered including several astronaut owned items please take a look.
One such lot, a large piece of netting removed from the lunar lander Orion after 72 hours on the surface of the moon by LMP Charlie Duke and is from his personal collection. This was donated by Charlie Duke to the U.S. Space Walk of Fame for our charity fundraiser auction. It is lot 101 and has an opening bid of only $200.
Please view all our items at spacewalkoffame.com.
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 42988 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
A fragment from a recovered rocket, a segment of netting used on the surface of the moon and a chunk of landing gear tire from a space shuttle are among the more than 200 historic NASA artifacts being auctioned this week to benefit a Florida museum devoted to honoring and preserving space history.
The U.S. Space Walk of Fame Museum, located near the Kennedy Space Center in Titusville, Florida, has organized the charity auction to support its educational programs and exhibits. The money raised from the Saturday (April 2) sale will go toward refreshing the museum's main gallery, which showcases more than 50 years of spaceflight through the memorabilia of the workers who made it happen.
Chuckster01 Member
Posts: 873 From: Orlando, FL Registered: Jan 2014
posted 03-31-2016 02:00 PM
T-Minus 22 hours and counting.
danh Member
Posts: 12 From: Carmel, IN Registered: Apr 2016
posted 04-01-2016 11:00 AM
Curious about lot 164. Any insight regarding what this is from (other than bulk head)?
Thanks!
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 42988 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 04-01-2016 11:22 AM
Lot 164 is an example of Inconel-covered cerachrome insulation that was bolted to a flange on the reinforced carbon-carbon (RCC) components of the orbiter's leading edge and attached to an aluminum wing spar.
It protected the metallic fittings and spar from the heat radiated during re-entry from the inside surface of the RCC wing panels.
Ken Havekotte Member
Posts: 2915 From: Merritt Island, Florida, Brevard Registered: Mar 2001
posted 04-01-2016 12:29 PM
Well said Robert as I couldn't have said or added anything further myself about Lot 164.
The high-temperature insulator was removed from Endeavour in Sept. 1998 after mission STS-89 had been in space for almost 9 days, 139 Earth orbits, and logging 3.6 million statute miles.
STS-89 was the eighth Shuttle-Mir docking mission from Jan. 22-31, 1998, which was the 89th shuttle flight, and the 12th vehicle- use of Orbiter-105 Endeavour.
rgarner Member
Posts: 1193 From: Shepperton, United Kingdom Registered: Mar 2012
posted 04-02-2016 11:35 AM
Not sure if anyone else has seen this, but there is a bid limit on the auction:
Remaining bid limit: 13,380 USD
I don't know why an auction would have a bid limit, especially with several items which could easily reach this figure?
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 42988 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 04-02-2016 11:44 AM
That is your personal bid limit.
What is a bid limit? How do I increase it?
Some auction houses set a limit on the amount a bidder can bid for the duration of a sale. You may request to increase this limit prior to the auction. Please follow the steps below to contact the auction house:
Sign into your Invaluable account using your email address and password
Click on the My Invaluable link in the upper right.
Click Approved Auctions in the Dashboard.
Click Request Limit Increase to the right of the sale
Write your message to the auction house and click Send.
rgarner Member
Posts: 1193 From: Shepperton, United Kingdom Registered: Mar 2012
posted 04-02-2016 11:54 AM
That isn't something I was aware of and you can bet the same applies for others. For the Space Walk's sake I hope that doesn't effect their higher end items.
spaced out Member
Posts: 3110 From: Paris, France Registered: Aug 2003
posted 04-02-2016 12:30 PM
One thing I would note (and I realize this is their first auction) is that the auction is proceeding at a snail's pace. Only 204 lots but at the current rate it's going to last around 6 hours.
rgarner Member
Posts: 1193 From: Shepperton, United Kingdom Registered: Mar 2012
posted 04-02-2016 12:41 PM
That has been noted by myself and another friend of mine thus far.
Chuckster01 Member
Posts: 873 From: Orlando, FL Registered: Jan 2014
posted 04-03-2016 10:01 AM
I want to say thank you to everyone who attended the auction. A few things:
I had no idea there was a bid limit until 15 minutes before the auction began. This will never happen again.
The snail's pace of the auction was due mostly to trying to show the items to the people live in the building. I am not sure how to speed this process up but at the second half we started having two people showing items to keep it rolling. I will try and fix this for next time (we sold many items to the people attending the auction).
This was a huge success for the museum and our best fundraiser of the year, but it is also a learning curve and we all appreciate your patience with our auction.
THANK YOU again, this would never have gone as well as it did without the entire collectSPACE community.
spaced out Member
Posts: 3110 From: Paris, France Registered: Aug 2003
posted 04-04-2016 03:50 AM
The pacing thing was just an observation and not too surprising for a first auction.
My impression was that the auction overall was very successful with some strong prices realized and very few unsold lots.
posted 03-01-2016 07:35 PM
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