posted 06-17-2025 01:36 PM               

This year’s Space Exploration sale coincides with the 50th anniversary of the final crewed flight of an Apollo spacecraft and the sale includes an incredible collection of Space Flown and Lunar Surface Flown artifacts from each of the Apollo missions, original artwork by space art pioneer Chesley Bonestell, rare large format space photographs, hardware and prototypes.

posted 07-04-2025 03:22 AM               

As far as I can tell the SKB checklist number appears to be out of sequence with the Apollo 17 sequence being up to SKB32100123-***.

I thought it might be a movie prop for the film Apollo 18 but that was released in 2011 later than the date it was withdrawn from Intrepid's library.

This image shows Bill Anders' Apollo 8 LMP checklist at the National Air and Space Museum and the checklist dates correspond:

And this one of the other Apollo 18 manual and just from the size of the binding rings you can see how non NASA it is:

posted 07-05-2025 07:19 PM               

Besides the fact that it is an amazing collection of signatures, it was the very first "prime" item I ever got for my space collection, back in 2007. Here is a collectSPACE post I wrote about it the next year, after bringing it to an Astronaut Scholarship Foundation event and talking with some of the signers about it.