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Robert Pearlman
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posted 06-17-2025 01:36 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Sotheby's next Space Exploration sale is scheduled for July 2, 2025 in New York:
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.

Robert Pearlman
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posted 07-02-2025 12:22 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The sale is now scheduled to begin at 12:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday (July 3).

Robert Pearlman
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posted 07-03-2025 12:04 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The 109 lot auction catalog is now online and open for bids through 10 a.m. EDT (1400 GMT) on July 15, 2025.

SpaceAholic
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posted 07-03-2025 02:52 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for SpaceAholic   Click Here to Email SpaceAholic     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The Soyuz panel (indicated on the lot description as Soyuz TM) has a Soyuz-T Globus INK installed. Soyuz TM flew with a different variant thus likely components combined together (T + TM) to complete this assembly.

Andy Anderson
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posted 07-04-2025 03:22 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Andy Anderson   Click Here to Email Andy Anderson     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Does anybody know what is the story behind Lot. No. 99 - Apollo 18 TLI Procedures Check List? It appears to have pages from Apollo 8 checklists and I saw it somewhere online with a poor recreation of an Apollo FCOH back in 2016.

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:

SpaceAholic
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posted 07-04-2025 07:45 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for SpaceAholic   Click Here to Email SpaceAholic     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
If I recall correctly it was a prop intended for the mini-series (Earth to the Moon).

Andy Anderson
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posted 07-04-2025 08:18 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Andy Anderson   Click Here to Email Andy Anderson     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I should have remembered this. The item when it came up for sale on eBay, was discussed on cS in 2016: Opinions & Advice — 381874659646: Apollo 18 (?!) Handbook.

Although not a NASA publication, given that a model of the original Star Trek Enterprise-D sold for $576,000 back in 2006, it isn't surprising that unique movie props can result in competitive bidding.

stsmithva
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posted 07-05-2025 07:19 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for stsmithva   Click Here to Email stsmithva     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I found one lot to be particularly interesting: the Gemini Program On-Board Computer Training Attendance Sheet Signed by 24 Astronauts.

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.

I sold it more than ten years ago towards a down payment on our house; otherwise I definitely would have held onto it. I wish the consignor good luck. I might try to get it back!

SpaceAholic
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posted 07-10-2025 09:17 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for SpaceAholic   Click Here to Email SpaceAholic     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Lot 52 (Apollo 11 flown flag) is slightly exceeding its pre-auction estimate.

randyc
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posted 07-10-2025 11:04 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for randyc   Click Here to Email randyc     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
According to the COA the flag was flown "...to the Moon aboard the Command Module Columbia" in Aldrin's PPK and was not in Eagle, so it is not a lunar surface flown flag.

SpaceAholic
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posted 07-11-2025 06:27 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for SpaceAholic   Click Here to Email SpaceAholic     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Correct. Fixed - thanks.

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