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Topic: Astronaut Scholarship Foundation's Autograph & Memorabilia Show 2011
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MikeSpace
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posted 10-30-2011 10:28 PM
 
Good luck Colin!Does anyone know if Spacecraft Films will be attending as a vendor? |
GACspaceguy
Member Posts: 2476
From: Guyton, GA
Registered: Jan 2006
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posted 11-01-2011 01:32 PM
 
Well we are ready for this weekend's event. We will be arriving Thursday night to get rested for our Friday tour of the VAB on the new KSC Up-Close tour. We will be bringing a special item to be signed this year, our 1/12 scale lunar module. The plan is to get Aldrin to sign below the window on the LMP side and Cernan to sign below the window on the Commander's side. It will be a first and last sort of thing. We have made a transportation cart that we plan on bringing it to the event so you can't miss us there. Take a look at the pics below, the first pic is the LM exposed and the second picture is of the cart with it's protective skirt attached (stops people from bumping into the small parts on the LM). The cart will be 2 feet x2.5 feet by 2 feet tall. It comes apart so that the back "document holder comes off and the lower "tucks" come off. In this way the base is left as a pallet for transportation in the back of our Tahoe from Savannah to KSC.
We will bring a number of other items as well on the cart, specifically the poster in the picture attached, from the documentary "The Wonder of it All". We hope to see a lot of cS folks there.  
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xlsteve
Member Posts: 391
From: Holbrook MA, USA
Registered: Jul 2008
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posted 11-02-2011 12:09 PM
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Originally posted by GACspaceguy:
...the second picture is of the cart with it's protective skirt attached (stops people from bumping into the small parts on the LM).
Looks like you're bringing a MET! |
GACspaceguy
Member Posts: 2476
From: Guyton, GA
Registered: Jan 2006
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posted 11-02-2011 01:40 PM
I really wish I had thought about taking the LM to be autographed sooner. If I had it may looked like a MET or a LRV. This was a last minute plan. We have thought about getting it signed in the past but have been concerned at the transport. We (mostly I) had one of those moments last week that hit us, while we were preparing what we were going to get signed. We never know how many opportunities like this we have left.Let me share a signing story that exemplifies this. I obtained an official NASA photo of Wally Schirra walking down the stairs of a Gulfstream I back when that was the mode of transportation for NASA VIPs. I wanted to get that signed so bad, but when Farthest Reaches had a signing I did not send it because I wanted to hold out for meeting Wally getting the photo signed and talk about flying in the GI back in the day. Well I am sure you know what happened In May of 2007, Wally passed away and I never did have that photo signed. I missed a sure fire opportunity waiting on a "better one" to come along. I have learned not to wait for tomorrows because some tomorrows never come... |
steelhead fly fishing
Member Posts: 29
From: Cape Canaveral, FL
Registered: Aug 2010
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posted 11-02-2011 02:42 PM
Impressive LM you are bringing down here. I'd try to get all 5 of the guys at the show who rode it to the lunar surface to sign. That would be one from each lunar landing... however you do it, it will look impressive... Very nice!!!!!! |
Spacefest
Member Posts: 1168
From: Tucson, AZ
Registered: Jan 2009
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posted 11-02-2011 03:55 PM
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Originally posted by steelhead fly fishing:
That would be one from each lunar landing...
Six missions. $1000+. Seven if you count Jim McDivitt, the first to fly it in space. Eight if you count Apollo 13. |
mjanovec
Member Posts: 3811
From: Midwest, USA
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted 11-02-2011 05:02 PM
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Originally posted by Spacefest:
Seven if you count Jim McDivitt, the first to fly it in space. Eight if you count Apollo 13.
There were nine manned LM missions total, if you count Apollo 10. Apollo 9 and Apollo 13 (and, to a lesser degree, Apollo 10) were key missions in history of the LM...even if the LM didn't land on the lunar surface. Certainly, without the LM, the crew of Apollo 13 would have have quickly died when the CM's batteries and oxygen ran out. |
KSCartist
Member Posts: 2896
From: Titusville, FL USA
Registered: Feb 2005
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posted 11-02-2011 06:01 PM
I'll be at the show with some of my patches and 16x20 posters of my painting "One Small Step... for a Woman" honoring Eileen Collins. I look forward to seeing many cS-ers there. |
AJ
Member Posts: 511
From: Plattsburgh, NY, United States
Registered: Feb 2009
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posted 11-02-2011 07:20 PM
We're headed down tomorrow morning, arriving around lunchtime! If you're at the Radisson or KSC and see a gleeful dark-haired 30 year old girl with a smiley 88 year old grandmother, that'd be me.  Hope everyone has a wonderful time!! |
Mark Zimmer
Member Posts: 289
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Registered: Aug 2004
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posted 11-02-2011 08:41 PM
We should be arriving at the hotel about 5 on Thursday. Hope to see some of you! |
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