posted 09-18-2020 11:11 AM               

Frank Borman 2020 Signing

Gemini 7 and Apollo 8 mission commander Frank Borman is coming back to Novaspace.com in Tucson, where he will sign your mailed-in items privately at our office in late October! Don't miss this opportunity to get a custom-signed item for your collection. Simply decide how you want your items signed, fill in the order form, and get them to us by the deadline.

We are able to get pioneer astronauts to come to our shop for private, mail-in signings (no visitors) because of our unequaled reach and experience in the astronaut autograph market. In order to perform a private signing as flawlessly as we do, we must pay extreme attention to every detail: what, how, where, what color to sign, as well as returning hundreds of orders promptly and accurately.

This is not a public event; you cannot attend in person. Deadline for receiving all orders and items at Novaspace is Saturday, October 10, 2020.

Col. Borman is a “cold warrior.” His goal was to beat the Soviet Union to the moon. He didn’t care about the science or glory; his overriding concern was winning. After the Apollo 1 fire threatened to halt the Apollo program, his testimony before Congress saved the program. He became the Manager of the Apollo redesign team, showing the type of style that would later land him as the CEO of Eastern Airlines. The spacecraft was completely re-engineered in a little over a year. Borman was rewarded by personally beating the Soviets to the moon.

Click here for instructions, fees and order form.

posted 09-19-2020 06:25 PM               

I'd really like some feedback on what inscription to get on an Earthrise photo. Still also debating between 8x10 or 16x20. Here are the candidates I've come up with so far:

• In the beginning God...

• God saw that it was good

• Earthrise, Christmas 1968

• Christmas Eve, 1968

• God bless all of you - all of you on the good Earth

posted 09-19-2020 09:02 PM               

I have two Earthrise prints, signed by Borman and Collins. I got both printed at the Nation's Photo Lab website. If you use the "metallic" option, you get the photo printed with metallic inks, and the colors look amazing. And right now, they have all 16x20" prints on sale for under $15. So it's a great item at a very low price.

I still happen to have the HD digital file I sent to them. It's cropped to the 16x20" format and ready to go:

As for the inscription, I've been holding out hope for years that Novaspace will do another signing with Jim Lovell, so I can get both on my Earthrise print. If you'd also like to eventually have Lovell's signature, you may want to consider a Borman inscription which would go well with a Lovell inscription. Something like this:

posted 09-22-2020 05:51 PM               

I've also sent Certified Mail, that still has not been delivered after over 3 weeks, even though in theory it should only take 2-3 days to deliver it. I have also heard, via the rare coin collecting field, of various people who have sent items via Registered Mail (which is insurable) that the USPS has lost in transit.

Basically, what I'm saying is, if you have a high value item or an item of personal significance, I'd think about it before mailing it right now.

On the other hand, Novaspace has some great in house pictures you can purchase and have Borman sign.

posted 09-22-2020 10:11 PM               

I have found though, on some of the items I've had "go missing" the issue wasn't them actually missing. When I send in a request to find it, it usually had been in a transit facility waiting to move on due to a lack of employees handling items. My tracing usually results in it "showing up."

I've not used UPS but have used FedEx — no issues at all with them. Not all that much more pricewise, and it it's something like I mentioned above, at this stage of the game I'd go with them.

Or as Skyman says, use one of their images. But I wouldn't let any of this dissuade you from missing out on the signing, just insure, track, and follow up — or use FedEx.

posted 10-22-2020 12:53 PM               

Frank Borman came to Novaspace for a mail-in private signing on Oct. 21, 2020. We asked you to send in your questions for Frank, and here are his answers!