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Topic: Signing experience: Last shuttle crew (STS-135)
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sixturners Member Posts: 147 From: E. Lansing, MI, USA Registered: Dec 2000
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posted 01-20-2013 01:35 PM
Anyone have experience obtaining a signed item by the crew of STS-135? Will they sign a cover that is sent to them individually?I would really like to add an STS-135 crew signed cover to my collection. Any feedback would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. |
Hart Sastrowardoyo Member Posts: 3445 From: Toms River, NJ Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 01-20-2013 02:51 PM
In-person, they were great, got all four on a photo. May be harder now, requiring four sendouts. |
mjanovec Member Posts: 3811 From: Midwest, USA Registered: Jul 2005
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posted 01-20-2013 06:45 PM
I would not recommend sending anything to them individually in order to construct a crew-signed piece. Not all of the crew members are responsive about signing through the mail (particularly Hurley), so you risk losing your piece or getting a dreaded autopen.In fact, most shuttle crews over the past decade contained at least one or two tough signers. |
Mike Dixon Member Posts: 1397 From: Kew, Victoria, Australia Registered: May 2003
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posted 01-20-2013 07:00 PM
quote: Originally posted by mjanovec: Not all of the crew members are responsive about signing through the mail (particularly Hurley), so you risk losing your piece or getting a dreaded autopen.
Testify Brother!! |
eurospace Member Posts: 2610 From: Brussels, Belgium Registered: Dec 2000
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posted 01-21-2013 12:30 AM
You are far too late, my friend. This worked right before the launch, and shortly thereafter, but now that the crew is disbanded you'll have a hard time assembling a crew signed cover. Ferguson, Walheim and Magnus are fair signers (even though we'll have yet to find about Magnus in her new position), but Hurley won't sign. He did sign with the crew while the crew was still together, but never out of this context. There are, however, crew signed covers on the market. Talk to me off-line if you want to hear more. — Jürgen |
Space Geek FL Member Posts: 20 From: Inverness, FL, USA Registered: Oct 2011
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posted 01-21-2013 01:06 PM
I would like to offer a different opinion, I sent a photo to JSC taken of the crew and myself at KSC and was able to get it signed by both Doug Hurley and Rex Walheim in December. I hope to someday get Sandy Magnus and Chris Ferguson to complete the photo. I don't think I would send anything you are afraid to loose but I would take the chance. |
MrSpace86 Member Posts: 1618 From: Gardner, KS, USA Registered: Feb 2003
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posted 01-21-2013 01:40 PM
I was fortunate enough to receive crew signed items from STS-135 before and shortly after launch. However, with my requests, I always asked if it were possible to have each individual astronaut portrait signed but never received them. They signed a photo I sent and then eventually an official NASA crew photo. |
Hart Sastrowardoyo Member Posts: 3445 From: Toms River, NJ Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 03-27-2013 06:31 PM
quote: Originally posted by eurospace: Ferguson, Walheim and Magnus are fair signers (even though we'll have yet to find about Magnus in her new position)...
Magnus signed at an AIAA event in Washington, DC earlier this month. |
Shuttle Endeavour Member Posts: 234 From: Freehold, NJ, USA Registered: Aug 2013
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posted 02-15-2014 04:45 PM
Has anyone tried sending autographs to Sandy Magnus after STS-135 and after she retired from NASA?Editor's note: Threads merged. |
eurospace Member Posts: 2610 From: Brussels, Belgium Registered: Dec 2000
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posted 02-16-2014 06:13 AM
Yes, but without a reply thus far. |
JBoe Member Posts: 959 From: Churchton, MD Registered: Oct 2012
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posted 02-16-2014 07:13 AM
I too tried to reach out to Dr. Magnus and no reply as of yet (maybe too early ). I hope to catch her at the National Air and Space Museum lecture in March. |
Hart Sastrowardoyo Member Posts: 3445 From: Toms River, NJ Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 02-16-2014 08:24 AM
If you're talking about NASM as in downtown DC (as opposed to Udvar-Hazy), secondhand experience has been that it's hit or miss whether or not astronauts will sign... most often it's a miss, unless they have a scheduled signing, as with Mark Kelly's book. |
jiffyq58 Member Posts: 218 From: Durham, NC, USA Registered: Jun 2011
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posted 02-16-2014 10:30 AM
It's Udvar-Hazy on March 14. And Bob Crippen will be there, too. And for those who can hang around another day, Pam Melroy will be speaking there on the 15th.A pretty good trifecta of shuttle astronauts. |
JBoe Member Posts: 959 From: Churchton, MD Registered: Oct 2012
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posted 02-16-2014 02:53 PM
I was referring to the Udvar-Hazy opportunity in March. I hope that the elusive Magnus autograph will be obtained there since it's almost been 18 months without a reply via USPS and almost a month via other means. |
Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 42981 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 03-10-2014 01:02 PM
quote: Originally posted by JBoe: I hope that the elusive Magnus autograph will be obtained there...
The museum has announced that Magnus and the other panelists will be signing copies of "Space Shuttle Legacy: How We Did It and What We Learned" by Roger Launius, but "will not be signing any other items." |
Hart Sastrowardoyo Member Posts: 3445 From: Toms River, NJ Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 05-13-2016 11:41 AM
Walheim signed at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences earlier this month. |
jiffyq58 Member Posts: 218 From: Durham, NC, USA Registered: Jun 2011
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posted 05-13-2016 12:37 PM
Hart, were you there? If so, sorry I didn't get to meet you. It was a fun event, and Rex was great about signing a few photos for my son. |
Hart Sastrowardoyo Member Posts: 3445 From: Toms River, NJ Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 05-13-2016 06:47 PM
Unfortunately, I was not. And when I am in North Carolina, I'm on the other side of the state - I usually visit Bostic, where Abe Lincoln was supposedly born. |
Hart Sastrowardoyo Member Posts: 3445 From: Toms River, NJ Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 07-08-2016 11:29 AM
Got the last two astronauts I needed on my photo - Doug Hurley and Chris Ferguson were great signing today at KSCVC, not so coincidentally, the fifth anniversary of 135's launch. |
onesmallstep Member Posts: 1310 From: Staten Island, New York USA Registered: Nov 2007
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posted 07-11-2016 01:57 PM
Hart, I must admire your tenacity in getting signed items like for Atlantis' final crew. I got my 'gets' when they did their post-flight tour and stopped in NYC (I attended an event at the Museum of Natural History/Hayden Planetarium and got a crew litho and philatelic launch cover signed). |
Hart Sastrowardoyo Member Posts: 3445 From: Toms River, NJ Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 07-11-2016 06:40 PM
Thanks! I met the 135 crew when they were at the Eventi Hotel on the same NYC leg of their tour - it seemed like a lot easier to get them there. I got a photo signed by all four, but when I saw the STS-1 and 135 photo, I felt like I needed a new challenge and within a year I got it signed by all (except Young, of course.)I'm thinking of trying to complete as much as possible a similar STS-1 and original 133 crew photo... |
MrSpace86 Member Posts: 1618 From: Gardner, KS, USA Registered: Feb 2003
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posted 07-12-2016 09:23 AM
Would there be a chance that Young will do another signing? He has kind of disappeared altogether |
Hart Sastrowardoyo Member Posts: 3445 From: Toms River, NJ Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 07-12-2016 10:09 AM
Unlikely due to health problems, which is why I consider my STS-1/135 photo crew complete. (And in any case, I couldn't afford his signing fee - I could get almost 30 astronauts for that.) |