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Forum: Hardware & Flown Items
Topic: Neil Armstrong's Apollo personal preference kits

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Message to Edit: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	Originally posted by David Carey on 07-17-2025 07:39 PM Great stuff, Robert. To quote from your longer writeup; <BLOCKQUOTE>[i]And then there is the original number 22 on one of Armstrong's command module lists. He crossed it out, signaling that it did not fly, but it appears to have read "Von Braun Plate," seemingly something connected to the German rocket pioneer and NASA director, Wernher von Braun.[/i]</BLOCKQUOTE> While there is no way to be sure, perhaps the original #22 was this item, from the estate of Mitchell Sharpe, a key Marshall Space Flight Center player involved in Saturn V development and later an author of much space-related history. It certainly fits the description nicely and provenance (particularly with Sharpe's typed note) would be consistent as well since Sharpe worked closely with Von Braun. A writeup on Sharpe and his NASA/post-NASA career can be [URL=https://epizodyspace.ru/bibl/inostr-yazyki/iaa/2005/Dannenberg_Tarter_Mitchell_R_Sharpe.pdf]found here[/URL]. <center><a href="http://www.collectspace.com/review/davidcarey/armstrong_apollo_11_ppk_von_braun_plate01-lg.jpg" target="AirLock"><img src="http://www.collectspace.com/review/davidcarey/armstrong_apollo_11_ppk_von_braun_plate01.jpg" width="400" height="496" border="0"></a></center>
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