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[ilbasso]

I'm interested in hearing about and seeing pictures of the kinds of space-related geegaws, doodads, mementos, and other artifacts that other space nuts have collected!

Here's one to share to start things off. In September 1969, my dad went on a VIP tour of the Manned Spaceflight Center (now Johnson) and Kennedy Spaceflight Center. (He got to see Apollo 12 being assembled in the VAB! I'm trying to get copies of his slides.) Anyway, one of the things he was given was this 15 inch by 22 inch (38 x 56 cm), three-dimensional, vacuformed plastic replica of part of the model used for lunar landing simulator trainers. This is a part of Apollo Site 3, in Sinus Medii. The raised surface depicted is roughly 650 meters on a side, too small to be seen in the Apollo 10 photos of the area. I have not been able to find Lunar Orbiter photos of the area. There is no vertical exaggeration in scale.

[djellison]

Well - I have a tiny little piece of spare Beagle 2 Heatshield material...it's just like the cork you might make a cork board out of, but a little more fiberous and fine grained. I've always been more interested in unmanned spaceflight than manned spaceflight ( although I do love a good EVA ) - and so if I was going to smash some cash on something - I'd really really like a tiny bit of the Stardust return capsule, or a bit of spare MLI from New Horizons - just a little bit of the 'stuff' from which these dreams are made.

Other than that...er... a ballast slug from a Renault F1 car and a smashed piece of Minardi F1X2 wheel rim from a race at Rockingham...ooops - sorry, wrong subject - but they're cool

I like yours - I think someone's done some little relief maps of mars that you can buy - I'm tempted by the Gusev one

Doug