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Space Junk, What artifacts have you collected?
ilbasso
post Jan 27 2006, 09:28 PM
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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.




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- ilbasso   Space Junk   Jan 27 2006, 09:28 PM
- - djellison   Well - I have a tiny little piece of spare Beagle ...   Jan 27 2006, 09:42 PM
|- - chris   QUOTE (djellison @ Jan 27 2006, 09:42 PM)Well...   Jan 28 2006, 05:04 PM
- - Bob Shaw   That vac-form is a gorgeous item! Very nice, a...   Jan 27 2006, 10:00 PM
|- - ljk4-1   QUOTE (Bob Shaw @ Jan 27 2006, 05:00 PM)That ...   Jan 28 2006, 12:53 AM
|- - Bob Shaw   QUOTE (ljk4-1 @ Jan 28 2006, 01:53 AM)Wh...   Jan 28 2006, 12:59 PM
- - ilbasso   I have one other goodie I'm proud of - a 1-inc...   Jan 27 2006, 10:51 PM
- - edstrick   Besides the off-the-air audiotapes of manned and u...   Jan 28 2006, 09:59 AM
- - PhilCo126   Way too much to list Some Russian Sokol and Orl...   Jan 28 2006, 10:30 AM
|- - Bob Shaw   QUOTE (PhilCo126 @ Jan 28 2006, 11:30 AM)Way ...   Jan 28 2006, 07:58 PM
- - ilbasso   Yes, PICTURES!!!!   Jan 28 2006, 09:46 PM
|- - The Messenger   QUOTE (ilbasso @ Jan 28 2006, 02:46 PM)Yes, P...   Jan 28 2006, 11:19 PM
- - edstrick   A cute item in Dad's kitchen drawer is a flat-...   Jan 29 2006, 10:28 AM
- - tasp   I have a piece of Skylab (really) I also have som...   Jan 29 2006, 06:04 PM
|- - Bob Shaw   QUOTE (tasp @ Jan 29 2006, 07:04 PM)I have a ...   Jan 29 2006, 08:08 PM
- - ElkGroveDan   Well since we are now mentioning aircraft parts, I...   Jan 29 2006, 06:33 PM
- - tasp   Skylab posters with a fragment of Skylab recovered...   Jan 30 2006, 04:40 AM
- - PhilCo126   Well You could be amazed what's sitting in pri...   Feb 3 2006, 08:47 PM

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