These Apollo News Reference Manuals were used by journalists who covered the Apollo program. It took me four years to acquire a pair as these manuals have become highly sought after. The pair include almost 500 pages of in depth detail about the Apollo spacecraft in the words of the contractors who built them. Chapters […]
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Model BEFORE (see below for after) I purchased a beat-up Grumman LM contractors model on eBay. I had always wanted one and watched for a few months before the right one became available. Fortunately, Andy Lagomarsino agreed to work on the model and bring it up to pristine condition. Learn more about what Andy does
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This is a support truss from the lunar module. It is amazingly light. It must be close to (or even less than) one pound, but I don’t have a scale that is that small. Comparing my body weight with and without the truss is negligible. The truss is 21 inches long and 1 3/8 inches
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Apollo Saturn S-II (Second Stage) Liquid Hydrogen (LH2) dual function tank Vent and Relief Valve was manufactured by Wallace O. Leonard Inc. under subcontract to North American Aviation (prime for the S-II). The valve was produced in 1966. The LH2 Vent-Relief valve, used as part of the single Rocketdyne J-2 engine system which powered the
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This is a rare rope memory module made for the Block I (before the Apollo 1 fire) Model 100 Apollo Guidance and Navigation Computer. The computers that formed the basis of the Apollo Guidance and Navigation System (AGNS) were at the cutting edge of technology in the 1960s. They were the first to use the
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This flashlight was made by ACR for NASA. ACR contracted out the flashlights to Fulton Industries in Wauseon Ohio. It is stamped ACR FA- 5 Serial No. 3016 Date of Mfg. 8-72. This flashlight has no known history of being on an Apollo mission. It still works brilliantly. The wooden mockup was used by the
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This is a circular chunk of the heat shield from Apollo 9. Heat shields were manufactured by AVCO Corporation, with integration by NAA (North American Aviation), and are comprised of an extremely lightweight fiberglass honeycomb which is hand filled by air gun with the ablative resin material. The ablative system dissipates heat as the material
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The secondary sample storage container, used in the Lunar Receiving Laboratory allowed for easy division of samples within vacuum cabinets and had high, large threads to hold a vacuum seal in case of emergency.
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I’ve worked in marketing and PR my entire career and am fascinated by the press kits put out by NASA and by the contractors. I was fortunate to have acquired a set of complete press kits used by a journalist while covering the Apollo 11 mission. Included are press kits from IBM (Computer systems), North
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This is an exact replica 1″ scale cube to those that are used to show size and orientation of lunar samples at the Lunar Receiving Lab. These scale cubes are made of machined, anodized aluminum, with engraved markings filled with baked enamel.
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