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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Bags of this type were used by astronauts to store items in the Command Module and Lunar Module. While bags of this type flew on most Apollo missions, unfortunately the Apollo Stowage Lists did not record the serial numbers of the bags that flew to the moon. This accessories bag was manufactured by Welson &
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This past weekend I had a chance to attend an Apollo astronaut event and to see the launch of STS-117 (Space Shuttle Atlantis). What a cool weekend to meet and chat with Apollo astronauts, mission control specialists, and others from the original American space programs. I saw the launch (7:38PM) from the causeway. This photo
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This beautifully crafted communications control assembly was used for routing communications, biomedical signals, and warning tones. The control head, often referred to as a "Cobra Head" by the astronauts, allowed the astronaut to speak to crewmates over the intercom (I’COM) or to Houston (XMIT). This example contains NASA stamps identification part numbers V56-715100-21 0632 and
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The bottom of this fascinating artifact reads: "This is a segment of the actual backing restraint material removed from mission commander James A Lovell’s spacecraft couch aboard the Apollo 13 command module ‘Odyssey’. This artifact symbolizes one of the greatest human dramas to ever unfold in space during the near catastrophic mission of Apollo 13,
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This interesting book about Russians astronauts and the Russian space program by Evgeny Riabchikov is an excellent English language primer on the subject. My copy has been signed by Valentina Tereshikova – Vostok 6 (first woman in space), Alexi Leonov – Voskhod 2 (World’s first EVA “Space walk”) ASTP, Valery Kubasov – Soyuz 6, ASTP,
I collect signed astronaut and other Apollo biographies. Since I am a writer (three books so far) and I know what it takes to write a book I find that signed books are more interesting than the signed photos that many others collect.
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After the Apollo 11 astronauts returned to earth in July 1969, the whole of America (and the world) went moon crazy. Souvenirs of all kinds were created. I like this pennant—it’s classic of the time period.
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The astronauts became famous celebrities and many people wanted their autographs. When requests came in to the astronaut offices in Florida or Houston they were often fulfilled by using an autopen signature on a crew portrait. I find these items fascinating and have an example of each Apollo crew portrait with autopen signatures in my
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This card was used in training by the astronauts of the Apollo 16 mission. It outlined the procedures to repressurize the cabin of the Command Module in an emergency. The card has duct tape on the side to easily grab and Velcro on the back to affix it to its place in the CM. Presumably
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