Moon Moolah: Auction Bidders Can Buy Memoirs of NASA's Apollo Program [Slide Show]
Here are 10 items from the dozens of space race artifacts, including a piece of an actual manned lunar spacecraft, that will be auctioned off April 13
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Moon Moolah: Auction Bidders Can Buy Memoirs of NASA's Apollo Program [Slide Show]
- ONE SMALL STEP On this page of his flight plan, Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong inscribed his famous line that he had uttered while taking his first step onto the lunar surface, "[That's] one small step for man—one giant leap for mankind," a few days after returning to Earth (while he was still in quarantine)... COURTESY OF BONHAMS NEW YORK
- CRITICAL FLIGHT NOTES AND UPDATES BY LOVELL AND HAISE MADE DURING APOLLO 13 This lunar module contingency checklist was flown on Apollo 13 , which did not land on the moon because of an oxygen tank explosion en route that caused a series of spacecraft failures, including the loss of the primary life support and fuel-cell power systems—a contingency for which these documents described emergency procedures... COURTESY OF BONHAMS NEW YORK
- SUN FILTER CARRIED TO THE LUNAR SURFACE, WITH LUNAR DUST This crewman optical alignment sight (COAS) sun filter, flown on Apollo 12 , has a 13-centimeter square metal frame, 3.8-centimeter-diameter tinted glass, a small Velcro tab and a 15-centimeter-long strap with embedded lunar dust... COURTESY OF BONHAMS NEW YORK
- FLOWN APOLLO 11 LUNAR SUFRACE EQUIPMENT WITH LUNAR DUST This data file clip is made from two plates of aluminum 5.7 by 4.4 centimeters long. A spring mounted between the plates provides the tension to hold them closed so as to grip checklist sheets, flight maps and any loose articles floating in the weightless conditions during the journey to the moon or in the one-sixth gravity environment on the lunar surface... COURTESY OF BONHAMS NEW YORK
- APOLLO FDAI COMMAND MODULES MAIN CONTROL PANEL FLIGHT INSTRUMENT The Flight Director Attitude Indicator (FDAI) instrument is contained within a cylindrical metal housing 28 centimeters long and nearly 18 centimeters in diameter. A small "eight ball" globe inside the unit defines the relative location of the spacecraft in three-dimensional space... COURTESY OF BONHAMS NEW YORK
- APOLLO 14 DUST BRUSH USED ON THE LUNAR SURFACE This 20-centimeter-long lens dust brush boldly journeyed were few men had gone before—to the moon's surface. Astronauts Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell stayed nearly 34 hours on the moon's surface during the Apollo 14 mission... COURTESY OF BONHAMS NEW YORK
- APOLLO 14 DOCKING RING NASA's decision to fly Apollo missions using lunar orbit rendezvous required the development of a mechanism to join, separate and then rejoin two spacecraft. That's where this 18-kilogram titanium ring—91 centimeters in diameter and 15 centimeters high—came in... COURTESY OF BONHAMS NEW YORK
