Buy Your Own Astro-Relics At The Space History Sale

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boy they saved all this but couldn't keep the original copy of the first step on the moon....

That Space Magna Carta would be sweet. What's neat about that document is that any large museum that concerns itself with technological or social achievement would part with a decent honorarium to display it for a while. So, you can send it on a world tour to share it, but keep it too, as well as some return on the investment. Not to mention that the museums insure your treasure for you while they have it, whether you have other insurance on it or not. And other benefits.

That Cosmonaut glove there looks far superior to our polymer-in-space capability of the day. Now if it was comparable in thermal and radiation protection-that would be something I might go digging into; but just it's existence in use at that time is significant.

As for maneuvering logs, I'd like to see Armstrong's Lunar Tour, maybe a full thrust major adjustment for Mir, ISS (complete), Skylab; and definitely some EVA suit logs. Maybe a log from the magnetic boot test. 2 humans and Robonaut 2 repair and launch satellite would make an awesome log to have.

@ PopSci; Doing a spread on these various types of maneuvering logs would make for a great spread.

We could learn a good bit from that silicon disc now, having laid there so long. Wonder if they've thought of that.

As to the missile motor; I'm sure it's a neat piece, but if I can't fire it there's no point other than to drive me insane and make me build rocket motors against my will. Beware the mad machinist stuff. It's expensive.



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