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By: Gavin St. Ours » Hundreds of space items for auction January 13

Gavin St. Ours » Hundreds of space items for auction January 13 — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 23:25:33 +0000

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By: Thomas Ponton

Thomas Ponton — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 14:32:47 +0000

$5000 is probably a pretty good deal for that headset. I’m sure it only cost $75,000 to make originally:)

By: ThomasS

ThomasS — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 12:00:54 +0000

I’m curious though, how does anyone know that this is the actual headset that Charlie Duke used? Couldn’t it just be a ‘piece of the true cross’ pseudo-artifact?

By: Happy Camper

Happy Camper — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 11:52:51 +0000

Cool Stuff, unfortunately it’s all out of my price range. How about an F1 engine and lots of kerosene and LOX (not really).
The local state college used to have an observatory dome that was used at the cape for tracking the launches. The Astronomy club tried to get it (the college didn’t want it any more) but the college destroyed it because they were afraid of liability if anyone got hurt moving it! Sad and very short sighted if you ask me.

By: MadScientist

MadScientist — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 10:18:05 +0000

I think I’ll stick to mooching caps and pins from the folks at the AGU. At one point I had a specialized gas cell which was a prototype for one installed on a satellite – but people never ask me about the gas cell, they always talk about the pins and caps.

By: Wayne on the Plains

Wayne on the Plains — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 08:39:55 +0000

@ 5 Tom,

I asked Charlie Duke about that one time at an ASA meeting. Actually, I asked him if he knew about the change in call sign, but he knew what I was really asking and said that he did know Armstrong was going to change to “Tranquility Base”, but flubbed the word in the general excitement.
I decided later that he’d probably been asked about that a zillion times and I probably wasn’t being as clever as I thought I was.

By: Compra un pedazo de historia espacial

Compra un pedazo de historia espacial — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 00:17:29 +0000

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Compra un pedazo de historia espacial — Amazings.es — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 23:30:24 +0000

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By: kuhnigget

kuhnigget — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 23:26:12 +0000

@ Sean:

NASA is NOT auctioning any of the memorabilia. The items have come from private collections.

I’m glad to hear that, actually. Something kind of stinks when stuff you’ve already paid for goes up for auction.

By: Frying dutchmen

Frying dutchmen — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 22:26:37 +0000

Min bid 5000 I guest I’ll be out if someone bids 5001

By: Brown

Brown — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 21:47:31 +0000

The item of greatest interest to me is the Apollo instrument panel, even though it appears to be from a trainer and never got off the ground. The panel is all wired up and probably doesn’t work, but I wonder what would happen if I set SCE to “Aux” …

(For those unfamiliar with the meaning of “SCE to ‘Aux,’” read about John Aaron’s famous call during the Apollo 12 mission, or watch the Apollo 12 episode from the series, “From the Earth to the Moon.”)

By: sean

sean — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 21:06:29 +0000

NASA is NOT auctioning any of the memorabilia. The items have come from private collections.

http://www.space.com/news/space-artifacts-auction-110103.html confirms it.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 19:52:56 +0000

Chuck, NASA actually is getting rid of those heat shields you mentioned – 7000 of them! But they’re not for sale to the general public; instead, they’re being distributed to schools and universities: http://gsaxcess.gov/NASAWel.htm It won’t make them money, but it’s a cool program to get kids interested in NASA, I think.

By: NASA gaat historische Apollo-spullen veilen | Astroblogs

NASA gaat historische Apollo-spullen veilen | Astroblogs — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 19:39:16 +0000

[...] NASA gaat historische Apollo-spullen veilen Adrianus V | 6 januari 2011 om 20:38u. Dè Apollo-headsetMocht je nog wat over hebben van je Kerstbonus dan weet ik er wel een bestemming voor hoor. De NASA start op donderdag namelijk een veiling waarin diverse spullen uit het Apolloprogramma gaan worden geveild. Op de website waar je de te veilen spullen kunt bekijken staan 22 pagina’s vol met historische dingen, zoals de headset waarmee Charlie Duke vanuit Houston als CAPCOM praatte met Neil Armstrong, die op dat moment op de maan ronddoolde. Via deze headset kwamen dus de historische woorden – ‘it’s one small step … blablabla – binnen vanaf de maan! Het minimumbod voor dit heilige goedje is $ 5.000,-, maar ik neem aan dat er uiteindelijk een veel hoger bedrag zal uitrollen. Duke is trouwens een paar vluchten verderop zelf ook naar de maan gereisd, bij de Apollo 16 om precies te zijn. Het is niet de eerste keer dat de NASA spullen in de verkoop doet. April vorig jaar was er ook al zo’n veiling met Apollo-rekwisieten, eind oktober 2008 werden diverse patenten van de NASA geveild en januari 2010 werd bekendgemaakt dat de drie Space Shuttle - Atlantis, Discovery en Endeavour – te koop staan. Maar ja, die laatste drie moeten eerst nog hun allerlaatste vlucht meemaken dit jaar. Bron: Bad Astronomy. [...]

By: pk_boomer

pk_boomer — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 19:26:38 +0000

Does the headset still work?

By: Ray

Ray — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 19:00:31 +0000

@Chuck,

I found several places selling tiles.

http://www.ketzer.com/space_flown_artifacts/frameset.html?http://www.ketzer.com/space_flown_artifacts/space.html

http://www.thespacestore.com/spshthti.html

By: World’s Strangest | Space Auction

World’s Strangest | Space Auction — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 18:19:45 +0000

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By: Calli Arcale

Calli Arcale — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 17:55:44 +0000

Chuck — I don’t know if it’s a used one, but when I scanned briefly and randomly through the list of items up for auction, I did notice at least one Shuttle TPS tile up for auction.

By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 17:54:01 +0000

Sounds like a good idea – gives us normal folk some interesting memorabilia and gives NASA a little extra cash (although I doubt it’s going to fund a new project ).

By: Amateur Astronaut » Hundreds of space items for auction January 13

Amateur Astronaut » Hundreds of space items for auction January 13 — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 17:24:43 +0000

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By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 17:06:54 +0000

If I had that headset, you know I’d be playing NASA. I’d be saying “roger Twang…Tranquility we copy you down, we got a bunch of guys about to turn blue…”
Ha!

Tom

By: Chuck Anziulewicz

Chuck Anziulewicz — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:42:07 +0000

If NASA is really strapped for cash, there’s all SORTS of things they could sell or auction off. How about all those spent ceramic heat tiles from the space shuttles? Seems like every time a shuttle would return to Earth, some of those tiles had to be replaced. So what happened to the old ones? Well, according to an old high school friend of mine who has worked for the shuttle program for many years now, they get buried in some sort of bunker with all kinds of other high-tech debris. Why not SELL it? I’d be willing to pay a few hundred bucks for a spent heat tile from one of the shuttles!

By: Maria

Maria — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:32:32 +0000

Hah. Flight flown playboy calendar. That is awesome.

By: Gary

Gary — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:25:14 +0000

What? You don’t want #142 Apollo — moon food? Yum!

By: Jayne Cravens

Jayne Cravens — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 15:31:20 +0000

“I’d play NASA all the time!”

Um… don’t you already?

I do (hangs head in shame…).