[meteorite-list] Moon Memorabilia Auction + Contact info

From: Galactic Stone & Ironworks <meteoritemike_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2011 18:14:09 -0400
Message-ID: <CAKBPJW-XOvwkyPoT4AT5A6HbgiA-Kj_M=qQkdsDSBVO9nvbMzA_at_mail.gmail.com>

The only thing the NYT editor and that horrible writer deserve to
receive is a subpoena informing them of a class-action lawsuit for
defamation and slander on the behalf of the meteorite community.



On 7/9/11, Yinan Wang <veomega at gmail.com> wrote:
> Here we go again!
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> On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 3:09 PM, JoshuaTreeMuseum
> <joshuatreemuseum at embarqmail.com> wrote:
>> We'll see how this one goes:
>>
>> http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/10/science/space/10moon.html?_r=1&hp
>>
>> Shreds of Moon History on the Block
>> By DOUGLAS QUENQUA
>> Published: July 9, 2011
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>> It was two weeks before the liftoff of the Apollo 11 mission when Thomas
>> Moser's boss walked into his office at NASA and announced, "We're putting
>> a
>> flag on the moon."
>>
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>> Goldberg Coins and Collectibles
>> At bottom, remnants of the American flag that went to the moon, signed by
>> Mr. Armstrong, are expected to bring $100,000 at auction.
>>
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>> NASA
>> Buzz Aldrin in a photograph taken by Neil Armstrong.
>>
>> Mr. Moser, then a 30-year-old mechanical engineer, was put in charge of
>> designing a flag mechanism that could not only fit into the lunar module
>> and
>> survive the flight, but also make the flag appear to fly on the windless
>> moon.
>>
>> His solution involved two sections of a staff, a telescoping tube and a
>> nylon flag bought at a local housing goods store (Sears, he thinks). But
>> in
>> order for the flag to fit the staff, its edges needed to be trimmed. "They
>> were throwing it all in the trash," Mr. Moser recalled of the remnants in
>> a
>> recent interview, "so I picked it up out of the trash can, mounted it and
>> had Neil Armstrong sign it."
>>
>> Forty-two years later, Mr. Moser is auctioning off those flag remnants.
>> The
>> expected selling price: $100,000.
>>
>> "There's so much attention on the manned space program right now that the
>> timing may be good," Mr. Moser said, referring to the final launching of
>> the
>> space shuttle Atlantis on Friday.
>>
>> Mr. Moser's flag shreds are the star lot of an extensive space memorabilia
>> auction being held in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Sunday. Other notable
>> items
>> include the astronaut Deke Slayton's handwritten training notes from the
>> Mercury program and dozens of heat shields, crew patches and other
>> ephemera
>> that once transcended earthly bounds.
>>
>> For collectors, the remnants of the space flag are "comparable to a Betsy
>> Ross flag or the flag flying over the port in Baltimore in 1812," said
>> Michael Orenstein, who is overseeing the auction for Goldberg Coins and
>> Collectibles. Two days before the auction, online pre-bidding for the lot
>> had reached $49,999.
>>
>> But trading in space nostalgia can be a dangerous business. In June,
>> investigators confiscated a triangular nub of transparent tape an eighth
>> of
>> an inch wide from an auction house in St. Louis because it contained tiny
>> particles of moon dust. Selling moon rocks, no matter how small, is
>> illegal,
>> as is selling NASA property that the agency has not willingly disposed of.
>>
>> Mr. Orenstein said that his auction contained no moon particles, and that
>> all NASA property in the sale had been discarded by the agency long ago. A
>> NASA spokesman declined to comment on the status of the items.
>>
>> There are also economic concerns. The collectibles market tends to follow
>> the overall economy; when money is tight, even avid collectors are less
>> likely to spend money on memorabilia. But Mr. Orenstein said he believed
>> that rule did not apply to one-of-a-kind items like the flag remnants.
>> "Just
>> give me two flag collectors who can't live without it," he said.
>>
>> As for Mr. Moser, he does not plan to attend the auction, but he was at
>> Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday to watch the Atlantis lift off.
>> "I
>> spent most of my life developing the shuttle," said Mr. Moser, who retired
>> from NASA in 1989 after 25 years with the agency. "I was there from sketch
>> pad to launch pad."
>>
>> A version of this article appeared in print on July 10, 2011, on page A15
>> of
>> the New York edition with the headline: Shreds of History, Going on the
>> Block.
>>
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>> Phil Whitmer
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