Post Your Space Themed Medals & Other Exonumia!

Very interesting!

I posted this earlier in the fantasy overstrike thread, seems like a nice fit here too.


Enjoy

50 years ago this month....





See: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/skylab

Found this one recently. I doubt it is rare since it dates from the 90's but I cannot find another example.

TDRSS explained:

https://space.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/Programs/tdrss.html

1988 Young Astronauts Program Silver Medal

The mate to Chopped Triumph's 50 cent piece.

Presidental Art Medals' (PAM) workhorse sculptor Ralph J. Menconi provided the artistry to a seven medal series commemorating Apollo Missions 11 to 17. Menconi's previous work for the space program included the models for the Project Mercury monument at Cape Canaveral. The 2.5 inch medals were offered in serially numbered .999 silver, limited to 10,000 pieces, and unnumbered bronze and were struck by the Medallic Art Company. Each medal was accompanied by a pamphlet with mission highlights, flight crew biographical sketches, and descriptions of the obverse and reverse of the medal. [Unless stated otherwise, the quotes in this series of posts are from the pamphlets, whose authors remain anonymous]

Apollo 11

Apollo 11 fulfilled the words of JFK who said on May 25, 1961, before a special joint session of Congress, "I believe this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before the decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to Earth. No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind, or more important for the long-range exploration of space; and none will be so difficult or more expensive to accomplish." Medal is dated 1969.
Apollo 12

This mission included retrieving components from the unmanned Surveyor III spacecraft which had landed on the moon on April 19, 1967. The reverse of the medal ". . .depicts several facets of the mission, including the moment of lift-off from Cape Kennedy. . .Behind the astronauts can be seen the lunar module Intrepid. The American flag appears on the horizon backed by a glimpse of the Earth." Flight trajectories, the length of stay on the Moon, plus the time and place of the lunar landing are included in the lettering. Medal is dated 1970.