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Posted 12/19/2018 12:20 pm
Can't remember where I got these (I've got two). Perhaps from my late mother-in-law who was an illustrator for NASA.
From Robert Pearlman at collectspace.com:
Apollo 11 medallion issued by the NASA Manned Flight Awareness Office in 1970. The Barco Mint of New Orleans struck 200,000 medallions for the space agency, made in part from a heat shield bolt removed from the command module Columbia and a pulley clamp returned to Earth from the lunar module Eagle.
The medallions were issued to NASA employees and contractors in several formats. Some were accompanied by certificates, others were mounted in acrylic stands.
The medallion was the second such "flown-metal melt" issued by the Manned Flight Awareness Office, following one for Apollo 8. Others were later distributed for Skylab, Apollo-Soyuz, the Approach and Landing Test Program, STS-1, STS-3 and NASA's 25th anniversary (with flown metal from STS-5).
From Robert Pearlman at collectspace.com:
Apollo 11 medallion issued by the NASA Manned Flight Awareness Office in 1970. The Barco Mint of New Orleans struck 200,000 medallions for the space agency, made in part from a heat shield bolt removed from the command module Columbia and a pulley clamp returned to Earth from the lunar module Eagle.
The medallions were issued to NASA employees and contractors in several formats. Some were accompanied by certificates, others were mounted in acrylic stands.
The medallion was the second such "flown-metal melt" issued by the Manned Flight Awareness Office, following one for Apollo 8. Others were later distributed for Skylab, Apollo-Soyuz, the Approach and Landing Test Program, STS-1, STS-3 and NASA's 25th anniversary (with flown metal from STS-5).
Edited by TreeMonkey
12/19/2018 12:28 pm
12/19/2018 12:28 pm
