Moon Sgn Planting
Sample from moon-bound flag goes to auction
It was one small step for man. Now one small strip from the famed flag planted on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission is set to go to auction.
"This is the most-viewed flag in American history," said Michael Orenstein, whose west Los Angeles auction house is handling the sale that features a piece of fabric shorn from the banner as it was being prepared for the world's first lunar landing.
Other items on the block includes a Collier Trophy - the Academy Awards called aviation - which was awarded to the crew of the 1962 Mercury 7 mission and a three-ring notebook used by "Deke "Slayton as he was trained to be one of the first astronauts of the space program.
But Orenstein said gem sales is seven inches (18 centimeters) strip of red fabric and white auction of autographs and a photo with Neil Armstrong sent by Tom Moser, retired NASA engineer who was responsible for design the moon-related indicator in the weeks before Apollo 11 launched in 1969.
"It's right up there with Betsy Ross and the Star Spangled Banner," Orenstein said.
Nasa's original plans didn't involve planting a flag on the moon because of a United Nations treaty prohibiting nations from claiming celestial entities as their own, Moser said.
But after Congress slipped language into an appropriations bill authorising the flag's placement as a non-territorial marker, Moser was told to design a flag that could survive the trip to the moon and be planted on its surface upon arrival.
With the spacecraft's tiny interior too cramped even for a rolled-up flag, Moser devised a way to fix an aluminum tube with a thermal liner for the banner on the outside of the vessel, he said.
Nasa staff bought an American flag off the shelf of a nearby store and Moser had a hem sewn along its top, so a telescoping aluminum rod could be inserted to hold the banner out straight on the gravity-free moon. (On the moon, the rod didn't extend its full length; the consequent bunching is what makes the flag look like it's blowing in the wind.
Moon Sgn Planting - News
David Walinski will sign “Down in Doradilla.” Full Moon Ghost Tours. Old Louisville Chamber of Commerce and Visitor Center, 1217 S. Fourth St., Friday. Leave from the Visitor Center at 9 pm The 90-minute tour is based on author David Domine's book
Moser said he had Neil Armstrong sign a photo of the flag planted on the moon when the astronaut returned to Earth and he kept the picture and his rescued scrap of flag together in his Nasa office until he retired in 1990.
McCuin is currently the assistant coach/ recruiting co-ordinator at Clemson University where she has become the first female Bahamian coach to sign a Bahamian player, Jonquel Jones, to a top NCAA Division 1 programme. After two seasons at Miami-Dade
More than 11 million people in the Horn of Africa are confronting the worst drought in decades and need urgent assistance to stay alive, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday. – AP Lebanese police members take part in an anti-terrorism training
"But it is a sign of the national spirit for China to develop a space program and therefore it is of great significance for China." Some elements of China's program, notably the firing of a ground-based missile into one of its dead satellites four
Moon Sgn Planting - Bookshelf
Moon, The Life and Death of a Rock Legend
A portrait of Keith Moon, drummer of the rock & roll band the Who, celebrates his life twenty years after his death and profiles him as one of the greatest ...The Moon
Did you know that we on Earth always see the same side of the Moon? Or that the Moon's rocky, dusty surface is covered with craters?The Moon, resources, future development, and settlement
The book stresses that the envisioned "Planet Moon Project" will link the technological and cultural expertise of humanity to the virtually limitless resources ...The moon, her motions, aspect, scenery, and physical condition
THE MOON. CHAPTER I. THE MOON : DISTANCE, SIZE, AND MASS. Although the sun must undoubtedly have been the first celestial object whose movements or aspect ...Moon
Introduces readers to facts and myths about the Moon.Help Guide Directory
WSU Clark County Extension
A moon garden is simply a collection of plants that can be enjoyed during the ... Plant your moon garden in an area where you like to linger after sundown-perhaps ...
schoolgardens.org - Valley of the Moon Children's Community ...
Valley of the Moon Children's Home addresses the needs of Sonoma ... This SGN Cooking From the Garden grant (2008-2009) enabled the school to purchase ...
Painet: Licensed Rights Photos, stock photography and digital ...
sign half moon bay stewart island scenic new zealand sgn rain forest ulva landscapes coastal photos skies ... sunrises wildlife domestic animals livestock wild plants beautiful ...
F I L E T R O V E
potted plant. sgn. l.r. Herbert Meyer. oil/canvas, 12 by 10 in. gilt frame. Realized: $200 ... full moon above crashing waves. sgn. l.r. Geo. Howell Gay. watercolor, ...
schoolgardens.org - Healdsburg Elementary School: Healdsburg
Funds from this SGN Cooking From the Garden grant (2009-2010) supplement garden ... to-Table, they benefit -- from planting that first seed to sharing ...