[meteorite-list] NASA sues Moonwalker Astronaut

[MexicoDoug]

Edgar Mitchell is the only crew member of Apollo 14 still alive and was 
the pilot of the Lunar Module.

Apollo 14
Commander - Alan (Al) B. Shepard, Jr.;
Command Module Pilot - Stuart (Stu) A. Roosa;
Lunar Module Pilot - Edgar (Ed) D. Mitchell)

Speaking of the Apollo 14 Moon landing:

It was standard practice around NASA to allow astronauts to have all 
kinds of keepsakes after their heroic and trailblazing deeds in space.

In 2009, Bonham's unsuccessfully auctioned for Fred Haise (Apollo 13) 
the Apollo 14 dust brush that was used to remove all the bothersome 
Lunar dust from all the camera lenses they took to the Lunar surface, 
and this brush proved a valuble work item. Someone may know where this 
brush is today. It was one of the consolation gifts to Haise 
(dedicated: To Fred, from Al, Stu and Ed). Fred Haise would have been 
the sixth man to walk on the Moon but lost that title to Edgar Mitchell 
since Apollo 13 achieved Lunar orbit but aborted the landing.

 From the Bonham's 2009 catalog (which has all kinds of navigational 
charts and flags taken to the Moon and returned - an appropriate July 4 
comment in itself):
"We also offer a lunar surface dust brush directly from the collection 
of Apollo 13 Astronaut Fred Haise and prized for its time spent on the 
moon. It was used during two Extra Vehicular Activities (EVAs), or 
Moonwalks, of the Apollo 14 mission to remove moon dust from the lenses 
of film and TV cameras. Also expected to inspire fierce bidding is a 
flight vehicle attitude hand controller assembly unit that was part of 
the Apollo 15 Lunar Module. Considering that Lunar Modules were never 
designed to return to earth, this lot’s appearance on the market is 
extraordinarily"

Best wishes
Doug


-----Original Message-----
From: GeoZay at aol.com
To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
Sent: Mon, Jul 4, 2011 8:51 am
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] NASA sues Moonwalker Astronaut


>>They're at it again ... rewriting history and after 40 years of 
NASA's
permission to take mementos from the Apollo era - now suing the sixth
man to walk on the moon, Edgar Mitchell of Apollo 11, for trying to
sell the camera they allowed him to have ... <<

Edgar Mitchell wasn't on Apollo 11....Michael Collins, Buzz Aldrin and
Neil Armstrong were.
GeoZay

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