Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/05/08/auction-apollo-11-lunar-landi.html
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Private collections are not always a bad thing, for example a lot of movie props and memorabilia weren’t considered important enough to keep so it was up to private individuals to do a lot of the work there.
That said in this particular case i do think that the manual is important enough that it should be in a museum. It’s not just that it was in space but because of its particular historic significance.
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Will they accept a third party, post dated, out of state check?
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Imagine how much Aldrin could have made if he sold his original copy of the script they used to fake the landing on that soundstage.
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Obligs:
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Well a museum could buy it. Or have the buyer donate for display. That is how the majority of items end up in museums.
properly voiced and emoted:
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Except in this case, “Peter Frampton” is the United States of America (cue swelling patriotic music), which is decidedly not dead.
…maybe I should reconsider that last statement. (cue deep existential dread for liberal democracy)
Also, your clip is deeply unrealistic. Such a guitar would easily start at 10 times that price! It’s almost as though it’s a light-hearted parody or some such.
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Ok, I’ll bid on it. But the proceeds must go to SPACE FORCE.
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In the back pages are:
Above all else, DO NOT MENTION THE MOON MONSTERS in public
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Edited for topicality.
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If you don’t have $9m at hand you can download a copy of the manual here: http://web.mit.edu/digitalapollo/Documents/Chapter8/lemhandbook.pdf
Also, I really don’t get the nutty prices paid for simple memorabilia. Any other copy of the manual contains exactly the same information as the one “that has been in space”. Believe it or not, the power of the original owner is not going to be transferred to you if you own a historical item. You’d have to eat his brains for that. /s
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Careful, Aldrin has punched people for making statements like that.
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This seems of little practical use.
The article states that contemporaneous notes were taken in said notebook, which would presumably not be located in “any other copy of the manual.”
Pretty sure Buzz was thinking “Must… control…fist…of…death!”
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The Mighty BA does not suffer fools lightly!
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Thank you, ax11. The manual is incredibly cool.
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