Auction of Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins's star chart and other space artifacts from his collection

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This is a tangible link between centuries of folks going down to the sea in ships and humankind’s first steps off the planet.

Pretty fucking cool!

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Unique artifacts, going to be locked away in some billionaire’s climate controlled bunker for the rest of time.

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4jg

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Note the handwritten star “Dnoces”, in the upper part of Ursa major. This is one of three stars that the Apollo 1 astronauts had playfully inserted into the official NASA star charts - Navi, Dnoces, and Regor (spell them backwards for Grissom and Chaffee’s first names, and Ed White II’s.) I can’t remember where the other two stars are, but I remember seeing them on official NASA charts displayed at the Smithsonian. Nice to see that they were still being used up to Apollo 11.

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