Five primary school composition notebooks are the unassuming vessels for the important debut novel of one of the most legendary sci-fi writers of all time: Sir Arthur C. Clarke’s Prelude To Space. These influential blocks of neatly ruled paper, filled with 51,500 words in Clarke’s clear, cursive script, will be part of Heritage Auction Galleries’ […]
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Arthur C. Clarke Space Manuscript for Auction
(Yonkers, N.Y.) – Over 500 lots of historical items in a dazzling array of categories will be sold at auction by Cohasco, Inc., on February 25. The mail, phone, fax and e-mail auction will also go online at the firm’s website, www.cohascodpc.com starting the last week of January. The auction marks the latest in Cohasco’s […]
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SHOPitLA is offering for sale a titanium fuel tank designed for spaceflight on the Saturn V missile. It is the attitude control fuel tank that provided fuel for the Saturn V rocket that sent Apollo to the moon.
In 1970, NASA announced that it was canceling Apollo missions 18-20 and that Apollo 17 would be the last manned mission to the moon for the foreseeable future.
The remnants of the canceled missiles intended for the moon were declared scrap surplus and sold off. An astute naval captain saw the opportunity and purchased all of the Titanium for 10 cents a pound.
Today, many of these pieces adorn the gardens of the Captain’s Southern California home. This magnificent tank is the largest and most audacious of them all.
Once a member of the Mercury Astronaut Program himself, the Naval Captain was roommates with astronaut Gus Grissom and briefly with Apollo 13’s Jim Lovell. He saw the heroism and struggles of the NASA Space Program first hand and has kept these pieces as reminders for the last 40 years.
Vist www.shopitla.com for more information.
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Saturn Apollo Rocket Fuel Tank on eBay
Rapp auction house will hold a stamp auction in Wil, Switzerland, from 24 to 27 November. For the first time, bidders will have the opportunity to join in the bidding live on the internet. Sales totalling around 15 million Swiss francs are anticipated.
Philatelists as well as analysts, financial and economic experts will meet at the […]
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Stamp Auction in Switzerland
On Oct. 7, at its downtown Dallas headquarter, Heritage held its Space Exploration Auction for a rapt in-person audience and an engaged buying public bidding over the phone and via Heritage Live!, the gallery’s online, real time bidding service. When the rocket fuel had cleared the showroom and the Ethernet lines the total sales of […]
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Record Prices at Heritage Space Exploration Auction
