Space collectables

[63cagedfalcon]

I recently aquired a grouping of NASA items, from Project Mercury through the Shuttle program. These are from the William E Platt estate, notable positions, asst flight director for Apollo 4,6,8,11 & 12, team lead on the Columbia incident.

I have more then I can post & I am still looking for more.

Two of many manuals
Apollo 8 cocktail napkin

Apollo 11 items of Bill's.
Apologies for sideways pics.

Apollo 12 flown flag

1 of 4 known Skylab 2 heat shield plug.

 

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[Terry Soloman]

Very cool collection!

 

[Kray Gelder]

A terrific collection of mementos. Congrats on that.

 

[A2coins]

Amazing collection

 

[SnakemanBill]

My father worked at te kennedy Space Center and was one of the original members of the astronaut rescue team.

He wrote a book about that period and still has a lot of memorabilia from his time there.

https://www.firerescue1.com/fire-ca...pollo-astronaut-rescue-team-PFy7sBJn7FkNr25N/

 

[GoldieLocks]

oh my goodness....awesome!

 

[Molewacker]

Oh yea, nice cross section of goodies, ephemera and hardware!

My fave in my minor collection silly as it may seem, are the pieces of roadway the crawler runs over. I Loved watching the crawler as a kid, and was a highlight of my visit to KSC.

 

[63cagedfalcon]

Oh yea, nice cross section of goodies, ephemera and hardware!

My fave in my minor collection silly as it may seem, are the pieces of roadway the crawler runs over. I Loved watching the crawler as a kid, and was a highlight of my visit to KSC.

Not silly at all!

 

[yangonoverture]

Wow cool collectibles. What was the last photo?

 

[63cagedfalcon]

Wow cool collectibles. What was the last photo?

It's part of the heat shield that protects the command module from heat of reentry. This part was removed with a hole saw to access the actual bolts so that the shield could be removed for inspection.