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Apollo 12

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Autographs Start Price:NA Estimated At:8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD
Apollo 12

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Auction Date:2013 Nov 21 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Flown Apollo 12 Robbins Medal, approximately 1.25? diameter, with a raised design on the face of the Apollo 12 mission insignia. The reverse of the sterling silver medal is engraved with the November 14, 1969, launch date; November 19, 1969, moon landing date; and November 24, 1969, return date. This medal is serial numbered “147.” Condition is mint state. Accompanied by a letter of authenticity from Gordon Cooper, who was presented with this medal by Pete Conrad after he returned from the moon, recounting how he lost out on the command of Apollo 13. Letter reads, in part: “This medallion was carried on the Apollo XII flight by my old friend Charles ‘Pete’ Conrad during November 14 to 24, 1969. He was the commander of this mission which made the second lunar landing of the Apollo Program at the Ocean of Storms…Pete and I flew together back in 1965 on Gemini 5…This medallion has serial number 147 engraved on the back side and is one of the Robbins series of medallions made for flight crews during the Apollo Program…Normal Apollo crew rotations from back-up crew to prime flight crew was as follows—the back-up crew would be named the prime crew of the third mission down the line in the Apollo flight program…Based on this rotation, I should have been selected as commander of Apollo 13. However, office ‘politics’ in the Astronaut Corps, the return to flight status of Alan Shepard after the correction of an inner ear disorder, and the view points of certain NASA managers allowed for the selection of Shepard ahead of me for command of Apollo 13. Shepard fell behind in training and was allowed to switch to commander of Apollo 14, moving Jim Lovell and his crew up to Apollo 13. Of course, if I had received command of Apollo 13, it would have been my ‘lost moon.’ I would not have been able to walk on the moon because of the flaw in the oxygen tank which caused the explosion…If I had been selected for command on Apollo 13, there would not have been a falling behind in training because of my extensive work experience during back-up on Apollo 10. Shepard was very fortunate to be pulled from command of ‘13’ and placed on ‘14.’ As it turned out, he was the only one of us Mercury guys to actually fly to and land on the moon.”
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