Space Collectables

Boomerang · Post by **Boomerang** » Mon May 13, 2002 2:59 pm

I thought id start a topic for space collectables i collect alot of stuff i thought it might be kind of interesting to see what everyone here collects as far as space stuff.

Post by **Vincent** » Mon May 13, 2002 3:10 pm

I collect Space Camp memorabilia!

Boomerang · Post by **Boomerang** » Mon May 13, 2002 3:37 pm

Well space camp memorabillia is good. I also collect mission pathces, newspaper articles about shuttle missions (one dating back to Columbias forst flight in 1981), magazines with articles, astronaut autographs, Astronaut photos, books, posters, and just about any other space stuff you can think of.

orion8 · Post by **orion8** » Mon May 13, 2002 4:23 pm

well i used to collect star trek stuff but i only have a limited amount of real space memorabelia.

Boomerang · Post by **Boomerang** » Mon May 13, 2002 5:21 pm

Well i also collect Star Trek and some Star Wars memorabelia.

orion8 · Post by **orion8** » Fri Jun 07, 2002 3:22 pm

i only have a little bit of my star trek collection left. my favorite star trek item is my st:tng technical guide. i saved my allowance to buy it a long time ago!

Boomerang · Post by **Boomerang** » Fri Jun 07, 2002 5:23 pm

I have the TNG technical mannual as well as the tos technical mannual. And i have a tng Technical journal i found at 7-Eleven one day.

orion8 · Post by **orion8** » Sat Jun 08, 2002 10:46 am

i still have mine its in mint condition! i paid $16 for it. and at the time, that was alot of mony to me!

Space Nerd · Post by **Space Nerd** » Sat Jun 08, 2002 11:15 pm

I just started a topic like this. Sorry all i will read through the rest of the index next time

Anyways i collect alot of space camp stuff!!!! But i also collect models of anything to do with space and well i collect anything to do with space lets leave it at that lol.

Boomerang · Post by **Boomerang** » Sun Jun 09, 2002 1:22 pm

Its ok space nerd you can never have too many spcce collectibles.

ApolloXI · Post by **ApolloXI** » Fri Jan 31, 2003 9:05 pm

About six months ago I saw the three Life magzines on Apollo XI for only $10. I didn't have the change for them and I have not gone senice to see if they are still there. If there not there which they are problay not I feel like shooting my self in the foot. If I see them again I will have to find the chage and get them before they are gone.

Boomerang · Post by **Boomerang** » Fri Jan 31, 2003 9:10 pm

Well i hope you can get them i would love to have those. I do have a Life Magazine with information on Gemini 5. It has the info on the new fuel cells that were going to be used as well as on the crew. I find it particularly intresting because Gemini 5 is kind of the forgotten flight of the Gemini program. It had no space walks or dockings but it was the first long duration flight lasting 8 days.

Boomerang · Post by **Boomerang** » Sat Mar 01, 2003 5:36 pm

Well today i bought several new space collectables and got 2 more for free. I got a comemorative patch, coin, and pin from the STS-107 mission. Along with that i got Barbra Morgans astronaut photo and a friend of mine gave me a great Apollo 11 collectable. A friend of mine gave me an Apollo 11 comemorative button from 1969. It has the crew photo on the button with the names and dates with a ribbon hanging from it with Apollo 11 first men on the moon and the date.

stargazer0105 · Post by **stargazer0105** » Wed Mar 05, 2003 11:35 pm

Right now I'm collecting mission patches. I also have a fairly large collection of posters as well as books (especially by Homer Hickam!).

Boomerang · Post by **Boomerang** » Thu Mar 06, 2003 9:19 am

I colletct alot of mission patches i have been since the late 80's. I also have a pretty good collection of books by all diffrent authors on the subject of space exploration.

sts205cdr · Post by **sts205cdr** » Thu Mar 06, 2003 12:51 pm

I collect space museum patches, astronaut-type patches (e.g. Mach 25, Flight Crew Operations, T-38, NBL, etc.), and for books, those written by astronauts (have pretty much all of them), about astronauts, and about collecting space ephemera. I also have a HUGE collection of spacecraft models, more than I will ever live long enough to build!

I don't collect autographs, but I do like to collect signed, inscribed photos of me with an astronaut. Got a couple so far, Scott Kelly and Steve Robinson...

And, of course, I collect SC/SA stuff. My best piece so far is a pre-camp "Honorary Astronaut" Space & Rocket Center patch.

My favorite collection, though, is my collection of friends like all of you!

--John

Boomerang · Post by **Boomerang** » Thu Mar 06, 2003 1:37 pm

Well thats another one i collect is the astronaut photos and get them autographed when i can. I have quite a collection of the pictures themselves several of which are autographed. Most are prechallenger pictures although some of the people in them are still part of the space program. I even have a few Gemini and apollo pictures. My astronaut autographs include John Glenn, Dick Gordon, Fred Haise, Norm Thaggard, Charlie Walker, Frederick Greggory, and astronaut canidate Alvin Drew. Unfortunately i also have some pictures that i'll never beable to get signed like Dick Scobee and my apollo 12 crew photo which had Dick Gordons signature and i hope to get Alan Beans at some point as well but for obvious reasons wont beable to get Pete Conrads. I also have quite a few of the crew photos from diffent shuttle missions and a complete colection of crew photos on disk. I also recently got Barbra Morgans new astronaut portrait from the NASA Langley ERC as well as the crew photo for STS-114 which is the next shuttle flight scheduled but who knows when it will fly or if it will have the same crew onboard.

sts205cdr · Post by **sts205cdr** » Thu Mar 06, 2003 2:07 pm

Neat, Jason! Collecting astro autographs can be an expensive hobby depending on how far you want to go with it...

On my mantle at home I have a litho that I'll never get signed either, good ol' Sonny Carter. I treasure it nonetheless.

--John

Boomerang · Post by **Boomerang** » Thu Mar 06, 2003 9:11 pm

True it can be expensive but i got all of mine for free. Either by seeing astronauts at the VASC like Charlie Walker Frederick Greggory, and Norm Thaggard or had someone else get them for me like John Glenn and Fred Haise or my grandmother paid gor me to go to a breakfast with Dick Gordon where i got his.

sts205cdr · Post by **sts205cdr** » Thu Mar 06, 2003 9:27 pm

You know what I like to do? I like to send them birthday cards. I don't ask for anything, just for fun!

--John

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