The source of this heatshield is a larger block formerly encased in lucite and given to NASA workers and VIPs as a recognition of their work in the Apollo program

hese are real fine gold stamps

the Apollo 11 Capsule Communicator (Capcom) during mankind’s first lunar landing on July 20

We were glad to obtain a flown hollow bolt from the Vostok 1 capsule with provenance and certification by Oleg Ivanovsky (already in charge of the first Sputnik and Lunar flights - shown on the color photos along with Yuri Gagarin) who was made director of the first manned spaceflight by Sergey Korolev and became the last person to wish Gagarin a safe flight before he tightened one of these screws/bolts on the capsule's hatch

Fred Haise and Jack Swigert proved the effectiveness of the crewtraining along with ground personel

Apollo 13 Moon flown Kapton foil insulation material 8x10 presentation Scott Carpenter The source of this heatshieldApollo 13 flown Kapton foil insulation material Triangle swatch of FLOWN Apollo 13 Kapton foil from the Command Module "Odyssey" mounted on an 8x10 presentation certified on the backside. Apollo 13 almost turned into a disaster when an oxygen tank exploded and forced the crew to abort the lunar landing mission goal, fly around the moon and return safely back to earth. James Lovell, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert proved the effectiveness of the