Hi Tom and List, Oh, that is a shame. Those "vintage" ones are the best.
Here is an Apollo 8 Lovell from my collection (sorry for the bad photo): http://www.branchmeteorites.com/misc/lovell.jpg -Walter --------------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Randall - KB2SMS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Meteorite list - Post" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 8:11 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] harrison "jack"schmidt > > Hi Walter and list, > I met and got Lovell's autograph when I was 14, he was grand marshall > at an opening of city hall in Poughkeepsie,N.Y. > > Man was it great! He even broguht a moon rock encases in a half dome > thing. > > Here's the sad part, I ended up putting the autograph in an Apollo > pamphlet I got from KSC and gave the extra copies away to someone and > the autograph was in one of the copies. I used to send to KSC all the > time for Apollo stuff and they'd send back big envelopes full of 8x10's, > Apollo literature,etc. I had TONS of the stuff. > > I didn't wash my hand for weeks! > > Regards and happy holidays to all. > > Tom Randall > > > On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 19:50, Walter Branch wrote: > > Hello Steve and List, > > > > Harrison "Jack" Schmitt was the Lunar Module Pilot for Apollo 17. He was > > actually the only trained scientist (geologist) to land on the moon and had > > to learn to fly to become an astronaut. Schmitt bumped Joe Allen, who was > > the original Apollo 17 LMP, when the scientific community complained that no > > trained scientest had landed on and studied the moon. Allen later flew the > > space shuttle. > > > > Here is perhaps the most famous picture from the Apollo 17 flight: > > > > http://www.branchmeteorites.com/misc/schmitt.jpg > > > > Apollo 17 was our last manned flight to the moon and brought back 243 lbs of > > moon rocks. > > > > -Walter > > > > ______________________________________________ > Meteorite-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list