Special guests who were invited to watch the launches of the Apollo program from a special viewing area were issued passes. These lucky few were entitled to be at a spot that was as close to the launch as one could safely get. I have a launch viewing pass from each Apollo mission in my collection.
On the other missions, the passes were rather ordinary. But with the launch of Apollo 11 on July 16, 1969, the first lunar landing attempt, NASA dressed up the launch viewing passes and for the first time wrote on the pass: "After launch, it may be kept as a souvenir of the mission."
I have two Apollo 11 Launch Passes (# in 300's) & one from Apollo 6; slides I took at the Apollo 11 Launch (former President Johnson, Lady Bird & Johnny Carson); a Grumman Apollo Command Module Model; Mission Documentation; patches (NASA Shop purchases); sheets of U.S. "Space" stamps; photographs; lithographs; Apollo mug; among the things I collected from my father, Maynard E. White, Direct of Management, Manned Space Flight (Google). Where is the best place to put these items up for sale for the absolute maximum revenue result?
Posted by: Richard White | April 21, 2011 at 04:07 PM