Secret Stash of Moon Artifacts Found Hidden in Neil Armstrong's Closet...
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 Peter Mitchell  Send message Joined: 3 Apr 07 Posts: 21 Credit: 47,198 RAC: 0 
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Carol Armstrong, Neil Armstrong's widow, discovered her husband kept a stash of memorabilia in his closet from the Apollo 11 mission. The stash was recently given to the National Air and Space Museum for all posterity to enjoy for all time. http://sploid.gizmodo.com/secret-stash-of-moon-artifacts-found-hidden-in-neil-arm-1684449533 Reading the gallery of comments on article, I particularly liked Jesus Diaz's comment... It (the purse) is their property. Apollo astronauts got a lot of mementos from their trips. A recent law (signed by Obama) gave them full property titles over all of them. And rightly so. Also, this would have been discarded at the time. These things were supposed to be left in the LM, and the LM crashed on the Moon. Armstrong got them as souvenirs because they have space for them in the command module. Good for him. ID: 1638799 ·  |
Wiggo  Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 37390 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 
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+1 Cheers. ID: 1638813 · |
Bob DeWoody  Send message Joined: 9 May 10 Posts: 3387 Credit: 4,182,900 RAC: 10
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It is a tribute to his character that he kept them hid away and never tried to amass wealth by selling the artifacts. Bob DeWoody My motto: Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow as it may not be required. This no longer applies in light of current events. ID: 1638814 · |
Lynn   Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123
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+200 ID: 1639022 · |
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