A Fragment of Apollo 11; Flown Hatch Plug

by Nasa

$8,500 · Offered by Biblioctopus

First edition

Kennedy Space Center: NASA, 1969. First Edition. Composition hatch plug, flown to the Moon and back on Apollo 11, the first manned lunar landing. 23mm long x 12.5mm diameter. An actual piece of the Columbia command module, removed after the spacecraft was recovered aboard USS Hornet in the South Pacific on July 24, 1969. As Dick Williamson writes, This plug is one of several that are removed from certain areas of the

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