Chuck, I thought I was the only one that scraped ash off the bottom of Apollo 11. I worried for weeks that I would have got caught. I wish I had known then that you did it too and I would have just blamed you! Rodger Fry -----Original Message----- From: utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Chuck Hards Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2011 5:57 PM To: Utah Astronomy Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Astronomy memorabilia I have an actual piece of the Apollo 11 command module. I scraped a bit off of it when it was on display at the capitol building decades ago. OK, it's probably re-entry ash, but it still counts. A guard yelled at me and chased me out of the trailer. I met Leonov and all the Apollo-Soyuz crew. I gave him a model I made of the Apollo and Soyuz capsules linked together, that I had built. I have 8mm movie footage of their visit to SLC in the '70's. One day I'll transfer it to DVD. I have the newspaper clipping of the time we met. I sketched the mission patch and all 5 crew members signed it. :-) On 12/27/11, Joe Bauman <josephmbauman@yahoo.com> wrote:

Autographs and photos I took of some of the coolest astronauts including Alexi Leonov, the first man to walk in space. Photos I took in the '60s of missile launches. A chip of rusted iron from a V2 (if it's still around -- I haven't seen it in decades). I used to have chunks of solid rocket propellant from a Nike Zeus missile that exploded over our island, but eventually, many years after I returned to the States, I gave them to someone at Thiokol who disposed of them for me. Pictures and notes I took of the first moon-landing and another landing. A tape recording I made of one of the Rangers landing on the moon I think in 1965. -- jb

________________________________ From: Chuck Hards <chuck.hards@gmail.com> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2011 2:45 PM Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Astronomy memorabilia

What astro memorabilia do you have? What's the oddest thing in your collection?

I have several, probably the most off-the-wall is Tom Cave's breakfast-cereal box. No lie.

I also have Harlow Shapley's autograph.

What's tucked-away on your shelf or closet?

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On 12/27/11, M Wilson <astro_outwest@yahoo.com> wrote:

What is "Tom Cave's breakfast-cereal box"?

Some years ago, before Astro-mart, before eBay, before the internet actually, there was this little classified shopper magazine called "The Starry Messenger", devoted to astro gear. I bought some now long-forgotten item from Tom Cave (founder and owner of Cave Optical Company) and he sent it to me in a cereal box. I still have the box, with his return-address label on it, and "FRAS" hand-printed after his name. Tom passed away some years ago, but is still remembered by old-timers. In addition to telescope manufacturing, he was a keen planetary observer and mover and shaker in the amateur community in the Los Angeles area for decades. I believe many other SLASers met him and spoke with him over the years.