Neil Armstrong’s Bag containing Long-Lost Apollo 11 Artifacts discovered

[Omaha Steve]

Source: NHV

Written by Jeanne Rife

Forty five years after Neil Armstrong created history by becoming the first human being to step on the moon's surface, his bag of souvenirs belonging to the first lunar landing has become a national spotlight.

Among the items discovered by Armstrong's widow, Carol, while cleaning out their suburban Cincinnati home in August 2012 is a 16mm movie camera that recorded the moment that Armstrong took his first step on the moon.

The items were aboard Apollo 11's lunar module, Eagle, which became popular for being the first manned spacecraft to land on the moon.

Carol got in touch with National Air and Space Museum to let them know about her discovery in June 2013, said the museum's Allan Needell.

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Read more: http://nhv.us/content/15021642-neil-armstrong-s-bag-containing-long-lost-apollo-11-artifacts

[postulater]

1. Lost? Really? Looks more like employee theft to me. nt

[NBachers]

3. Looks like a real shitty comment to me.

[postulater]

11. Maybe. But they weren't lost. Someone put them there. And it was probably Neil Armstrong.

Maybe a gift from NASA, I don't know. But they weren't lost, they were right where he put them.

Yes it is nice that they are going to be available for historical purposes. Thanks to Ms. Armstrong for not selling them like a home run ball or a Nobel Medal.

[MicaelS]

17. They would have ended up in a junk pile ..

On the Lunar Surface as part of the crashed Ascent Stage of Eagle LEM.

http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2015/0210/Forgotten-lunar-landing-artifacts-found-by-Neil-Armstrong-s-widow

To be clear, the bag was not something Armstrong snuck home from the moon. After returning to lunar orbit, the bag and its contents were moved from Eagle to the command module "Columbia" before the lander was directed to crash back to the surface. Had the purse remained aboard, it too would have been destroyed.

Armstrong mentioned the purse to command module pilot Michael Collins as it was being transferred from one craft to the other.

"That [is] just a bunch of trash that we want to take back — LM parts, odds and ends," Armstrong said.

Later, Collins called Mission Control to note where the bag was being placed for the trip home and about how much it weighed.

I imagine Armstrong wanted some personal mementos that meant something to him. More power to him.

[louis-t]

13. Don't mind postulator, he/she still thinks it was all done on a

sound stage in New Mexico.

[postulater]

15. Area 52?

[louis-t]

16. Correct!

[FLPanhandle]

5. Considering how NASA lost/misplaced/deleted so much from that era...

I'm glad he kept the artifacts safe. Who knows if they would exist now to be in a museum if he hadn't.

[librechik]

19. exactly--

and who knows which if any will survive "vetting" for display?

[Botany]

6. Please

[Victor_c3]

7. That's what it looks like to me too. However, I think I'm going to keep that comment to myself

Oops. Too late! I just posted it.

[postulater]

9. Well, to give him the benefit of my doubt, it could have been a gift from NASA

or he could have just borrowed the stuff for a home remodelling project.

Or someone else might have put it there.

[longship]

8. I postulate that your post is not a good one. nt

[DavidDvorkin]

14. That's exactly my response to this story.

[BlueJazz]

2. I'm glad he brought them back. Nice addition to the national Air and Space Museum.

As far as him "not following orders"...I give the "First man to walk on the Moon" a little slack.

[Buenaventura]

4. NASA has a baggage carousel?

Oh, never mind … it was in the junk drawer.

[jtuck004]

10. This is what happens when tourists ask someone to take a picture with their camera.

A person who would sacrifice everything to push -our- boundaries, doing the kind of work that can only be done to that scale with the investment of nations and their people.

Glad you could pull the camera out and hold it a few times, remember perhaps. Thank you for your service.





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You know who you are. Thank you for the heart.

[Sunlei]

12. cool, he saved "his bag of souvenirs" !

Even up to the last most recent shuttle launches, NASA still gives a 'bag of souvenirs'. It includes patches, buttons, photos, a logo bag.

[Taitertots]

18. You know you lived an amazing life when the stuff you forgot about...

Ends up in a museum.

[FLPanhandle]

20. Some pics