NASA Special Collection Database

Category Book/Print/Published Item

Description 11" X 8" Weltraumfahrt Raketentechnik magazine cover cardboard mounted. Heft 4A 1966 edition. Slight fraying along the edges. Old Adhesive residue on back. Item is in good condition.

Barcode 31315006359975

Provenance Shipped from LBJ Space Center. Currently held in the Orland Park Public Library NASA Special Collection. Display piece only, not flown. Part of order 15-3.

Purpose Magazine cover preserved by NASA in celebration of Gemini 12. No other parts of the magazine exist in this collection. Item used for display purposes only. A representation of the item is located in the second floor display cases.

For more information:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/gemini/index.html

Category Book/Print/Published Item

Description 11" x 8" Weltraumfahrt Raketentechnik magazine cover mounted on cardboard. July/August 1969 edition. Heft 4 1969, 20. Jahrgang. creasing on upper, right corner. Item is in good condition.

Barcode 31315006360387

Provenance Shipped from LBJ Space Center. Currently held in the Orland Park Public Library NASA Special Collection. Display piece only, not flown. Item is in used condition. Part of order 15-3.

Purpose Magazine cover preserved by NASA in celebration of the first landing on the moon. No other parts of the magazine exist in this collection. Item used for display purposes only. A representation of the item is located in the second floor display cases.

For more information:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/apollo11.html#.VN509vnF_F0

Category Book/Print/Published Item

Description 11" X 8" Weltraumfahrt Raketentechnik magazine cover mounted on cardboard. January/February 1968. Heft 1 1968, 19. Jahrgang. Slight wear marks are located at the top, left of front. Back has some tearing to the layer of the mounting. Item is in good condition.

Barcode 31315006360270

Provenance Shipped from LBJ Space Center. Currently held in the Orland Park Public Library NASA Special Collection. Display piece only, not flown. Item is in used condition. Part of order 15-3.

Purpose Magazine cover preserved by NASA in anticipation of the first landing on the moon. No other parts of the magazine exist in this collection. Item used for display purposes only. A representation of the item is located in the second floor display cases.

For more information:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/apollo11.html#.VN509vnF_F0

Category Book/Print/Published Item

Description 11" x 8" World Oil magazine cover mounted on cardboard. August 1969 edition. Slight wear on front. Item is in good condition.

Barcode 31315006360361

Provenance Shipped from LBJ Space Center. Currently held in the Orland Park Public Library NASA Special Collection. Display piece only, not flown. Item is in used condition. Part of order 15-3.

Purpose Magazine cover preserved by NASA in celebration of the first landing on the moon. No other parts of the magazine exist in this collection. Item used for display purposes only. A representation of the item is located in the second floor display cases.

For more information:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/apollo11.html#.VN509vnF_F0

Category Book/Print/Published Item

Description 12" X 9" The Astrowives, magazine insert mounted on cardboard. Undated. Scuff marks are located on the front along with fraying on edges. tearing is located along the edges. Tapes marks are located on the back. Item is in average condition.

Barcode 31315006359876

Provenance Shipped from LBJ Space Center. Currently held in the Orland Park Public Library NASA Special Collection. Display piece only, not flown. Part of order 15-3.

Purpose Magazine cover preserved by NASA in celebration of the first landing on the moon. No other parts of the magazine exist in this collection. Item used for display purposes only. A representation of the item is located in the second floor display cases.

For more information:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/apollo11.html#.VN509vnF_F0

Category Book/Print/Published Item

Description 11.125" X 8.25" Newsweek. Front: (Top to bottom) August 11, 1969 50¢. Moonwalk In Color. Astronaut takes up most of the front page, the backdrop is the moon, as well as space. Slightly crinkled and tattered around edges. Bottom left corner has 2 two glue streak remnants. Back: (Top to bottom) "Rough taste rub you wrong?" "Come up to KOOL." "It's smooth." Cigarette box and lily pad centers the white backdrop. Crinkled upper left corner. Item has 88 pages. Item is in very good condition. Newsweek, 1969.

Barcode 31315007549970

Provenance Currently held in the Orland Park Library's NASA Special Collection. Display piece only. Anonymously donated.

Purpose For display purposes only.

Category Sewing Construction Tools

Description 13" X 10" pink plastic bag with five pouch patterns enclosed. Included: Cable Pouch Assys of the following SKU #'s, AF9J, AF9K, KZ4V, AF9L, AF9M. Item is in used condition. Items included are good condition.

Barcode 31315006310275

Provenance Shipped from LBJ Space Center. Currently held in the Orland Park Public Library NASA Special Collection. Not flown. Patterns were used to create various textile based equipment for the Shuttle Missions. Part of order 11-2.

Purpose Patterns or templates are used to make an array of soft products for the astronauts to use and wear. Patterns are made of manila card stock and have markings indicating where certain seams match. In 1965, master patterns were flown to Philadelphia to be photographed so that each pattern shape was preserved.

Information gathered from:
de Monchaux, Nicholas, Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo, Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2011. See Chapter 14, Handmade.

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/about/people/MCoggins_prt.htm

http://www.nasa.gov/offices/oct/early_stage_innovation/centennial_challenges/after_challenge/atc_final_frontier_prt.htm

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/releases/97/csblank.html

Category Sewing Construction Tools

Description 13" X 10" pink plastic bag with two knee desk pad patterns enclosed. Included: Knee Desk Pad of the following SKU #'s, AF23, AF24. Items are in very good condition.

Barcode 31315006310325

Provenance Shipped from LBJ Space Center. Currently held in the Orland Park Public Library NASA Special Collection. Not flown. Item is in used condition. Patterns were used to create various textile based equipment for the Shuttle Missions. Part of order 11-2.

Purpose Patterns or templates are used to make an array of soft products for the astronauts to use and wear. Patterns are made of manila card stock and have markings indicating where certain seams match. In 1965, master patterns were flown to Philadelphia to be photographed so that each pattern shape was preserved.

Information gathered from:
de Monchaux, Nicholas, Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo, Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2011. See Chapter 14, Handmade.

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/about/people/MCoggins_prt.htm

http://www.nasa.gov/offices/oct/early_stage_innovation/centennial_challenges/after_challenge/atc_final_frontier_prt.htm

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/releases/97/csblank.html