When buying with links to our articles, it may gain the future and partnership partners in the commission.
“Thank you for all your efforts for the corrections,” Nile Armstrong wrote in response to the unwanted NASA Steerm McCleland’s engineer proposals for the APOLLO 11 Mission. | Credit: Goldberg Coins & Collectibles/Collectspace.com
Neil Armstrong was appreciated, but as shown in his handwritten letter, it was too late. APollo 11 commander and his colleagues have already reached a design to represent the first moon landing.
Armstrong note and proposal to correct the task This is inspired by the auction at Goldberg Coins & Complles’ 27 February in Los Angeles. The art of logo and First MonokerIn response to the Clarak C. McCleloland collection, an archive of the astronaut signatures, the CSCale missile models and souvenirs that were transferred from the property of NASA engineer died in 2021.
“My father worked on hundreds of uninhabited American tasks in 34 years with NASA in Cape Canaferral Curry Lynn, one of McLelaland’s daughters, said in a statement issued by Goldberg, in Florida.
The auction includes the concepts of the Clark McLeland and ink for Upolo 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13 important spots. | Credit
Despite the assessment of other elements of the group for sale for more, MCCLELLAND’s attempts to help design Apollo The mission correction may be the most unique pieces of sale. Goldberg collected the majority of concepts in many, which they rated from 700 to $ 1,200.
Related to: Neil Armstrong: The first man on the moon
“McLelaland had some of the artist and presented the ideas of a slogan to the various task crews in Apollo and then the shuttle program,” the auction catalog Lot description 1017 Read. “McLeland presented most designs for Apollo 11 and Apollo 12More than ten each. “
There are also designs for APollo 8, which is the first task of sending humans around the moon, APollo 9 and Mid-FLIGHT Explosion. Apollo 13In addition to the slogans of the concept of Ructas from when McLeland worked at Martin (later Martin Marietta and today Lockheed Martin).
One of the MCCLELLAND graphics for the pencil for APollo 11 shows a circular patch with Spacecraft In the center that was marked before Mercury Gemini program slogans.
“This slogan shows recognition of every step [of the] The MCCLELLAND program was written to the APollo 11 crew in April 1969, three months before its launch, the National Space Program that led to APOLLO 11, “
Another concept of full colors depicts the American flag cultivated on it the moon In the midst of a gum -shaped logo with the task path from Earth to the moon as God’s plot. It seems that the same path is full of the surface of the moon as shown from the orbit and includes the Latin inscription, “Annuit Coeptis” (“Provides prefers our pledges”), as it was borrowed from the great seal of the United States.
As Goldberg was noticed, the designs were “McLelaland” Competition with many others To win the favor of the different teams, “none of Apollo’s ideas were accepted.
Armstrong wrote before writing his name (instead of adding his signature): “We felt as if we wanted to integrate our own correction ideas and completed our design. I thought you might like your deportation,” he wrote Armstrong before writing his name (Instead of adding his signature).
APOLLO 11, thanks to Neil Armstrong, Mike Collins, and Aldrin Clark McLeland for the ideas of correcting his mission. | Credit
Separately, Armstrong inserted one of his early pictures in NASA to McLeland, “with appreciation of your thoughts.”
Likewise, APOLLO 11 Michael CollinsWhich is attributed to it by going out with the concept of the eagle centered on Apollo 11 InsigniaHe extended his thanks for a signed image of MCCLELLAND “Help on the Apollo Xi Mission & Emblem”.
Both ARMSTRONG and Collins were signed with the third runway “with a lot of thanks” DrinIt is included in the sale in many (1154), Which is estimated to be sold from $ 1,200 to $ 1500.
APollo 11 astronauts collaborated with a different employee in NASA, photographer James Cooper, to develop Collins drawings into a final design.
Aldrin said on one of the broadcasts: “We were particularly pleased with the slogan of our journey, depicting the American eagle that brings the global symbol of peace from Earth, from the planet, to the moon, this symbol is the olive branch.” From space during the moon mission.
Related to: Moon: All you need to know about the Earth’s companion
The APOLLO 12 crew of Charles Conrad, Dick Gordon and Alan Ben signed the concept of Clark McLeland to correct them. | Credit
Related stories:
– The Trump administration removes the Apollo Moon rock from the White House office
– Apollo Program: How NASA sent astronauts to the moon
– The mission of the astronaut “Back to Earth” lands on the colored spacecraft
An additional one piece (1165400 dollars to $ 600) provides a look at another unsuccessful attempt by McLilland to design Apollo correction. APollo 12 concept design uses the same shape and some elements from one of the APOLLO 11 slogans that have been rejected, but it includes marine wings as a sign of “All Navy Crew”.
The limits of artwork for correction were signed by Apollo 12 astronauts, Charles Conrad, Alan between Waddi Gordon.
Although he did not see any of his designs called the moon, McLilland designed (and produced) a memorial correction on the fall of the falling STS-51L falling Space shuttle crew. Lot 1017 includes the original color mark and an embroidered example on the 1986 logo.
In total, Goldberg coins and holdings It contains more than 200 pieces with souvenirs from some of the forty space missions in which McLeland worked.
He follows Collectspace.com on Facebook And x in @Collectspace. Copyright 2025 COLECTSPACE.COM. All rights reserved.
