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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Skyman, post: 2109941, member: 28299&quot;]Interesting.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thank you for the heads up Miedbe7!!!</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a pic of yours truly talking with Buzz Aldrin about a page of the log of Apollo 11 that I own.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m246/SkyMan58/SpaceRelated/ss2-Aldrin.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>From having talked to 11 of the 24 men who went to the Moon (including 6 of the 12 moonwalkers), they all talk about how it was really a huge team effort with somewhere on the order of 450,000 Americans working on the Apollo project.&nbsp; I&#039;m sure most of the people on these boards have heard the tale of, &quot;For want of a nail...&quot;.&nbsp; The Saturn V consisted of millions of parts, and it was necessary for the VAST majority of them to work exactly right or the missions never would have succeeded.&nbsp; The actual launching, support and landing/recovery included tens of thousands of people.&nbsp; Because of that, I think that the largest coin, the silver dollar should have one side dedicated to all the workers that worked on the Apollo project.&nbsp; It should show some mix of people such as engineers, technicians, shop workers, secretaries, test subjects, Navy swabbies etc. etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>I really like this image, and would like to see it on the other side of the silver dollar coin.&nbsp; It shows Apollo 11 at launch just as it goes supersonic, hence the shock wave.&nbsp; (This one has been signed by 4 of the most famous of the Flight Directors; Gene Kranz, Glynn Lunney, Gerry Griffin, Chris Kraft).</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m246/SkyMan58/SpaceRelated/ApolloFlightConA11.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I would think another image that absolutely must be on 1 of the 3 coins is EITHER the classic image of Buzz Aldrin on the Moon (where he is standing facing Armstrong) OR of Aldrin facing the American flag on the Moon.&nbsp; Given that the Space Race was ABSOLUTELY a battle in the Cold War I think the image of Aldrin facing the flag while on the Moon&#039;s surface is probably more appropriate.</p><p><br /></p><p>Finally I think it appropriate to have one coin side with the words, &quot;We Came in Peace for All Mankind&quot;, OR &quot;That&#039;s One Small Step for Man, One Giant Leap for Mankind&quot; on it.&nbsp; That gives the 3 coin group a little more feel for the historic nature of the mission that truly is a defining moment in history.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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