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<p>[QUOTE="Skyman, post: 8223415, member: 28299"]Yes they are. </p><p><br /></p><p>FWIW, I also have some Apollo 12 items. Here's yours truly, about 10 years ago, with Dick Gordon, the Command Module Pilot of Apollo 12. I got to know him fairly well over the years (we volunteered at the same place) and was able to purchase some items directly from him. He is holding the first Playmate picture to fly to the Moon (now in my collection). FWIW, the Playmate was DeDe Lind, and the picture was the November page of the 1969 Playboy desk calendar. The Apollo 12 mission launched and landed in November 1969. The picture was glued to a cardboard backing, and was smuggled aboard the spacecraft before the mission, in a compartment that (as per mission timeline) would only be opened by Dick while orbiting the Moon alone. Given the family nature of this coin website I am showing a picture that "flares" the image of the Playmate.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1444638[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=81991]@alurid[/USER] Your are correct, that is Grissom's signature. In order the signatures are:</p><p><br /></p><p>John Glenn, Bill Lyons (business manager for Bill Dana), Wally Schirra, Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Leroy "Gordo" Cooper, Deke Slayton, John Young, Charles Conrad and Al Worden.</p><p><br /></p><p>Given the assorted signing utensils, my best guess is that this short snorter was signed at 4 different bars and/or 4 different times... Glenn and Lyons, Schirra/Grissom/Cooper/Slayton, Young and Conrad, and Worden. I SUSPECT that Glenn and the rest of the "Mercury" guys all signed relatively near each other time wise. Young and Conrad, being members of the "New Nine", arrived about 3 1/2 years after the Mercury 7. Al Worden was part of the "Original 19", who were selected in April 1966, so quite a bit later.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Skyman, post: 8223415, member: 28299"]Yes they are. FWIW, I also have some Apollo 12 items. Here's yours truly, about 10 years ago, with Dick Gordon, the Command Module Pilot of Apollo 12. I got to know him fairly well over the years (we volunteered at the same place) and was able to purchase some items directly from him. He is holding the first Playmate picture to fly to the Moon (now in my collection). FWIW, the Playmate was DeDe Lind, and the picture was the November page of the 1969 Playboy desk calendar. The Apollo 12 mission launched and landed in November 1969. The picture was glued to a cardboard backing, and was smuggled aboard the spacecraft before the mission, in a compartment that (as per mission timeline) would only be opened by Dick while orbiting the Moon alone. Given the family nature of this coin website I am showing a picture that "flares" the image of the Playmate. [ATTACH=full]1444638[/ATTACH] [USER=81991]@alurid[/USER] Your are correct, that is Grissom's signature. In order the signatures are: John Glenn, Bill Lyons (business manager for Bill Dana), Wally Schirra, Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Leroy "Gordo" Cooper, Deke Slayton, John Young, Charles Conrad and Al Worden. Given the assorted signing utensils, my best guess is that this short snorter was signed at 4 different bars and/or 4 different times... Glenn and Lyons, Schirra/Grissom/Cooper/Slayton, Young and Conrad, and Worden. I SUSPECT that Glenn and the rest of the "Mercury" guys all signed relatively near each other time wise. Young and Conrad, being members of the "New Nine", arrived about 3 1/2 years after the Mercury 7. Al Worden was part of the "Original 19", who were selected in April 1966, so quite a bit later.[/QUOTE]
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