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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;collectspace, post: 119565, member: 5196&quot;]I realize this is an old thread, but for reference, the information presented by it is incorrect. For the medallion pictured by the first post (commonly referred to as the NASA Manned Flight Awareness Apollo 11 medallion), the source of the flown metal was not a recovered booster. The stages (sections) of the Saturn V rocket that launched Apollo 11 were left to sink into the ocean.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Rather, the metal from Eagle was from a clamp used in the pulley system that loaded rocks from the Moon&#039;s surface into the lunar module, with the remainder of the system still remaining at Tranquility Base, the lunar landing site.&nbsp; The metal from Columbia was from a bolt used to fasten the heat shield which protected the module during reentry into the Earth&#039;s atmosphere. </p><p><br /></p><p>There were 200,000 of these medallions minted for NASA by the Barco Mint of New Orleans.</p><p><br /></p><p>-- </p><p>Robert Pearlman, Editor</p><p>collectSPACE - The Source for Space History &amp; Artifacts </p><p><a href="http://www.collectspace.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.collectspace.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.collectspace.com/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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