Topic: Steve Jurvetson's space artifacts (video tours)
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 52440 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 07-10-2016 11:51 AM
The NASA Frontier Development Lab toured Steve Jurvetson's (cS: Jurvetson) space artifact and meteorite collection in 2016 and filmed it in 360 degrees.
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 52440 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 04-05-2021 01:59 PM
Peter Thoeny and his son share their March 29, 2021 tour of Steve Jurvetson's space museum at Future Ventures:
David Carey Member
Posts: 1027 From: Registered: Mar 2009
posted 04-05-2021 03:11 PM
Wow. That was a treat.
Thank you Steve, Peter, and Alexis.
Ken Havekotte Member
Posts: 3817 From: Merritt Island, Florida, Brevard Registered: Mar 2001
posted 04-05-2021 03:19 PM
Astonishing!!! What more can be said.
It's an elite aerospace museum within other museums with so many incredible artifacts and memorabilia, most one-of-a-kind, of man's progress in space travel. I love the Viking Mars hardware pieces, Steve, and do you ever get over to the Florida Space Coast in viewing a launch here?
Tom Dahl Member
Posts: 40 From: MA, USA Registered: Jan 2012
posted 04-05-2021 05:41 PM
An incredible collection indeed!
I had seen a Flickr album of 300 or so images which revealed what seemed to be a huge collection, but this video shows that it is even larger than I had thought. So large that artifacts (including a lunar surface-flown item) are even displayed in the restrooms!
The Viking lander biology instrument (S/N 104, the third Flight-ready unit produced, i.e., the only spare), the Gas Chromatograph Mass Spectrometer, the orbiter rocket engine, and an orbiter high-gain antenna mount (not shown in this video) are amazing to me as a Viking researcher.
Tallpaul Member
Posts: 220 From: Rocky Point, NY, USA Registered: Feb 2012
posted 04-05-2021 09:22 PM
Incredible. The meteorites really blew me away. Thanks to all for sharing and to Mr. Jurvetson for assuming the role of curator of an amazing collection of "Relics of the Space Age."
Rick Mulheirn Member
Posts: 4574 From: England Registered: Feb 2001
posted 04-06-2021 05:42 AM
I can consider myself well and truly entertained. Thanks Steve for sharing what must be the most impressive private collection of historic flown artefacts.
I don't believe in reincarnation but if there is any truth in it, when my time comes, I want to be reincarnated as Steve Jurvetson!
Charlie16 Member
Posts: 545 From: Italy Registered: Dec 2010
posted 04-06-2021 11:00 AM
The most impressive and curated private collection. Steve has captured the essence of our passion for recovering the history.
Congratulations and thank you for sharing.
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 52440 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 05-26-2024 03:06 PM
Scott Manley recently visited Steve and toured his collection. Part one of his tour...
I got to Visit Steve Jurvetson's private museum of spaceflight hardware. He's a Silicon Valley investor whose managed to assemble one of the best space museums with items from Goddard through Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Shuttle and even parts of SpaceX launch vehicles. He has managed to acquire things that flew to the moon on every Apollo mission.
This was just 2 hours of us looking at things and Steve enthusiastically explaining the history of things while I tried to capture the tour on my phone.
music_space Member
Posts: 1194 From: Canada Registered: Jul 2001
posted 05-27-2024 08:55 PM
Amazing!
Scott Manley is a great youtuber, by the way. He knows his stuff and he gets the proper images to illustrate, many of which I didn't know. His scripts and delivery are refreshingly informal, and passionate.
He's interested in the "new" stuff and also the classics of astronautics history. Like Tim "Everyday Astronaut" Dodd, he has put out whole series of videos about deserving topics, such as the complete history of rocket families.
He's an advanced player of the Kerbal Space flight and design simulator, for those who dig such video games.
------------------ Francois Guay East-Canadian astronautical history fan and collector of literature, notebooks, equipment and memories.
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 52440 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 05-28-2024 01:21 PM
Part two of Scott Manley's tour:
Continuing the tour of Steve Jurvetson's collection, starting out with a panel ejected from SpaceX's first flight of crew dragon with humans on board. This covered the parachute during launch and reentry, and it was discarded during descent so the parachutes could deploy. It also has an interesting story regarding the legality of recovering and salvaging rocket parts, which technically remain the property of the builder even if they as lost far outside territorial waters.
And that's just the start, there are lots of panels from the US and Soviet space programs,
posted 07-10-2016 11:51 AM
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