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Topic: Space exploration theme license plates
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Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 44213 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 12-03-2003 06:53 AM
A new license plate from the Texas Department of Transportation: The Texas Department of Transportation shall deposit $22 of the $30 application fee to the credit of the general revenue fund and may be used only by the Texas Aerospace Commission or its successor agency in making grants to benefit the Aviation and Space Foundation of Texas for the purposes of furthering aviation and space activities in Texas and providing Columbia Crew memorial scholarships to students. |
Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 44213 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 12-16-2004 04:33 PM
According to The Huntsville Times: Officials at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center trying to save the Saturn V rocket are on a mission: They need about 700 people to put down $50 each and sign up for the special Saturn V license plate before Jan. 31.The state requires that 1,000 people preorder the special tags before it will begin production. If 1,000 aren't ordered by the deadline, then... "It's just not an option for us," Space Center spokesman Al Whitaker said. "I mean, Huntsville and Madison County put men on the moon. How embarrassing if we can't put a tag on a car." ![](http://www.collectspace.com/review/alabama_tag_save_saturnv01.jpg) |
DavidH Member Posts: 1225 From: Huntsville, AL, USA Registered: Jun 2003
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posted 01-13-2005 11:43 AM
As of Monday, 280 more commitments to purchase were needed for the "Save The Saturn" license plate to become a reality.For each tag, $41.25 will go to the Space Center Foundation's Save the Saturn campaign to help pay the $5 million initial cost of restoring and showcasing one of the world's only remaining, complete Saturn V rockets. I just want to go on the record as having filed my commitment to purchase the tag, and strongly encourage any other cS readers in Alabama to do the same! |
Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 44213 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 02-01-2005 12:15 PM
The Huntsville Times: Alabama soon will launch a new license plate.As of Monday afternoon, more than 1,450 applications for the Saturn V "First to the Moon" tag had been turned in, said Ralph Petroff, head of the tag effort for the U.S. Space & Rocket Center Foundation's Saturn V Restoration executive committee. That's at least 450 more than needed by Monday's deadline to get the state to begin producing the fund-raising license plate honoring the Saturn V - the rocket designed and developed in Huntsville that carried the astronauts on every moon mission. |
Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 44213 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 08-19-2005 10:54 AM
The Huntsville Times: There's one thing you can say today about those much-discussed, much-delayed, colorful, fundraising Saturn V license plates that you could never say before:They're here. Whether you've already ordered one or not, you can go to any county license office and get a rocket plate on your car today. You'll be helping efforts to refurbish and display the historic Saturn V rocket that's been weathering away for decades at the back of the U.S. Space & Rocket Center, and Ralph Petroff believes you'll be helping refurbish Alabama's image, too. |
Carrie Member Posts: 225 From: Syracuse, New York, USA Registered: May 2003
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posted 10-16-2005 08:05 PM
My aunt and uncle (who live in Florida most of the year) were kind enough to give me their Florida plate with the shuttle orbiter on it and "Challenger" at the bottom when they changed it, so it sits proudly on a bookshelf. I'm not sure whether they had to get new plates, or chose to (I think the former), but at any rate, it has a good home! |
lunarrv15 Member Posts: 1355 From: Cincinnati, Ohio, Hamilton Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 10-17-2005 11:41 AM
There is a new Florida plate with the space shuttle and the names of "Columbia" and "Challenger" on the bottom. Sales benefit the Astronauts Memorial Foundation. Your purchase not only honors the numerous brave men and women who risked everything in their quest for knowledge, it also helps keep their mission alive. Your investment in the space plate generates valuable resources for space and technology-based education programs that help inspire the explorers of tomorrow. Purchase the space plate and help shape the future of Florida. ![](http://www.collectspace.com/review/florida_tag_challenger_columbia01.jpg) |
rocketJoe Member Posts: 103 From: Huntsville, AL USA Registered: Jul 2001
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posted 10-17-2005 07:28 PM
Here is my new Saturn plate:![](http://www.collectspace.com/review/rocketjoe/alabama_tag_go4tli.jpg) |
DavidH Member Posts: 1225 From: Huntsville, AL, USA Registered: Jun 2003
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posted 10-18-2005 09:17 AM
Ah, very nice. One of my coworkers has a similar one -- GO4LCH (which I assume is launch, and not lunch), but I like the more ambitious tone of yours. |
Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 44213 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 02-06-2008 06:59 AM
Texas License Plate e-VoteIn January of 2009, production of the next Texas license plate will begin. The public currently has the opportunity to vote for one of four new designs or to keep the current plate. The current standard design, introduced in 2000, includes the space shuttle in the upper left corner. In 2005, the design was amended to include a tribute to the loss of STS-107/Columbia by the addition of seven stars above the shuttle (similar to the custom Columbia plate pictured earlier in this thread). ![](http://collectspace.com/review/texas_2009plate.jpg) Out of the five designs, only the current plate, titled "My Texas", includes reference to the space program. It is the only such plate in U.S. history to include a spacecraft or reference to NASA as part of the state's standard design. Voting began at noon on Monday, Feb. 4 and ends at noon on Monday, Feb. 11. There is a limit of two votes per household. |
Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 44213 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 02-11-2008 10:13 PM
quote: Originally posted by Robert Pearlman: Voting began at noon on Monday, Feb. 4 and ends at noon on Monday, Feb. 11.
With only 114,662 votes, the current design of the Texas license plate -- the only standard license plate to include a reference to the U.S space program -- will be replaced in 2009 with a design titled, "Lone Star Texas (that received 456,685 votes). |
jutrased Member Posts: 65 From: North Smithfield, RI USA Registered: Aug 2003
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posted 02-16-2008 01:56 PM
The National Air and Space Museum has a Virginia plate available as a fundraiser for the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, their extension located at Dulles International Airport. ![](http://www.collectspace.com/review/virginia_tag_nasm01.jpg) It is available as a real registration plate for Virginians, or as a souvenir plate for anyone else. The cost for a single souvenir plate is $10, and it can be personalized for an additional $10. I've had "APOLLO" since 1999. I see that Virginia DMV also offers a plate for NASA Langley Research Center. ![](http://www.collectspace.com/review/virginia_tag_nasalrc01.jpg) |
kr4mula Member Posts: 642 From: Cinci, OH Registered: Mar 2006
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posted 02-21-2008 11:05 AM
Ohio has a special plate for aviation that you can get for an extra $25 a year. We had cool ones for the 100th anniversary of flight, but the plates deleted any aviation themes in more recent years. ![](http://www.collectspace.com/review/ohio_tag_leader_flight01.jpg) The special "Leader in Flight" plate supports a Dayton group that builds and maintains a Wright Flyer. The plate has a small image of a Wright Flyer and the shuttle. I just got one the other day, but with just the random number. |
mikej Member Posts: 483 From: Germantown, WI USA Registered: Jan 2004
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posted 07-29-2012 07:00 PM
In 1994, New York issued a 25th anniversary plate featuring the Lunar Module:![](http://www.collectspace.com/review/mikej/lem-license-plate-sm.jpg) I bought this off of eBay, so I don't know whether the "GRU" has anything to do with Grumman. |
ilbasso Member Posts: 1526 From: Greensboro, NC USA Registered: Feb 2006
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posted 08-02-2012 01:13 PM
My current plate. I thought it was funny to put a powerhouse license plate onto a Prius.![](http://www.collectspace.com/review/ilbasso/northcarolina_tag_saturnv.jpg) |
garymilgrom Member Posts: 1966 From: Atlanta, GA Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 08-03-2012 06:42 AM
I really like the Saturn V plate on a Prius. My plate is a tribute to the orbiter Discovery.![](http://www.collectspace.com/review/garymilgrom/georgia_tag_ov103.jpg) |
Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 44213 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 01-26-2016 01:21 PM
The popularity of Florida's Challenger/Columbia specialty license plate continues to wane, as memories of both shuttle disasters fade — and more competing plates appear on the scene, reports Florida Today. The Challenger plate debuted on Jan. 1, 1987 — less than year after the Jan. 28, 1986 disaster — as the nation's first specialty tag. Tallahassee lawmakers added shuttle Columbia shortly after the 2003 disaster, and the plate was bolted to 50,688 Sunshine State vehicles that year.But now, that number of sales and renewals has dipped to 19,811 plates, Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles records show — a 61 percent plunge. Competition is a key factor: Florida now offers a cornucopia of 137 specialty license plates featuring colleges and universities, political causes, recreational activities, pro sports teams, wildlife and more. The Challenger/Columbia plate's $25 annual fees benefit the Astronaut Memorial Foundation at the Kennedy Space Center Visitors Complex. ![](http://www.collectspace.com/review/florida_tag_challenger01.jpg) |
Skytrotter Member Posts: 31 From: Indianapolis, IN USA Registered: Sep 2013
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posted 03-03-2016 01:11 PM
Here is my license plate and my "Rocket Family" stickers. Just my version of the stick figure families found on many minivans in the USA.![](http://www.collectspace.com/review/skytrotter/indiana_tag_saturnv.jpg) |
Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 44213 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 07-11-2020 06:15 PM
collectSPACE Historic Saturn V swapped for SLS rocket on new Alabama license plateAlabama has traded the glory of a past moon rocket for the promise of a new launch vehicle on the latest version of its space exploration-themed, specialty license plate. The redesigned "Alabama Space Tag" replaces the depiction of the historic Saturn V booster— which 50 years ago launched the first astronauts to the moon — with NASA's new Space Launch System (SLS) heavy-lift rocket. The new plate marks the first time that the Saturn V has not appeared on an Alabama plate in 15 years. ![](http://www.collectspace.com/images/news-071120a-lg.jpg) |