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Topic: Gold Space Coins and the Nation of Celestia
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zee_aladdin
Member Posts: 781
From: California
Registered: Oct 2004
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posted 02-01-2007 08:52 PM
   
Does anyone have information on the Nation of Celestial Space that gave our Mercury, Gemini and Apollo astronauts passports to the moon, and also made gold space coins back in the 60s? |
cfreeze79
Member Posts: 455
From: Herndon, VA, USA
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 02-01-2007 11:19 PM
According to Edwin S. Strauss' book, "How To Start Your Own Country", the entry for "The Nation of Celestial Space" reads... In 1948, James Thompson Mangan (Oak Lawn, IL) laid claim to all of space, calling his nation 'Celestia'. Some coins were minted: the Erg, the Gold Celeston, and the Silver Joule. He was reported still active in 1959. In 1964, he wrote a book on salemanship called "The Secret of Perfect Living," which seems to have fone fairly well. Strauss' book has has a copy of the forming declaration of "The Nation of Celestial Space", as well as a picture of a sheet of their postage stamps. No mention is made of the space programs and Celestia, and the book's copyright is 1999.Also see Wikipedia's entry for the Nation of Celestial Space. |
spaceman1953
Member Posts: 953
From: South Bend, IN
Registered: Apr 2002
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posted 02-02-2007 03:55 PM
I have a clipping from a Chicago Tribune or Sun-Times newspaper of the 1969-era, with the Apollo flights, he got "new" publicity about his Nation of Celestia project. | |
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