Chuckster01
Member Posts: 1155
From: Orlando, FL
Registered: Jan 2014
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posted 12-03-2015 03:54 PM
   
I see the photo I posted cut off some of the inscription, so here you go: This capsule contains the Lunar Roll of Honor and has been implanted here in the year of 19-- ( exact year left blank). Contained herein are the name of (left blank) men and women of the neighboring planet earth who contributed to the fulfillment on man's greatest engineering dream. What I have found so far is the original plan for the Lunar Roll of Honor was to leave the names of all 300,000 to 350,000 NASA workers and contractors who contributed to the Apollo moon mission in any capacity on the surface of the moon. The roll of honor was to be left on the moon by the first mission to land on the surface. This incentive program was scaled down after the Apollo 1 fire and replaced with the Manned Flight Awareness program, the Saturn V Roll of Honor and other quality incentive programs. |
Ken Havekotte
Member Posts: 3888
From: Merritt Island, Florida, Brevard
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 11-06-2024 06:23 PM
Related to this subject and the Apollo flown-to-the-moon project of a microfilmed copy of a NASA Manned Flight Awareness (MFA) booklet, please note the two montages of an interesting and quite rare assembly of objects and supporting documentation. 
The names of 790 top NASA and industry honorees from Kennedy Space Center, Marshall Space Flight Center, and the Manned Spacecraft Center were enshrined forever in a special MFA canister put on the lunar surface by the Apollo 15 crew in 1971. The history of the project is a long one, which may even include other Apollo flights that flew to the moon's surface from missions 11, 12, 13 (not on moon), and 14 of those dedicated NASA and industry honorees leading up to Apollo 11's first lunar landing in 1969. The placement of the 20-page booklet entitled "...We Came in Peace For All Mankind." was not known for years after the Apollo program ended in 1972. Furthermore, it was uncertain whether Apollo 15 mission commander Dave Scott and command module pilot Al Worden knew of the plan in advance. Confirmation that a filmed booklet is in fact on the moon's highlands surface appears in copies obtained by The Huntsville News of three NASA letters hand signed by lunar module pilot Jim Irwin and by Dr. Wernher von Braun, then NASA's deputy associate administrator, attesting to the fact. The printed copies of the booklet have been placed in the U.S. Library of Congress, the National Archives, and in the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, all in Washington, D.C. "I deposited a microfilmed version of the MFA Apollo 11 booklet to the surface of the moon during the Apollo 15 mission." Astronaut Irwin wrote in three letters to C. Dale Pope, then NASA's main MFA coordinator at KSC, because the issue was "sensitive" and lacked at the time specific "high-level approval."| "It was a pleasure," the letters' typed-written content continues, "for me to leave the booklet containing the names of the MFA Honorees from the beginning of Apollo representing a tribute to those outstanding employees who contributed to man's first landing on the moon." The three similar-content letters were signed by Irwin on December 7, 1971, as requested by Pope along with a letter signed by von Braun to Pope on May 23, 1972. Depicted here are two of the original letters (not copies) by Irwin along with other documentation that had been a valuable keepsake of Dale Pope's personal NASA collection. Included above is an original version of the engraved canister itself (with another as pictured at the top of this thread). All of the 790 names are listed in the roll of honor book seen above in the first montage of mine along with their NASA work places and/or aerospace companies they represented. |
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