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Topic: Apollo 11 passes and employee badges
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lunardreamer
Member Posts: 93
From: Royal Oak, Michigan USA
Registered: Nov 2013
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posted 10-29-2018 11:30 AM
   
I have Apollo 11 launch badge number 2 in my collection. I'm curious to know if someone on this site owns or knows where badge number 1 is? 
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Ken Havekotte
Member Posts: 3545
From: Merritt Island, Florida, Brevard
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 10-29-2018 12:26 PM
Center Director Dr. Kurt Debus, by his executive secretary, kept many of the early-number issued badges for Apollo 11 and for other Apollo launch events. Many badges on hold by his office were also handled by KSC Deputy Director Miles Ross. |
Chuckster01
Member Posts: 1080
From: Orlando, FL
Registered: Jan 2014
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posted 10-29-2018 05:32 PM
Ken, there where also a good number of launch passes with very low numbers kept by Arnold Richman and I am happy to have number 10.
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Ken Havekotte
Member Posts: 3545
From: Merritt Island, Florida, Brevard
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 10-29-2018 05:53 PM
That's right, Chuck, as I had forgotten about Arnold Richman as well since he was a high-ranking public affairs official. His office was able to distribute VIP badges as needed and/or requested by Debus, Ross, and Gordon Harris, in addition to their own. |
Ken Havekotte
Member Posts: 3545
From: Merritt Island, Florida, Brevard
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 01-21-2019 11:49 AM
Depicted below are nearly 50 badges issued for Apollo 11 throughout the last five decades from my own personal collections, all different in some way or another. We've got firing room badges, VIP, press, on pad access, support areas, viewing site permits, anniversaries, special events, reunions, and even various membership cards and ticket issues. Many were used by myself and note the Armstrong and Aldrin signed items as well. It's almost a lifetime of collecting, however, I am still missing a few Apollo 11 badges that I know are here somewhere, including a rare Mission Control Center access badge to the Houston space center during the actual flight itself. Let's see more badges here in commemorating the first manned lunar landing space voyage — bring them on!  |
Steven Kaplan
Member Posts: 156
From: New Jersey
Registered: Jul 2001
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posted 01-21-2019 12:31 PM
Your collection never ceases to amaze. We all benefit from you passion, expertise and your desire to share it with us all on collectSPACE. |
David Carey
Member Posts: 972
From:
Registered: Mar 2009
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posted 01-21-2019 06:48 PM
Very nice, Ken!Just one Apollo 11 badge in the collection here. Like with many of these Apollo 11 MCC badges there is some degradation to the lamination but, hey, "it was there." Always liked the hand-drawn image, unique to the Apollo 11 Mission Control badge. Melvin Brooks was a flight controller with the Gemini program and later, the assistant Chief of Experiments Systems/Payload Operations for the Apollo Program.  On edit, and shame on me. There are TWO Apollo 11 badges in the collection. Vice President Spiro Agnew's Apollo 11 personalized VIP launch pass, covered in some fun forensic research down-thread here (lots of other very cool badges too).  |
413 is in
Member Posts: 676
From: Alexandria, VA USA
Registered: May 2006
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posted 02-06-2019 09:47 AM
Wow, that’s an impressive collection, Ken! That Agnew badge is also a fine piece, David. Here's my collection of Apollo 11 related badges and access passes. |
413 is in
Member Posts: 676
From: Alexandria, VA USA
Registered: May 2006
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posted 02-08-2019 09:07 AM
Found one more. |
Silver
Member Posts: 71
From: Washington, DC
Registered: Jul 2015
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posted 07-17-2019 11:04 PM
This is really cool thread. Nice collections! Does anyone know which specific pass/badge would be necessary to have been an observer/photographer in the walk-out area? I'm looking specifically in regards to the fenced in area directly to the left of the ramp during Apollo 11. Thanks! |
Go4Launch
Member Posts: 562
From: Seminole, Fla.
Registered: Jul 2003
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posted 07-26-2019 07:08 PM
If you were a news photographer, I think all you would have needed was the Apollo 11 press badge. They were bused over to the MSOB from the LC-39 Press Site with NASA public affairs escorts. |
MartinAir
Member Posts: 243
From:
Registered: Oct 2020
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posted 03-14-2021 03:19 PM
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Originally posted by lunardreamer:
I have Apollo 11 launch badge number 2 in my collection.
Are these all autopen or hand-signed (by Kurt Debus)? |
Ken Havekotte
Member Posts: 3545
From: Merritt Island, Florida, Brevard
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 03-14-2021 03:55 PM
All were printed with the same Debus signature. |
lunardreamer
Member Posts: 93
From: Royal Oak, Michigan USA
Registered: Nov 2013
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posted 03-04-2022 05:03 AM
Does anyone have an answer to my original question? Does badge number 01 exist? Perhaps a cS member owns badge 01? |
J.L
Member Posts: 694
From: Bloomington, Illinois, USA
Registered: May 2005
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posted 03-04-2022 08:04 AM
Badge #1 was worn by Launch Operations Manager Paul Donnelly. He had that number for all of the manned Apollo launches as far as I can tell. |
Zoo Keeper
Member Posts: 40
From: Akron, OH
Registered: Feb 2021
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posted 12-14-2022 05:20 PM
Badge no. 1 appears to have been sold at the May 2013 Regency Superior space auction, lot 185. As noted above, the badge originated from the office of Kurt Debus and was in the possession of his secretary Shirley Ferguson.The auction catalogue can be found here. |
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