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Topic: Unexpected sightings of space memorabilia
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mikepf
Member Posts: 448
From: San Jose, California, USA
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 11-29-2006 10:38 AM
   
My daughter was watching the movie "The Santa Clause" on TV the other night. In the take-your-father-to-school scene I was quite surprised to see what looked like a Mercury spacesuit in the back of the classroom. It did not have any active part in the scene. I didn't watch more of the movie but cannot imagine that it was more than just set dressing, but it seemed an unusual choice. Has anyone else seen space stuff show up in odd places on TV, movies or real life? |
John K. Rochester
Member Posts: 1292
From: Rochester, NY, USA
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 11-29-2006 02:12 PM
"Gilmore Girls" used an Estes Mercury-Atlas in one of their story lines earlier this year (2006). Dr. Romano of "ER" had model Saturn V rockets in his office (the same actor who played Pete Conrad in the Apollo 12 episode of HBO's "From The Earth to the Moon"). |
ea757grrl
Member Posts: 768
From: South Carolina
Registered: Jul 2006
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posted 11-29-2006 04:07 PM
Lou Dobbs kept/keeps (I don't know, I haven't watched for a while) a model of a Space Shuttle full stack on one of the shelves in the background on the set of his CNN program. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 47747
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 11-29-2006 04:18 PM
Not so much memorabilia, but if you watch reruns of the Drew Carey Show, for many seasons his cubicle at work included a bumper sticker "I'm PRO-Space and I Vote!" with the National Space Society's phone number and website URL. |
Ben
Member Posts: 1917
From: United States
Registered: May 2000
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posted 11-29-2006 05:27 PM
After the first episode with shuttle crewmembers (STS-61) on Home Improvement, a crew signed photo of Hubble above the payload bay was placed on the set's kitchen wall for the remainder of the series.It's easily visible in many episodes. |
Rick
Member Posts: 379
From: Yadkinville, NC
Registered: Jun 2000
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posted 11-29-2006 05:36 PM
In the greatest TV series ever, "Freaks and Geeks," Bill Haverchuck attempts to launch a model of a Mercury Atlas rocket. It doesn't go over too well... |
randy
Member Posts: 2538
From: West Jordan, Utah USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 11-29-2006 08:14 PM
If you look closely at the background in one of the scenes in Men In Black II, there are pictures of Jim Lovell (in particular) and other astronauts and space memorabilia on the wall of one of the places where they are trying to restore Tommy Lee Jones' characters memory. |
polheiney
Member Posts: 93
From: Hagerstown, MD, US
Registered: Oct 2006
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posted 11-29-2006 08:55 PM
This may be a little obscure, but in the liner notes of the five-disc Sufjan Stevens Christmas album released last Tuesday (Nov. 21, 2006), Sufjan can be seen wearing a hat with a picture of a shuttle on it. |
FutureAstronaut
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From:
Registered: Mar 2006
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posted 11-29-2006 10:34 PM
In the CBS show "NCIS", they have a shuttle launch picture in the headquarters. You can see it in nearly every episode. |
Hart Sastrowardoyo
Member Posts: 3457
From: Toms River, NJ
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 11-30-2006 07:28 AM
In real life, one of the Barnegat Township schools has a poster of New Jersey (taken by the STS-3 crew), signed by Terry Hart. Must have been during a visit by him, although I've never asked when that was. (Understand that Barnegat has more than one elementary school, so I'm curious as to why that particular school has the poster, unless he visited the other schools and those posters are just not on display.) |
mmmoo
Member Posts: 567
From: London, England
Registered: May 2001
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posted 11-30-2006 09:21 AM
In a new Paramount movie coming next summer (2007) called "Drillbit Taylor" written by John Hughes of "Home Alone" fame, I was contacted by the production designer to provide them with two Moonpans lunar surface panoramic posters to dress the set.The story is about a boy who contacts a hitman played by Owen Wilson to protect him from the school bully. As the boy is a bit of a geek, they thought lunar surface posters would be appropriate for his bedroom wall! |
Mike Z
Member Posts: 451
From: Ellicott City, Maryland
Registered: Dec 2005
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posted 11-30-2006 11:57 AM
Just as you walk in to the main library in Columbia, Maryland, there is a framed flown American flag on a presentation card with the STS-1 crew photo stating that, "This flag was flown on Columbia STS-1" and it's personally signed by John Young and Bob Crippen. |
NC Apollo Fan
Member Posts: 261
From: Belmont, NC USA
Registered: Jul 2000
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posted 11-30-2006 11:57 AM
This has been mentioned on cS in the past, but perhaps not everyone caught the post. Led Zepplin released a two-disc compilation (Early Days and Latter Days) a few years back with a cover that shows Plant and crew wearing Apollo 14 spacesuits. With four members I always wondered where they planned to put the extra seat. |
AstronautBrian
Member Posts: 310
From: Louisiana
Registered: Jan 2006
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posted 11-30-2006 12:06 PM
When my wife and I were in the process of moving back to the U.S. from Australia we had to make a couple of trips to the U.S. Consulate in Sydney. Hanging in one of the waiting rooms were two presentations — one was a flown patch and another a flown flag — from two space shuttle missions. I cannot remember which missions they were, but they were from the mid-90's. |
Steve Procter
Member Posts: 1031
From: Leeds, Yorkshire, UK
Registered: Oct 2000
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posted 11-30-2006 04:53 PM
I recall seeing an Apollo 11 crew photo on the wall of a military museum set in an episode of "Columbo.""Just one more question..." |
Rick
Member Posts: 379
From: Yadkinville, NC
Registered: Jun 2000
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posted 12-01-2006 03:59 PM
I forgot this one until just now. A couple of years ago, I was a guest on the "John Boy and Billy" syndicated radio show out of Charlotte. Hanging in the lobby, along with numberous other photos and memorabilia from their career, was a flag that had been flown on the Shuttle. I don't recall which flight or what kind of flag it was (U.S., state or NASA), but I do remember wanting to yank it off the wall and run. |
clifford
Member Posts: 233
From: Maplewood, nj, 07040
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 12-04-2006 08:36 AM
There is a local irish pub in South Orange, NJ called Cryans. On the wall as you walk in and down the stairs, behind a piece of plexi that is screwed to the wall, is an autographed photo of Jim Irwin. The famous one of him on the moon next to the LM. Usually this photo has a pre-printed line, "with his love..." but this one is personalized. I asked if anyone knew anything about it or what it was worth, but no-one knew anything about. |
Scott
Member Posts: 3321
From: Houston, TX
Registered: May 2001
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posted 12-04-2006 09:58 AM
Several years ago I asked the human resources lady where I worked for the name of a good dentist. She gave me one, a few miles up the road from me. I was waiting in his personal office for the initial consultation and before he came in I noticed on the wall a huge framed photo of Gene Cernan saluting the flag at Taurus-Littrow.If I recall it was inscribed something like, "Al, I'll never look this good again but thanks anyway for trying. Gene." I asked the doctor about it when he came back in and he said, "Oh yeah. Gene's a friend. I was in the Air Force in the 60s, was the dentist for Ellington Field and worked on the astronauts. He still comes here." |
Hart Sastrowardoyo
Member Posts: 3457
From: Toms River, NJ
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 12-04-2006 01:09 PM
Star Trek: The Next Generation has an episode called "The Royale," where the crew finds the remains of a 21st-century NASA ship. The patch on the uniform did not bear the name of the NASA crewmember found, was rather was a modified Apollo 17 patch (with the Apollo word removed) and bearing the names Cernan, Evans and Schmitt! |
WAWalsh
Member Posts: 809
From: Cortlandt Manor, NY
Registered: May 2000
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posted 12-05-2006 11:05 AM
In "The West Wing," space-related photos and computer wallpaper tended to appear in Leo's (John Spencer) office.As for some nice collection pieces that caught my attention, a dentist's office in White Plains would probably be the "oddest" place that I have seen a small portion of a collection displayed. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 47747
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 12-05-2006 11:13 AM
I had forgotten about this until I came across an old e-mail last night: While on tour, Paul Kantner of Jefferson Starship had one of the Skylab tank insulation pyramids on stage with him (until such time that it was stolen, which was why I learned of it -- they were trying to find a replacement). |
Hart Sastrowardoyo
Member Posts: 3457
From: Toms River, NJ
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 01-30-2007 07:53 AM
On board the cruise ship Norwegian Dawn, Deck 12 forward, starboard side, they have plaques from various ports when they made their first calling. One of those plaques is from Port Canaveral, with a "first flight" Discovery medallion attached. |
BMacKinnon
Member Posts: 235
From: Waterford, MI. USA
Registered: Jul 2007
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posted 12-25-2008 09:35 PM
My family and I stopped in at Tony Packo's in Toledo and came across the image of Don Thomas and a signed hot dog bun among the hundreds of signed buns on the wall.They also had an image of a can of Tony Packo's Chili in space. FYI - Tony Packo's was made famous by Jamie Farr the actor who is from Toledo and he mentioned it several times playing the character of Corporal Klinger on the TV show MASH.  
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saturn1b
Member Posts: 159
From: Westcliffe, CO
Registered: Jun 2006
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posted 12-28-2008 12:30 PM
Just the other day I caught a re-run of "The King Of Queens" and in the episode where Spence and Danny are fighting over who gets the bigger bedroom, they have the NASA poster of all the different rockets on the wall. |
TRS
Member Posts: 730
From: Wellington, New Zealand
Registered: Mar 2003
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posted 01-05-2009 05:13 AM
Can't remember the name of the supermarket or the street, but Gordo Cooper added a handprint to the wall of fame outside a supermarket window in downtown Melbourne Australia at some point. Sharon and I found it purely by accident when we first visited in 2000. |
David Bryant
Member Posts: 986
From: Norfolk UK
Registered: Feb 2005
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posted 01-05-2009 06:33 AM
I was walking around the National Space Centre in Leicester and noticed that Buzz Aldrin had written his name on a WSS cardboard cutout of himself. I pointed the sig out to the curator I was with and he was blissfully unaware of it! |
sts205cdr
Member Posts: 705
From: Sacramento, CA
Registered: Jun 2001
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posted 01-07-2009 12:16 PM
I was walking past a doctor's office in the hospital where I work and spotted models of a NASA T-38 and a Shuttle Training Aircraft displayed on his filing cabinet. On one wall was a large framed collection of NASA patches. It turns out he had worked at JSC and had just missed the cut in the 1997 astronaut selection process. |
manilajim
Member Posts: 256
From: Bergenfield, NJ USA
Registered: May 2000
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posted 01-07-2009 05:28 PM
In one of the backstage areas of Carnegie Hall in New York City there are big NASA logo stickers on two doors. |
NASA Glenn
Member Posts: 80
From: Cleveland OH
Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 03-27-2009 01:36 PM
Cleveland (Ohio) City Hall proudly displays flown flag and patch presentations from Challenger STS-8 and Columbia STS-5 in a display case in the main rotunda. |
mjanovec
Member Posts: 3811
From: Midwest, USA
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted 03-27-2009 03:24 PM
I was watching the Season 8 DVD set of the X-Files recently and there was an episode where Scully gives Ageny Doggett an Apollo 11 medallian that Mulder have given to her a few years prior. The medallian ends up playing a role in the plot later on in the episode...I've noticed a few other bits of space memorabilia show up on earlier seasons of the X-Files, including a framed photo of the space shuttle landing on wall of an FBI office that appears in several episodes. Not to mention there is also an episode that directly involves NASA and a former (fictiional) astronaut... |
Rick
Member Posts: 379
From: Yadkinville, NC
Registered: Jun 2000
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posted 05-17-2009 08:29 AM
In the James Bond movie "From Russia With Love," there's a picture of Yuri Gagarin on the wall of the Soviet embassy. |
Leon Ford
Member Posts: 309
From: Shreveport, LA, United States
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 05-17-2009 03:15 PM
Watching the James Bond film "Diamonds are Forever" this weekend and there is a model of the Saturn V in Willard White's office. Looks like a couple of other rocket models in there also. |
Mr Meek
Member Posts: 353
From: Chattanooga, TN
Registered: Dec 2007
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posted 05-26-2009 10:33 AM
The Guinness World Records museum in Gatlinburg, Tennessee surprised me with a few space-related displays. Most are (somewhat out-of-date) trivia and pictures printed on Lexan, but they do have a couple of interesting pieces: For whatever reason, the "flight suit" is a USSRC uniform, and the patch display places Apollo 1 and ASTP next to one another. Ignore the goober mugging for the camera, that's just me being a ham.  This one is actually pretty interesting. The flag (and, presumably jacket) were flown on Skylab I; but the writing on the note card (from Pete Conrad) has, unfortunately, faded to nothing. For a museum that is mostly comprised of "World's tallest man," "Fastest critter," and "Most marshmallows eaten in 30 seconds," I thought the Skylab display was pretty unusual. |
Gilbert
Member Posts: 1427
From: Carrollton, GA USA
Registered: Jan 2003
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posted 06-05-2009 01:23 PM
In an episode of "30 Rock," Alec Baldwin had a memory of an unforgettable space toy he got for Chrsitmas as a kid. He went out and "procured" an identical item from a collector to rekindle his enjoyment.On the show he paid $5000 for a detailed replica of the "Apollo command/service module and lunar lander." He held the item for a moment on screen and it looked to be about 1/48th scale and did look nice. The modules were docked. |
DSeuss5490
Member Posts: 300
From: Columbus, Ohio USA
Registered: Jan 2003
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posted 06-08-2009 10:11 PM
Last winter I had arranged a private tour of the archeological museum at Ohio State University for my son's Cub Scout den. While perusing their guest book I found a printed-style signature of Neil Armstrong from 2006. I asked the professor-curator about his visit and he confirmed it was the Neil Armtrong and said he was a delighful man who took a special interest in the meteorite display. Imagine that?! |
BMckay
Member Posts: 3725
From: MA, USA
Registered: Sep 2002
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posted 06-29-2009 12:28 AM
These signs were found on the wall at a Boy Scout Camp (Camp Wanocksett) in Jaffrey, New Hampshire. I think they were done by scouts. 
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FFrench
Member Posts: 3260
From: San Diego
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 08-08-2009 11:12 PM
Looking around York Minster in England last week, I spotted two roof bosses — one symbolizing Neil Armstrong on the moon, the other a more generic man on the moon.Apparently competition winners from a mid-1980s children's design effort.
Then, at the local Castle Museum, a "Sixties" exhibition with large acrylic pieces representing many Sixties iconic images, including a Lunar Module. Plus a sit-inside Mercury spacecraft with Aurora 7 artwork.  
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AJ
Member Posts: 511
From: Plattsburgh, NY, United States
Registered: Feb 2009
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posted 08-27-2009 11:30 PM
The current issue (August 2009) of Vanity Fair (two covers: Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett) has a very cool article and photo spread about Don and Betty Draper, lead characters on AMC's "Mad Men," which is such an awesome show.Crazily enough, in one photo a framed WSS portrait of Jim Lovell makes an appearance. |
MichaelD
Member Posts: 90
From: Troy Michigan USA
Registered: May 2009
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posted 09-13-2009 11:05 AM
In the Commanding Offier's (CO) Office at Coast Guard Sector Houston is a small Coast Guard Flag that flew on the shuttle.At the elementary school in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was a signed photo from Fred Haise to the school. I aaw it there in 1995. |
Hart Sastrowardoyo
Member Posts: 3457
From: Toms River, NJ
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 08-19-2010 03:11 PM
Not my article, but Reisman's training jumpsuit is now at his middle school. Central Middle School students will have a new source of inspiration when they enter through the school's front doors this coming school year.Astronaut and alum Garrett Reisman was honored Tuesday afternoon, with school officials dedicating the school's lobby wall with large frames containing pictures of Reisman's mission to the International Space Station, as well as the space uniform he used training for the mission. Reisman, who was dressed in a blue NASA uniform, said he was grateful for the honor. |
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