[Kartographer]

The McDivitt Purse, named that way in honor of Apollo 9 Commander Jim McDivitt, who wanted a stowage bag that could be positioned at the front of the spacecraft to hold items, such as the purge valves, which might otherwise fall to the cabin floor while they were preparing for EVAs.

[kinsman redeemer]

Good for him!
He earned the rocks.

[MeshugeMikey]

Brian WIlliams claims to have a similar stash.....

[PROCON]

Neil Armstrong is one of my all-time favorite American heroes.

I remember as if it were yesterday when he and the other Apollo 11 astronauts landed on the moon.

[Moonmad27]

Guys in the comments thank the resident for a law letting them keep these artifacts. All praise to Zero? The resident can’t write his own laws — yet.

[GreyFriar]

moon landing ping

[oh8eleven]

Neil Armstrong
C'mon, he couldn't have been all that important. When he died, my local Gannett rag printed the story on page 4.
And you know the only reason he got into NASA was because of white privilege.

Actually, he was one of the bravest men who ever lived.

[eyedigress]

He should have taken them to Pawn Stars.

[Tupelo]

Someone needs to call Brad Meltzer. He was looking for those moon rocks on his Lost History show a month or so back.

[BobL]

I wonder how many of those items were made in China?

[keat]

They went to the moon with a wrench that looks like it came out of the spare tire kit of my 1978 Honda Civic. Wow.

[RedStateRocker]

I always wanted an endangered species kabob grilled over moon rocks.

[Starboard]

The fact that this historic camera (quite possibly the most famous of all time) was evidently not missed and unaccounted for seems very strange. Why did no one in the vast bureaucracy of offices within the space program not ask where it was? One would think that at least the Air and Space Museum would have inquired about it before. It seems like such an obvious artifact of interest.

[Larry Lucido]

I wonder if this conversation ever happened:

“So where are you and your friends off to now?”

“To the moon, Carol, to the moon! Bang, zoom!”

[nascarnation]

[Morgana]

Any green cheese?

[KoRn]

I would have kept the stuff, or possibly sold it.

The value of those items would be priceless. Anything that has been on the Moon HAS to be worth a fortune. ESPECIALLY souvenirs from that first Moon landing!

[lbryce]

Watching the video of the landing is absolutely indubitably incredible. The outright smoothness, incredible stability of the craft as it floats down to the surface is beyond description. But even the very sense of the flight seemingly pedestrian and mundane can not compare with the unbelievable conditions within the lunar module being literally in jeopardy, even danger due to the computer's continuous malfunctioning. Neil Armstrong's heart rate was said to be 160 beats per minute, and yet not the slightest quiver in their voices regarding the computer problem or that they were heading directly towards a huge boulder with a minute to spare.

Absolute, true to the meaning, real life American heroes.

Commander Neil Armstrong, RIP

[colorado tanker]

[colorado tanker]

The coolest thing he had was the actual camera that broadcast the lander’s descent. The funniest thing he kept was the “waste management” cover.