Lunar Bible Goes for $75K at Auction
One of 512 “lunar Bibles” — tiny, but complete, microform King James Bibles — was recently auctioned for $75,000: Read more
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Astronauts and Fighter Pilot Traditions: Traveling Playboys
After a scandal involving “inappropriate” photos in a commercial airline cockpit, this site covered the fighter pilot tradition of putting risqué photos in cross country mission planning materials. It appears the Apollo astronauts did the same thing.
On January 13th an auction house is planning to start selling off artifacts from a variety of space missions, including a Playboy centerfold:
Vintage color calendar photo of Playboy Playmate Miss August 1967, DeDe Lind, which was stowed away in the Apollo 12 command module Yankee Clipper during its November 1969 voyage to the moon…
The topless image is an original taken from one of the 1969 calendars published by Playboy and features the month Read more
General, Astronaut Lauds Faith and Prayer
Retired Brig. Gen. Charles Duke Jr, an Apollo astronaut and the 10th man to walk on the moon, was invited to speak at the US Air Force Academy prayer luncheon on February 9th. He spoke on “America’s Godly Heritage,” and noted that he and his wife redirected their energy “toward God.” He is now president of the Duke Ministry for Christ.
In his remarks, General Duke also highlighted the nation’s religious heritage:
“From the beginning, we were a Godly nation. We were conceived as a religious nation with freedom of religion but not free from God,” he said.
He cited the Mayflower Compact written in the 1600s Read more