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Description:
Apollo 17, Flown Film Fragment with Signed NASA Certificate, December 1972. Small 1/2 x 1/2 in. piece of photographic film that traveled to the surface of the moon, taped to a presentation certificate signed by Johnson Space Center Supervisory Aerospace Technologist Richard W. Underwood, with an Apollo 17 mission patch, the certificate states that this piece of film orbited around the moon with Cernan, Evans, and Schmitt, that it landed on the moon, carried by the Lunar Module, left the moon to reunite with Command Module, and ultimately returned to earth.
The Rudolf Spoor Collection of NASA Photographs and Ephemera
Estimate $600-800
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Richard W. UnderwoodJohn Dorfman
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