OT: NASA Picture info

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Posted By: Randall Adams

My wife recenly picked up a small group of NASA pictures from her Father-in-law who recenty passed away, according to my wife he got them from somebody who was in the military around the early 1970's. I would appreciate any info as on these pics as well as value.

Thanks,
-Randall Adams

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Posted By: Jon Canfield

Don't know the answers to your questions but that Saturn 5 photo is awesome. Gives you perspective as to how big and powerful the machine was (and still is the most powerful machine ever devised by man).

On a side note, you may want to contact Florian Noller (http://spaceflori.com/). He is an expert with early space memorabilia and autographs. I believe he is based out of Germany but probably the best known name out there.

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Posted By: MVSNYC

can't help, sorry...but just wanted to say, that first pic is awesome!!!

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Posted By: leon

Having spent a few of my formative years in Clear Lake (next to Nasa)I have been there many times. Last year we went there on a trip with my daughters girl scouts and we have gone there as a family a few times too. I don't know the answers but I think you can get a hold of someone at NASA and they will be able to guide you quite a bit. There are many NASA historians around Nasa .... If you have troubles finding anything with more than 20 minutes of internet searching give me an email and I will help. Neat photos and sorry I can't give a value on them...

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Posted By: DD

I've had hundreds of NASA photos, and still have some. You can purchase them in lots on eBay for a couple of bucks apiece. Individually, up to about $20 for some shots.

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Posted By: davidcycleback

Not NASA, but my dad knew a theoretical physicist who was part of Los Alamos atomic bomb testing and had some interesting stories (google : Hirschfelder atom bomb). As they’d never detonated a atomcic bomb before, a worry was that the bomb might ignite the ozone. After the blast, he tested the ground around the blast site. When a military jeep came to pick him up, they did a Geiger measurement of him. The measurement was so high they refused to let him in the jeep and he had to walk back the several miles behind the jeep. He lived many happy years after, but even as an old man the skin on his face would peal similar to as if he had a sunburn.

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Posted By: Jon Canfield

While we are on this topic, one of my favorite items I own is a copy of the "Young Peoples Book of the Year" from 1966 which has been autographed by Ed White on the cover. As most know, Ed White tragically died when he, Gus Grissom and Robert Chaffee where caught inside the oxygen-rich command module during an Apollo 1 test. There is no question, however, that without their sacrifice, man would never have reached the moon.