Feb 072015
 

Neil Armstrongs widow found a white bag in a closet, emptied it out and found it was full of clearly space-related stuff. So she asked the National Air and Space Museum for assistance in identifying it. Turns out… it’s bits and pieces of the Apollo 11 Lunar Module. Most profoundly (to me, anyway) is the little 16mm film camera that looked out the window and actually filmed the landing, as well as Armstrongs descent down the ladder.

Lunar Surface Flown Apollo 11 Artifacts From the Neil Armstrong Estate

I don’t have much use for religious icons… but damn, if any physical objects merit such veneration, it’d be these. They are now on display at the NASM. The link above has a bunch of high-rez photos.

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