I found a set of 25 slides of the Apollo 15 mission while going through some of my Grandmothers old things. I checked around online, but can’t seem to find anything to indicate these were a popular novelty item. Does anyone know anything about whether these can be found all over the place, or is this set of slides something that could be rare? Thanks for any help or ideas!
My grandfather worked for a NASA contractor (Rockwell) in the Sixties and Seventies and received photo and press packages from every Apollo mission. I wish I knew what became of them after he died.
Packaged slide sets were a reasonably common thing sold in tourist shops. You’d go to the Eiffel Tower / Forbidden City / Statue of Liberty, buy a set and interleave them with your own far less classy efforts when you returned to torture your relatives with a slide night of your overseas travels. I bought them from museums into perhaps the early 2000s.
Assuming these are a commercial set then they’d probably have been sold at NASA visitor centres or aerospace museums.
You have to go to the modern value guide - eBay.
There are many sets in the $10-30 range, and some people who think their shit really smells like unicorn farts asking in the thousands of dollars. But there is always one of them in every crowd.
Now I think I’d like a set. If only I had a projector!
I agree. I had sets of slides I bought at the NASA Johnson Space Center gift shop. They were useful for projecting through something I was building for them.
Haha! Thank you so much!
Thank you so much for this information. My grandmother lived on Long Island and visited our family in Northern Virginia often during my childhood. We routinely visited the Air & Space museum (and other museums in Washington, DC) during her visits so I’m assuming this is where she picked up his novelty item. Thank you so much for your input. It was incredibly helpful.
Thank you so much for the info. Much appreciated!
The Grumman factory where the lunar modules were built was on Long Island. Employees there likely received the same NASA swag my grandfather got at Rockwell in California.
i have a unicorn fart projector you can lease for a reasonable amount.
I was thinking, I could buy a set and scan them, and put them on the big TV. Maybe…
And in case it isn’t blindingly obvious, every one of those images, and millions more from every single NASA mission ever, is available for free, and in higher quality, at NASA’s Web site.