Lot 761
Piece of Flight Control Room (FCR) Handrail Made Into Large Fishing Lure, Retirement Gift to the Flight Director. A fun presentation reflecting the comraderie on NASA Mission Control a fishing lure fashioned from wood taken from the orginal Flight Control Room (FCR). This is the facility where NASA monitored nine Gemini and all Apollo lunar missions, including the historic Apollo 11 trip to the moon and the final Apollo 17 trip to the same lunar body. It is located in Building 30 of NASA Johnson Space Center. The Flight Director was an avid fisherman and this was presented the year of his retirement "From Your MCC Friends" Plaque is 10 x 8" in excellent conditon and the hand-fashioned lure, exaggerated in size, brings a smile. Quite unique. We have another piece of the FCR in this auction with in a more formal presentation. Estimate Value $150 - UP
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