2008 NASA Calendar

[cpm9ball]

I know this doesn't have anything to do with numismatics, but I thought some of you who like space photography would be interested.

 

http://www.yearinspace.com/specs.htm

 

Chris

[ibyandsellsmith]

That's very cool, the colors are vivid and alive.

[jgrinz]

Some SACAGAWEA's went into Orbit so your not too off the beaten path

 

[Conder101]

And a high grade 1793 chain cent went to the moon on one of the early missions. I don't remember if it was Apollo 11 or 12. And we can't forget Gus Grissom's mercury dimes on his Mercury mission. Then in the "made from" category of exonumia there are medals that contain metal from some of the spacecraft, (and to a lesser extent some made from the titanium from Russian ICBM's.

[SatTech]

Speaking of NASA...I read something about some NASA commems for next year...The 9 (Pluto counts!) planets as silver $1 with a $50 gold HIGH relief sun. Anyone have anymore info on this?

[Conder101]

There are currently two bills in Congress relating to the NASA commems HR 2750 which passed the House 402 - 0. It was sent to the Senate where it was read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban affairs on August 3rd where it has set ever since.

 

The second one is S 2159 which was introduced to the Senate on October 15th. It was read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban affairs where it has set ever since.