Apollo 13 Mission Manual Pages To Be Auctioned

astroengine writes "On April 13 — the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 13 accident — Bonhams in New York City will auction off pages from the Apollo 13 mission manual, with handwritten notes by flight commander Jim Lovell. I'm thinking the chances of actually outbidding a rich space enthusiast are slim to none, but having a chance at owning a piece of spaceflight history should be popular nonetheless." Here is an item listing page at Bonhams for one of those pages, which, as Gizmodo notes, saved three astronauts' lives.

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Re:Why are these not being given to a Museum?

[khallow]

All that museum has to do is outbid that private collector. If they can't do that, then they must not have been a better place for those documents. I tire of these vapid arguments for the public good. If you want museums to be able to outbid collectors for stuff like this, then give the museums money for the purpose. At least now, it's likely that the documents will be preserved for the future rather than end up in a dumpster (which is what is happening too often with NASA documents at NASA's official library in its headquarters).