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A complete single-owner archive saved by a Kennedy Space Center employee who was hired in the spring of 1972, in the weeks around the launch of Apollo 16 (April 16, 1972). His new-employee orientation memo, the launch-issue employee newspaper, and the Apollo 16 crew\'s thank-you letter to the KSC team are all here - this is the Apollo program as seen from a desk inside the fence at KSC.
THE LOT INCLUDES:- SPACEPORT NEWS (KSC employee newspaper), 4 issues: Vol. 11 No. 7 (Apr. 6, 1972, countdown preview), No. 8 (Apr. 20, 1972 - the APOLLO 16 LAUNCH issue), No. 9 (May 4, 1972, Apollo 17 prep), No. 10 (May 18, 1972)- TRW \'FLIGHT DATA\' spiral notebook for Apollo 16 with the Young-Mattingly-Duke crew patch on the cover; inside tables run from Gagarin through Apollo 15. Cover glossy and clean- TWO RCA Apollo 16 paper sun visors with the big crew-patch art - flat, never assembled, adjustment slits and locking tabs intact. One visor is bright white; the other is evenly age-toned and has a tan tape mark along its top edge (see photos)- Letter \'TO: The KSC Team FROM: The Apollo 16 Crew\' with mission emblem - the crew\'s printed thank-you to the launch team. NOTE: the signatures on this letter are PRINTED FACSIMILES, part of the original document as distributed to the workforce - this is NOT a hand-signed autograph piece- NASA ACTIVITIES magazine, Vol. 3 No. 4, April 15, 1972 (moon cover)- NASA News releases, April 1972: Dr. Kurt Debus\' statement and \'Space Shuttle Operational Site Selected\' (Apr. 14, 1972 - KSC chosen as the first Shuttle launch site)- KSC BULLETIN internal sheets (4): Nos. 25-72, 27-72, 31-72, 32-72 - cafeteria menus, ride-share classifieds, for-sale ads. One page carries the original owner\'s handwritten calculations/course tallies in the margins - his own working notes, left as found- His NASA KSC New Employee Orientation memorandum, April 26, 1972 (orientation May 2, 1972) - the provenance anchor for the whole archive- John F. Kennedy Space Center \'Facts Book\' booklet; KSC Fact Sheet 03 \'Launch Complex 39 Facilities\' (Jan. 1971)- Florida\'s SPACE COAST magazine, Vol. 4 No. 10, Apollo 16 crew cover- Skylab leaflet; two Space Shuttle leaflets; \'America Needs Space to Grow\' National Space Club bumper sticker; \'Space Benefits\' pamphlet; Apollo 16 crew bio sheet and launch postcard; Apollo 16 Saturn V rollout photo print and LRV art sheet; two Orlando Sentinel Apollo 16 newspaper pages (Apr. 1972, clipped, edge wear)
Condition: very good overall for 50+ year old paper - flat, clean and complete. The specific wear noted above (one toned visor with a tape mark; clipped newspaper pages with edge wear; owner\'s handwriting on one bulletin page) is part of its honest, single-owner history.
Ships flat and well protected between stiff boards. Free local pickup in Memphis, TN.
