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Apollo 17 memorabilia is quite valuable to say the least, but this Apollo 14 lunar surface-flown Lunar Module Attitude Controller Assembly (ACA) has already reached $37,982 at auction with 9-days left. The ACA essentially connected the crew to the lunar module’s electronic control systems via two hand controllers to input commands, which were then processed by the lunar module’s electronic control systems
This part comes from the personal collection of Lunar Module Pilot (LMP) Edgar Mitchell and was flown to the lunar surface on board the Apollo 14 Lunar Module Antares. It allowed him to control the spacecraft’s rotation in either direction around all three axes, using it to adjust yaw, pitch, and roll. Check out the listing here.
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Based on research conducted by space collector, author, and appraiser Larry McGlynn (a star of Netflix’s ‘Space Dealers’), it is believed that only five of the Lunar Module attitude control assemblies were returned to Earth during the Apollo program: both were returned from Apollo 14 and Apollo 15, and one was brought home from Apollo 17,” said RR Auction.
