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[Apollo 11]

Goodwill Disc with Framed Enlargement

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July 15, 03:02 PM GMT

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4,000 - 6,000 USD

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1,800 USD

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[APOLLO 11]

A circular silicon disc, 1 ½ inches diameter but with one flattened edge, wafer-thin, North Adams, MA, Semi-Conductor Division of Sprague Electric Company, obverse 🅰in blueish-purple coating, etched lettering "From Planet Earth ... July 1969" visible to the naked eye, and an array of microscopic etching, the reverse gray, sealed in faceted (11-sided) Lucite, 1 ¾ inches diameter, in original blue velvet presentation case. 


WITH a photo🅷graphic enlargement of the labeled "Goodwill Messages From Around the World Brought to the Moon by the Astronauts of Apollo 11," 21 x 12½ matted and framed under glass. Presentation is twenty times the size of the text on the disc. NASA gold seal affixed to lower right.

Carl Bert Aꦿlbert (1908-2000), 46th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1971-1977, R𓃲epresentative, Oklahoma’s 3rd congressional district from 1947 to 1977; by descent.

Rahman, Tahir. We Came in Peace: The Untold Story of the Apollo 11 Silicon Disc. [2007]. 

APOLLO 11 GOಞODWILL DISC PRESENTED TO AN OFFICIAL NAMED ON THE DISC.


Along with the American flag and the "We came in peace for all mankind" plaque, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin left a silicon disc on the lunar surface. That disc was manufactured by Sprague, an established NASA contractor with more than 50,000 components in Apollo🐻 spacecraft. It was commissioned by NASA's Electronics Research Center and carried messages from 73♛ world leaders. The intention was to celebrate Apollo 11 landing on the Moon as an achievement for all humanity. 

The messages were photographed, reduced 200 times, and etched o꧃nto the surface of the disc; a process similar🍨 to that of integrated circuits. The example carried on Apollo 11 and left on the Moon's surface, like its sister in the Smithsonian, was encased in an 11-sided (hendecagon) protective aluminum holder, symbolizing Apollo 11. This special duplicate version replicates the aluminum holder with its Lucite encasement. 

It is unclear how many of the discs were produced. It's likely that only a handful exist now in private hands and likely only presented to top officials such as Carl Albert, who was, at the time, U.S. House Majority Leader, and whose name is among those who are microscopically printed on the disc. The present example is identical to that on the Moon and is from the finalized version that also✃ included a message from the Pope.