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America's space exploration is a popular theme with many Zippo collectors.
Space Zippos
n NASA wanted a more portable camera for its space missions, it selected Nikon as a special manufacturer. This two-sided Zippo is from 1980.
On July 20, 1969 the Apollo 11
astronauts the first manned flight to the moon touched down. The popular
Town & Country process "Moonlanding" Zippo from 1969 celebrates this historic
event. The Zippo on the right with Armstrong's famous quote "That's One
Small Step for a Man and One Giant Leap for Mankind 10:56 PM EDT" is
unusual as is the tape measure.
The 1969.Town & Country Zippo
with the colorful images of Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin "Buzz"
Aldrin is the rarest of Apollo 11 commemorative Zippos. The image of the
three astronauts in black paint on the 1969 Zippo to the right was replicated
in color in 1984
In 1962 Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation received a contract to design and build the lunar module which was ultimately used in the 1969 moon landing. The slim Zippo is dated 1966
In October 1967 Russia
launched the first satellite into space. The United States was shocked,
fearing the Russians have jumped way ahead in the conquest of space.
Senator Lyndon Johnson expressed the fears at the time: "Soon, they will be
dropping bombs on us from space like kids dropping rocks onto cars from
freeway overpasses!" General Electric was a pioneer in the design and
construction of re-entry vehicles, and the slim Zippo is dated 1958, the year
NASA and the Mercury project were created.
In 1961 NASA announced a
plan to extend the existing manned space flight program by development of a
two-man spacecraft. The program was officially designated Gemini, named
after the third constellation of the zodiac, featuring the twin stars Castor
and Pollux. The Gemini program ended after twelve missions in 1966, the year
this slim Zippo with the Gemini logo was produced.
The Apollo program began in 1963 and ended in 1972 after landing six missions on the moon. The Zippo with the Apollo logo is from 1976.
The
Apollo-Soyuz Test Project was the first human spaceflight mission managed
jointly by two nations, the US and the Soviet Union. In 1975 it achieved
its goal of rendezvous and docking of human spacecraft. The slim Zippo
is from 1974.
This slim Zippo from 1978
depicts a lunar vehicle of unknown origin.
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