Silly Putty on Apollo 8?

That's the claim of http://www.chem.umn.edu/outreach/Sillyputty.html
Any truth to it?
--
Kevin Willoughby lid

In this country, we produce more students with university degrees
in sports management than we do in engineering. - Dean Kamen

Kevin Willoughby wrote:
That's the claim of http://www.chem.umn.edu/outreach/Sillyputty.html
Any truth to it?
--
Kevin Willoughby lid

In this country, we produce more students with university degrees
in sports management than we do in engineering. - Dean Kamen

The Silly Putty company web site also makes the same claim.

http://www.sillyputty.com/
http://www.sillyputty.com/campus_news/spfactsheet.pdf

"The astronauts of the Apollo 8 mission carried Silly Putty into space
with them, in a
specially designed sterling silver egg, to alleviate boredom and to
help fasten down tools
during the weightless period. Neiman-Marcus, a Dallas, Texas, retailer,
later sold the
limited-edition Silly Putty eggs for $75 in their Christmas catalog."


Rusty

Rusty wrote:



"The astronauts of the Apollo 8 mission carried Silly Putty into space
with them, in a
specially designed sterling silver egg, to alleviate boredom and to
help fasten down tools
during the weightless period. Neiman-Marcus, a Dallas, Texas, retailer,
later sold the
limited-edition Silly Putty eggs for $75 in their Christmas catalog."



Doesn't this fall into the same category that "The Fallen Astronaut"
figure on the Moon did?
http://www.check-six.com/lib/Fallen_Astros.htm
The artist got into trouble when it was found he was selling replicas of
the figure.

Pat

Pat Flannery wrote:
Rusty wrote:



"The astronauts of the Apollo 8 mission carried Silly Putty into space
with them, in a
specially designed sterling silver egg, to alleviate boredom and to
help fasten down tools
during the weightless period. Neiman-Marcus, a Dallas, Texas, retailer,
later sold the
limited-edition Silly Putty eggs for $75 in their Christmas catalog."



Doesn't this fall into the same category that "The Fallen Astronaut"
figure on the Moon did?
http://www.check-six.com/lib/Fallen_Astros.htm
The artist got into trouble when it was found he was selling replicas of
the figure.

Pat

It's Gort! "Gort, Klaatu Barada Nikto!!!!!"

;-)

From time to time you see people selling pieces of mylar from the
Apollo 11
command modules, also. How do they get things like that? (I know, buy
some
mylar, crinkle it up, scorch it and claim it was from Apollo 11.)

Rusty

Pat Flannery wrote:

Rusty wrote:

"The astronauts of the Apollo 8 mission carried Silly Putty into space
with them, in a
specially designed sterling silver egg, to alleviate boredom and to
help fasten down tools
during the weightless period...

Whoa. Did they only use it to make impressions from the Bible pages, or
did they bounce it around the cabin?

I loved how that **** used to bounce like hell -- and you couldn't
really get it into a perfectly spherical ball, of course, so it'd bounce
at really weird unexpected angles, too.


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..

"Though I could not caution all, I yet may warn a few:
Don't lend your hand to raise no flag atop no ship of fools!"

--grateful dead.
__________________________________________________ _____________
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mike flugennock wrote:

Pat Flannery wrote:


Rusty wrote:

"The astronauts of the Apollo 8 mission carried Silly Putty into space
with them, in a
specially designed sterling silver egg, to alleviate boredom and to
help fasten down tools
during the weightless period...


Watch the attribution, I didn't write any of that.

Whoa. Did they only use it to make impressions from the Bible pages,
or did they bounce it around the cabin?

I loved how that **** used to bounce like hell -- and you couldn't
really get it into a perfectly spherical ball, of course, so it'd
bounce at really weird unexpected angles, too.


Don't ever get it in your hair.

Pat

"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
...

I loved how that **** used to bounce like hell -- and you couldn't really
get it into a perfectly spherical ball, of course, so it'd bounce at
really weird unexpected angles, too.


Don't ever get it in your hair.

which is less and less probable for many of us

On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 13:36:08 -0500, Terrell Miller wrote:

Don't ever get it in your hair.

which is less and less probable for many of us

Beards, however...

--
Chuck Stewart
"Anime-style catgirls: Threat? Menace? Or just studying algebra?"

Chuck Stewart wrote:

which is less and less probable for many of us



Beards, however...



"Within this vale of toil and sin, your head grows bald, but not your chin."
"Said Farmer Brown, who's bald on top 'Wish I could rotate the crop' "
Burma-Shave slogans ;-)

Pat

On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 17:00:38 -0600, Pat Flannery
wrote:

"Within this vale of toil and sin, your head grows bald, but not your chin."
"Said Farmer Brown, who's bald on top 'Wish I could rotate the crop' "
Burma-Shave slogans ;-)

Don't waste your flames
all good and well
on lost Brad Guth
who's going to Hell!


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