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Old 11-29-2012, 05:03 PM
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Default NAR/Museum of Flight collaboration

This was in the latest Electronic Rocketeer which just arrived today:
Sport Rocketry's Museum

By Trip Barber

The NAR has just signed a partnership agreement with one of the nation's premier aerospace museums, the Museum of Flight (MOF) in Seattle, to make the MOF the official musuem of our hobby and our Association.

The Museum of Flight already has a nice display of a few of our founder G. Harry Stine's rockets. Under the new partnership, the NAR will work to identify and help the MOF collect a much wider range of the most historically important rockets, motors, publications, and other items from across the history of our hobby and the NAR, and to develop this material into a larger display, plus a permanent archive for historical reference by future generations. NAR and MOF also agreed as part of this partnership to conduct public workshops and special-event displays of current rocketry activities at the museum, as part of the museum's public education and outreach program.

This partnership is a step toward preserving our history that the NAR has been seeking for a long time, and that long-time NAR members Bill Stine and Pat Fitzpatrick have made happen after years of effort. If you have rocketry or NAR items of potential historical significance that you think might belong in the Museum of Flight, please contact Trip Barber or Bill Stine with a description. MOF has a collection process that could result in a tax-deductible contribution for the owner of collected objects, and we have agreed to serve as intermediaries to find and screen potential donations for MOF. The number one item on the collection target list is a full mint-condition set of issues of the old Model Rocketry magazine!

Interesting news, no?
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Old 11-29-2012, 06:39 PM
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Wonder if there would be any way to transfer (at least on a permanent loan basis) Stine's holdings currently in the hands of the Smithsonian?

Guess we need to drop a line to Craddock and see what he thinks....

Good news though certainly. Haven't read through my email in box yet to see my copy of the latest newsletter, so thanks for posting here.


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Old 11-29-2012, 07:36 PM
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We don't need to move collections, only double them.
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Old 11-29-2012, 07:43 PM
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We don't need to move collections, only double them.


Absolutely! I'd like to see collections in multiple locations, not just on a corner or two of the US. We have enough good stuff to put nice collections in KSC, JSC, MSFC, Kansas Cosmosphere, etc., etc., etc., and still have some left over for general aviation type museums.
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Yeah, whenever I feel the need to see a museum quality collection I'd drive to Huntington.
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Yeah, whenever I feel the need to see a museum quality collection I'd drive to Huntington.


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Old 11-29-2012, 11:16 PM
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We don't need to move collections, only double them.


The reason I mention the Stine holdings at the Smithsonian is that probably a decent amount of his items represent one-of-kind artifacts that probably cannot be duplicated by anyone (e.g., the very first MMI rocket set off the assembly line in Denver, etc.).

And if the Smithsonian is not gonna display them (and I assume they are not currently on active display) then let's move them somewhere that CAN display them.


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