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Estes “Follow Apollo”
Estes had a “Follow Apollo” promotion in during the Apollo lunar program. The idea being to launch a model rocket on the same day as a Saturn-V Apollo mission.
Seems like they mentioned it in Model Rocket News. But of the few scans of old issues I looked in, I do not see it there. Can anyone post a link to anything in MRN or elsewhere about Estes “Follow Apollo”? I did find a link to this brochure: The rest of the pages to it are found on a link on this page: http://www.vintageestesrockets.com/...tron-markII.htm But I do not recall seeing that brochure back then. I thought I saw Follow Apollo in MRN or some other Estes publication. For that matter, does anyone have a better scan of that brochure? The scan is pretty small, have to enlarge it to 200% for most of the text to be readable.
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George-
My memory of this is about the same as yours. I have the old issues of MRN and think this went about as far as the Cylon Raider kit did...a bit of hoopla then nothing.
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You should try filling out and sending in that application form. With a note apologizing that it got stuck on the bottom of your "to do" pile...for almost 46 years.
Heck, I wasn't even alive when Apollo 14 happened.
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MRN Vol 11 No 1 had a special 'Follow Apollo' order form insert, but no reference in the copy itself to 'Follow Apollo 14'.
MRN Vol 11 No 2 did have a short reference to 'Follow Apollo 15', with a suggestion to launch a rocket (any rocket, not necessarily a Saturn V) within two weeks of the planned launch date for Apollo 15 of July 26. Joe |
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This must be why I couldn't find the order form Vol 12 No 2 had a similar blurb about following Apollo 16. |
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Also: Vol 12 No 4 'Follow Apollo 17'.
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Follow Apollo stickers
I found a couple of Follow Apollo 14 stickers that
forum members might be interested in. |
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I saw a set of those stickers get bought recently on eBay. Was that you? |
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Yes that was me
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I am planning to follow Orion, at least the planned June launch of the Ascent-Abort-2 test, or as I like to call it, the Little Joe III.
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