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#1 2005-07-19 05:45:42
- Palomar
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Re: NASA Coins to be Minted
http://www.space.com/news/cs_050719_nasa_coins.html]To be issued in 2008
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The coins, to be issued in 2008, are to commemorate 50 years since the founding of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the opening of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). "Minting coins is a distinctive way to honor 50 years of dedicated service by the men and women of JPL and NASA," said Representative Adam Schiff, who was a co- sponsor of the Act and who represents the district where JPL is located.
Approved by House of Representatives on July 12.
The United States Mint came one step closer this week to striking a new series of gold and silver coins containing metal that flew on historic spacecraft.
The first $1 million raised as a result of the sale of these coins will go to the NASA Family Assistance Fund. This fund provides need-based financial assistance to the families of NASA personnel who die as a result of injuries suffered in the performance of their official duties.
Sounds good to me. 
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#2 2005-11-19 14:43:13
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Re: NASA Coins to be Minted
Good idea!
Maybe lunar platinum coins can jumpstart lunar exploration [exploitation]?
Give someone a sufficient [b][i]why[/i][/b] and they can endure just about any [b][i]how[/i][/b]
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#3 2005-11-22 06:03:15
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Re: NASA Coins to be Minted
*Bill wrote:
Good idea!
Maybe lunar platinum coins can jumpstart lunar exploration [exploitation]?
Perhaps. Of course there's Clark's thread on the matter. Sorry, I'm not up to that particular conversation currently (have had it a couple of times before, husband ill, trying to save a $1300 computer from a trojan-horse infection which nearly destroyed it, Thanksgiving preparations...).
I don't see any reason why the topic can't continue in Clark's thread. It is an interesting topic which I usually enjoy hashing out...but it's just not in me currently. 
Good luck and have fun to the participants in Clark's thread on the topic.
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#4 2005-11-22 06:52:58
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Re: NASA Coins to be Minted
When you say my name three times, I appear. 
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#5 2005-11-22 07:19:56
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Re: NASA Coins to be Minted
Coins not really a topic of exploition but rather one of creative finacing, thou coins minted off world would fall under the category. But really they are just collectibles all the same.
There was also mention from one of the mint locations for colectibles that a shuttle coin was being marketed. I wonder how well that went....
Next we will see halmark cards..
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#6 2005-11-22 07:45:56
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There was also mention from one of the mint locations for colectibles that a shuttle coin was being marketed. I wonder how well that went....
Next we will see halmark cards..
*Lol!
Not as the Shuttle goes. That cannot be placed under the Hallmark slogan "When you care enough to send the very best." 
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#7 2005-11-22 15:35:14
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Re: NASA Coins to be Minted
There was also mention from one of the mint locations for colectibles that a shuttle coin was being marketed. I wonder how well that went....
Next we will see halmark cards..
*Lol!
Not as the Shuttle goes. That cannot be placed under the Hallmark slogan "When you care enough to send the very best."
--Cindy
Shuttle orbiter: "When you care enough to send the very best."
Now that is funny. Well said!
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