Image from Zug.com.
Want a piece of classy retro porn that’s been around the moon? How does an exceedingly well-traveled image of DeDe Lind, Playboy’s Miss August 1967, sound? How about we add in a few Space LOLZ for good measure?
A short piece on Zug.com alerts me to the auction of memorabilia from the US Space Program, closing January 20 at RRAuction.com.
The saucy piece of va-va-va-voom at right was stashed in the Apollo 12 command module the Yankee Clipper, unbeknownst to the crew. It stowed away all the way through the module’s moon orbit in November, 1969. The “Dick” in question reportedly added the saucy inscription; that’d be Richard F. Godon, command module pilot, who relaxed with Ms. Lind’s fetching visage while Pete Conrad and Alan Bean descended to the surface in the lunar module, Intrepid.
The complete image comes from the Zug article; the auction site has even more thoroughly censored it. The latter describes it thus:
Measuring approximately 4.5 x 6.5, the topless image is an original taken from one of the 1969 calendars published by Playboy and features the month and year of the Apollo 12 mission—November 1969. Prior to the mission, it was affixed to a cardboard cue card and, unbeknownst to the crew, secreted onboard their spacecraft. Normal wear as one would expect from an object that made the approximately 475,000 mile round-trip journey to the moon and back, this flown iconic piece of 1960s pop culture still retains its Velcro strips which were used to affix it inside the spacecraft.
[Link.]
At press time, the bidding for the piece was up to $13,155.
Ms. Lind’s image wasn’t the only stowaway on Apollo 12; apparently the back-up crew had also reproduced Playmate images in the crew’s checklists with jokey sayings to provide their stressed-out compatriots with a few Space LOLZ.
Zug.com’s earlier article the top 3 NASA pranks actually mentions not only moon porn, but their April 1 proof of water on Mars. Laughing my space-ass off here, guys.
[Link to Boston Herald article on the auction.]
[Link to the auction, running through Jan. 20, 2011.]