NASA questions Apollo 13 commander's sale of list
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MIAMI (AP) -- NASA is questioning whether Apollo 13 commander
James Lovell has the right to sell a 70-page checklist from the flight
that includes his handwritten calculations that were crucial in guiding
the damaged spacecraft back to Earth.
The
document was sold by Heritage Auctions in November for more than
$388,000, some 15 times its initial list price. The checklist gained
great fame as part of a key dramatic scene in the 1995 film "Apollo 13"
in which actor Tom Hanks plays Lovell making the calculations.
After
the sale, NASA contacted Heritage to ask whether Lovell had title to
the checklist. Greg Rohan, president of Dallas-based Heritage, said
Thursday the sale has been suspended pending the outcome of the inquiry.
The checklist, he said, is being stored for now in the company's vault.
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