Gordon Coopers LM Lunar Sample Blueprint Illustrates two pos

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Gordon Cooper's LM Lunar Sample Blueprint. Illustrates two positions of the Lunar Transfer Bag as located on an early drawing of what would later be known as the Modularized Equipment Stowage Assembly (MESA). The MESA was a pallet-type device and folded into the LM's descent stage for outward deployment by the crew on the lunar surface. Approximately 17x11 inches, pre-folded. Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp., 1964

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Inscribed and signed by Cooper with: "From my LM notebook, Gordon Cooper, Apollo X B.U. CDR, LM-4." Additionally signed and inscribed by: "Buzz Aldrin, LM-5, Apollo XI"; "Edgar Mitchell, LM-8, Apollo 14"; and Charles M. Duke, Jr., LM-11, Apollo 16."