{"id":17761,"date":"2019-02-07T10:47:39","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T15:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=17761"},"modified":"2019-02-07T10:47:39","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T15:47:39","slug":"reality-tv-program-space-dealers-explores-the-space-memorabilia-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=17761","title":{"rendered":"Reality TV program &#8220;Space Dealers&#8221; explores the space memorabilia market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix is now streaming the program <a title=\"Productions - WAGTV\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wagtv.com\/shows\/detail\/showid\/68\">Space Dealers<\/a>, which follows three people who buy and sell <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hobbyspace.com\/Collecting\/index.html\">space memorabilia and collectibles<\/a> full time: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.collectspace.com\/news\/news-020419a-space-dealers-netflix-series.html\" target=\"_d\">&#8216;Space Dealers&#8217; brings the space memorabilia market to reality TV | collectSPACE<\/a> &#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Two years after it launched into a broadcast orbit around the world, &#8220;Space Dealers&#8221; has landed in the United States.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>The reality TV show, which follows the exploits of three NASA-obsessed space memorabilia sellers, began streaming on Netflix in the U.S. and UK on Friday (Feb. 1). The six-part series, produced by WAGTV, first aired in 2017 in Australia and has in the interim been seen across Europe and Russia.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NMJI27DZZbU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>&#8220;For the right price, America&#8217;s leading space dealers will sell you anything and everything that the men and women with the &#8216;right stuff&#8217; have used on their brave adventures in space,&#8221; writes the producers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>&#8220;Space Dealers&#8221; lightly parodies the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.collectspace.com\/news\/news-110518a-neil-armstrong-auction-results.html\">real-life trade in NASA artifacts<\/a> and Soviet-era space hardware. The rivalry between bowtie-sporting Larry, former NASA employee Torie and well-connected Cole sets up the drama, but it is the objects that they handle and the astronauts who they visit who are the stars of the show.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.collectspace.com\/news\/news-020419a-space-dealers-netflix-series.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"17762\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?attachment_id=17762\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/SpaceDealersTVShow_1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1920,1080\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Space Dealers TV Show\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/SpaceDealersTVShow_1-1024x576.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-17762\" src=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/SpaceDealersTVShow_1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/SpaceDealersTVShow_1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/SpaceDealersTVShow_1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/SpaceDealersTVShow_1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/SpaceDealersTVShow_1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">====<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=hobbyspace&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/b?_encoding=UTF8&amp;tag=hobbyspace&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;linkId=83bcfeddf696d358f69568254bcd9ce9&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;node=172282\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Check out the Best Selling Electronics at Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix is now streaming the program Space Dealers, which follows three people who buy and sell space memorabilia and collectibles full time: &#8216;Space Dealers&#8217; brings the space memorabilia market to reality TV | collectSPACE &#8211; Two years after it launched into a broadcast orbit around the world, &#8220;Space Dealers&#8221; has landed in the United States. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=17761\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reality TV program &#8220;Space Dealers&#8221; explores the space memorabilia market<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-space-collecting"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-4Ct","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13412,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13412","url_meta":{"origin":17761,"position":0},"title":"Astronaut memorabilia auction supports U.S. Space Walk of Fame Museum","author":"TopSpacer","date":"October 24, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"The\u00a0U.S. Space Walk of Fame Museum\u00a0in Titusville, Florida is holding its annual\u00a0Charity Auction: The Space Walk of Fame Charity Space Memorabilia Auction takes place on Oct. 29. 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