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NASA is selling space gold:\u00a0GOLD PLATES, 6,015.5 GRAMS – General Services Administration<\/a><\/p>\n

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Robert Pearlman explains how the gold came to fly in space:\u00a0Digging for space history in surplus sale of NASA-flown gold – collectSPACE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NASA is selling space gold:\u00a0GOLD PLATES, 6,015.5 GRAMS – General Services Administration Robert Pearlman explains how the gold came to fly in space:\u00a0Digging for space history in surplus sale of NASA-flown gold – collectSPACE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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-9700","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-2ws","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5893,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5893","url_meta":{"origin":9700,"position":0},"title":"Space policy discussion on NPR radio","author":"TopSpacer","date":"January 2, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"[ Update: Report on the program: Garver: NASA should cancel SLS and Mars 2020 - Space Politics Garver Would Cut SLS, Mars 2020; Says Space Isn't Partisan, But Parochial - SpacePolicyOnline.com Lori Garver says NASA should not build the SLS: \u201cWhere is it going to go?\u201d - SciGuy\/Houston Chronicle ]\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Space Policy"","block_context":{"text":"Space Policy","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=7"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12929,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=12929","url_meta":{"origin":9700,"position":1},"title":"Space history: Bonhams memorabilia auction + Start space collecting + Smithsonian’s Apollo 11 collection & 3D model","author":"TopSpacer","date":"July 22, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Bonhams in New York City held a\u00a0\"Space History\" auction\u00a0on Wednesday:\u00a0The space auction where a Sputnik model goes for $269,000 -\u00a0The Verge\u00a0(lots of pictures included) More than 280 items were for sale at Bonhams; all told, they racked up a combined total of $1,315,063. 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