Boeing Coin Club LUNAR ORBITER 1ST Flight 1966 1.5 oz silver coin APOLLO moon

Description

Up for bid is a commemorative Silver coin commissioned by the Boeing Coin Club of 1963. The coins from the Boeing Coin Club were bought from the employee’s club. I believe most of the Club Coins are 1.5 Troy OZ of silver.
The Coin Club coins are thicker than the other commemorative coins given away by Boeing.
This
coin is commemorating Boeing’s
Lunar Orbiter First Flight in 1966 I guess it was minted in 1985. Moon craters.
Coin has never been taken out of the
2 ½ x 2 ½ stapled coin holder. Thru protective plastic I can see very well marked
.999 F.S.
stamped on side of coin.
NOTE! As I was trying to see side of coin thru the protective plastic the
Plastic broke. I kept it in the broken sleeve and wrapped it in saran wrap. Only touched the side of coin.
The 1966 Lunar Orbiter 1 robotic spacecraft mission, part of NASA's Lunar Orbiter program, was the first American spacecraft to orbit the Moon. It was designed primarily to photograph smooth areas of the lunar surface for selection and verification of safe landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo missions. It was also equipped to collect selenodetic, radiation intensity, and micrometeoroid impact data.
Mission controllers injected the spacecraft into a parking orbit around Earth on August 10, 1966, at 19:31 UTC. The trans-lunar injection burn occurred at 20:04 UTC. The spacecraft experienced a temporary failure of the Canopus star tracker (probably due to stray sunlight) and overheating during its cruise to the Moon. The star tracker problem was resolved by navigating using the Moon as a reference, and the overheating was abated by orienting the spacecraft 36 degrees off-Sun to lower the temperature.
Lunar Orbiter 1 was injected into an elliptical near-equatorial lunar orbit 92.1 hours after launch. The initial orbit was 189.1 by 1,866.8 kilometers (117.5 mi × 1,160.0 mi) and had a period of 3 hours 37 minutes and an inclination of 12.2 degrees. On August 21, perilune was dropped to 58 km (36 mi) and on August 25 to 40.5 km (25.2 mi). The spacecraft acquired photographic data from August 18 to 29, 1966, and readout occurred through September 14, 1966.
McDonnell Douglas Stearman
Please check out my other Boeing commemorative silver coins. I will consolidate on shipping. Just let me know you are planning on bidding on other items once you win your first item and let me know when you are done bidding on others and I will revise the invoice.
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