Okay, we're live. I'm gonna give this a couple minutes. Well, we wait for more people to show up But I guess I'll start with the introduction of what this quick sort of impromptu live stream is Hey everyone, welcome to you guys have seen the vintage space set welcome to the vintage space set I am sitting on the couch that is usually behind me and what I want to do today a lot of people a lot of you guys have asked me to do to go do a video about all the astronautographs that I have and I Thought that would be like the most boring video in the world Because I'd be standing there showing you a bunch of things I thought it would be a lot more fun if I actually just took you through my collection and showed you My astronautographs because I actually do you have a pretty phenomenal and I apologize in advance This one might get a little bit. I'm gonna try to make this as unmotion sickness-inducing as possible But it's a it's a large wall behind me And I'm gonna have to get up on my couch to show you exactly what's on my wall So, yeah, I have had a chance to meet a number Let's try to get that angle of a better Pete. Sorry. I should show you guys Pete. Let's see Can I turn the video around? Let's see if I can there's the video. Oh, there's my finger There's Pete lounging on my new ottoman. He is just he's loving it And I think that might be his new favorite spot. So Pete Pete will probably make an offense He might actually come join me on the couch in a second. There he is There's sneaky Pete. All right, so you guys have asked a lot that how I've come to have a collection of astronautographs A lot of it is honestly I have gone to events like Space Fest, which is it was it's in Tucson most years It was in Pasadena three years ago, but astronauts give talks and they're on panels and they all do signings So what that means is you line up and you get a chance to talk to them for a few minutes and you can buy an autograph and I've done that because I love these guys and I want to add to my collection So I've met a lot of a lot of them have been at signing events And a handful of them have been you know I've I've met them at a conference and they're kind of willing, you know after after a talk or something They're willing to kind of just sign something for my personal collection and and it's it's always very nice and very Appreciative and a few of my autographs. I'm actually I don't think any of the ones I have here I think any of the ones I have here I bought online, but I have bought some online just uh, sorry the glare Do that Um, I don't know how to get that. There's a glare. Nope. I'm not gonna be able to anyways I'll move around so it won't be as glaring in a second. Um, but I bought some I bought some signed like old copies of books that have been signed from from astronauts and use bookstores or even just eBay Those are all actually still at my parents house because I sort of never officially moved out I just kind of moved and still have like a whole bunch of stuff and my parents has including my copy of My copy of Lost Moon by Jim Lovell and Jeff Kluge is there It's actually I bought it used online and it was signed by Jim Lovell. So that's kind of awesome I have a copy of Gene Cernan's Last Land on the Moon that is also signed signed to Daisy But that's you know, that still counts. I have that at home and I have a gem Oh, I can't remember the name of his biography off top of my head his memoirs Jim Irwin from Apollo 15 I do have a copy of Jim Irwin's memoirs that I bought on the unused bookstore signed So I can't show you guys those but I'm gonna show you guys we're gonna start with the wall So here's gonna be the slightly nauseating bit because I'm gonna stand up on my couch To show you guys exactly what the wall looks like and then I'll go through each of the each of the Photographs each of the things and tell you guys kind of if I have a good story about them And I've got and then I've got a bunch to show you that I have not yet hung Because I'm kind of in the process of moving some furniture around in here to get it to be a little bit Homey or more comfortable. So let's start. I'm gonna start by doing one of these I'm just gonna show I'm gonna not show you guys the super mess. Yes. Okay, so here's the wall that you guys see in the back One of my videos Sorry, there's track lighting up on the ceiling that I can't move because I'm short So it's kind of obscuring some of those with the glare, but this is what the wall looks like Yeah, every one of these things is actually signed by an astronaut a lot of them are lunar Or Apollo era and it's kind of an awesome collection. So let's we're gonna turn back to me. Okay. There we go And we're gonna go to the couch and by that I mean to the things that are above the couch Okay, this is gonna be awkward. We're gonna start we're gonna start with the one up here. Oh, this is really really tough Okay angles. There we go. Okay, so this might be kind of glaring and I can't see the comments that you guys are Saying right now, but this is a shot of Mission control right after Apollo 13 landed and it's signed by Jerry Griffin right here with his thumb up and Glen Leni who is standing right next to Jane Kranz. I would love I would love to have Jean Kranz added to that To that picture don't know that I'll ever get a chance But if I do and I remember to bring that picture with me, I'll totally add him to that But so this one I met I Met both Jerry Griffin and Glen Leni at an astronaut scholarship Let's see if I can ankle that so you guys can see it better at an astronaut scholarship foundation event like Five years ago And I just got a chance to talk to both of them And I've spent a bit of time with both of them at various events and stuff And they're both just like awesome lovely guys and they were willing to sign that for me So I kind of have this this gorgeous shot of like what it looks like the celebration moment when Apollo 13 Splashed down signed by two of the flight controllers who helped actually save the mission So that was actually one of my first autographs And one of my favorites just because it was one of my first Flight directors just as a little side note if anybody ever goes to one of those autograph shows Flight directors are always Less expensive than astronauts, you know astronauts are the ones that went to the moon So when I started that was what I could afford and it was very exciting to me so my first like big kind of Syncing some money into my astronaut collection was this piece right here. This is my favorite I'm gonna turn the camera around Okay, wait, let's see Camera around okay, so you can kind of see it. Sorry guys. It's gonna be glaring When I had this framed I opted not to go with museum glass because it was crazy expensive But okay, so we have Jim McDivitt who was on Apollo 9 and Gemini for Vance brand on Apollo Soyuz Walt Cunningham from Apollo 7 Fred Hayes from Apollo 13 and Dick Gordon from Apollo 12 now. Let's see Okay, I understand the I don't know so I think I think I should not show you my messy apartment I think Canadians as a rule. Oh great. You can see me standing at the reflection that I think Canadians as a rule They have a very very bad sense of what irony is because of Alanis Morcette So I don't know if it's the irony of it or just the fact that it's kind of funny that none of the people on this Actually went to like these are the people that went to or didn't walk on the moon Signing the earth rise, but that's okay I Wanted like a neutral picture that I could have a bunch of people sign and kind of have a really nice Center point to autographs because I want something that would just be kind of big and awesome So this was this was like the first kind of big financial commitment. I made into my astronaut collection I've met well I've met all these people a number of times at this point for those of you who saw my live stream from Space Fest When Dick Gordon sees me he just looks at me and says what do you want now food girl? Because he I always ask him about food things mainland Apollo 12. So that's why you can see the inscription Let's see angle it. This is tough You can see he wrote no sandwich I got that so the first time I met Dick Gordon. I asked him about The there's a picture of pecan red the morning that Apollo 12 launched to the moon and a suit tech is just shoving What looks like a sandwich into his like pocket and there is no record of it There's no mention of it in any NASA source or any biography So I asked who else would know but dick Gordon to now be and so I actually asked them about it And he told me I have a video about this if you guys want to search it on my channel if you look up sandwich You'll find it. I think so he told me that's because they had a very That a very busy day they launched and you know sort of going into Like not even a lot of orbits They didn't have a lot of time to wait before they did the transliterate injection burn And then had to turn around and pick up the lunar module on the way to the moon They didn't have a lot of time to eat They were going to wait for their eat period. So they had a sandwich in their leg pocket So they'd be able to To just grab something really quick while they were working So no one had asked a Gordon about the sandwich apparently so he wrote no sandwich on my on my thing So the other people here. I mean Jim McDivitt Jim McDivitt friend who's ever met him is He's one of those guys that like he's in his 80s But he kind of get the feeling that he's very much just mentally and emotionally in his 30s He's just a firecracker. He's kind of awesome and like yeah He he took the piss out of me one day for a lot of a better term He schooled me and in orbital rendezvous. So I done a video Ages and ages ago like I've already done the video on the blog since after I met with Jim McDivitt about this It's I think it's in Jean Francis. Yeah, it's in Jean Francis memoirs. He talks about the rendezvous and station keeping on Gemini for and he describes it as Jim McDivitt's pilot instincts kicking in such that he couldn't rendezvous So basically when you're in orbit if you speed up it actually Increases your orbit your orbit gets higher and that takes you further away from your target if your targets in the same plane So you have to do with orbital rendezvous It's actually slow down and pass in front of it and then speed up to kind of come back and meet it in orbit If you guys have questions about that leave them in the comments and I could do a whole separate video Because I don't know if I've ever actually done a video about that rendezvous. But anyways Jean Krantz describes it as being Jim McDivitt not be like pilot instincts kicking in and not really understanding how orbital rendezvous works And Jim McDivitt apparently really hates that that's published So I sat down and he like gave me a lesson on orbital rendezvous and I have pictures of it somewhere My friend mark took pictures of those Mark is the photographer for space fest. He's taken all the fun pictures of me and me and Warden whose autograph we're getting to so yeah, I got them. I got Jim McDivitt's autograph and that was fun Walt Cunningham I spoke to you about Apollo 7 stuff. Obviously he was the He was the leader module pilot on Apollo 7 even though there was no lunar module But because I worked on Don Isley's memoirs or wrote the historical context section this very brief little bit in that book we talked about We talked about that mission and kind of what it meant for him and what his own personal feelings were because of course That's not in the memoirs at all It's it's about Isley it can't really be about any other human So that's kind of that was my fun challenge and kind of writing that and I was excited to just dig into that The human side from everyone else's perspective And memories when I was working on that um Vance brand was telling me stories when I got this autograph He was telling me stories about what it was like training because he was on Apollo so he's the first joint mission with the soviet union. He was telling me about like Weird things weird customs or weird to american customs that they kind of had a crash course in um When they were training for Apollo stories and he just said that there was there was one day that they were uh They were driving along the side of the road or they were just driving driving to some training thing And they just everyone pulled over and pulled out of thermos and started drinking and they thought it was coffee But it turned out to be vodka like 10 a.m. He's like yep There was all kinds of things that we just so foreign to us But we really got into it and I think you told me that um There was one banquet. Oh, I can't remember what the animal was it was like a goat or a sheep that they had at a banquet and um The delicacy was the eyes and they were left the americans were allowed to eat the eyes And he said it was one of the the those moments of sort of we're not not quite culture shock But sort of like this is different. This is different. Um, so he had some fun stories about that and uh Fred haze fred haze, um, if anybody ever has a chance to Meet him is one of the nicest guys ever. He's just like so So chill and so fun. I actually had a really interesting conversation with fred haze not when I got this autograph um, but uh About sort of what would happen if a couple got married in space? Where would the marriage be legal and what would happen if you got divorced in space? I can't remember why we even brought this up But I just like had this really long conversations about the legalities of marriage and space with fred haze and a couple other people and it's like I would never think that I'd be sitting and talking to um, to an apollo astronaut about things like the legality of space-officiated marriages um, because people are obviously like wanting to do that right people people with uh, you know the The private space flight companies and stuff like you can even if you're sort of like doing Uh, a parabolic suborbital flight and you get like 10 minutes at the top you could totally Totally get married in space that way. Um, so I think that's kind of how that came up Okay, um, we're gonna go over To this side so that I can start sitting down because my arm is getting tired holding the phone. Okay, so sorry This light is ridiculously bright. Um, I'm gonna turn the camera around and hope that I can actually get Uh get this. Okay, so Let's try it. All right. So this one, uh There's a lot of glare. Sorry guys. This is charlie duke the lunar module pilot of apollo 16 Uh charlie is another one of those guys who is just so Nice. I'm sorry. I can't get the glare. Okay there. Is that better? I can't hold it like this But there you can get uh, you can get a shot of it sort of you can kind of see the autograph right up there Um, so charlie duke is one of those another one of those like ridiculously There we go is one of those ridiculously nice guys.  Um Really really nice guy really just happy to chat about all kinds of Things about about space about history about you know, americana.  Let's see. What else? Okay um I'm as well. This is uh rusty schweigert right here from apollo nine. I love this picture during the space walk um, rusty famously was kind of sick during uh During the early phase of apollo nine and they almost cancel the eva with then he uh, he did it he ended up going outside and um I think he was the one that had a couple moments of actual free time on an eva When uh, dave scott had to change a film reel I met rusty very very Very much in passing. I had met him at a b612 event, which is the um a private company that's looking to do uh asteroid detection stuff. Um I met him there sort of in passing to the point where he sort of like oh you look familiar But uh, don't don't know him super well But we talked about how we should make him the uh the poster boy for the earth not getting smashed by rocks Um, I thought that'd be a fun a fun like byline for his business card, but rusty's and all these guys are are quite nice um, okay moving down Okay, good. I can sort of slightly rest Um, al warden. I love this picture. Um, this is al warden during the deep space eva on apollo 15 he was the command module pilot of apollo 15 and um You guys notice a lot of these pictures are people in spacesuits that are just kind of iconic of the mission I kind of love this one. I I think I put this down on his table and was like, hey, can you sign this picture of your butt in space for me? um I'll turn her back around this way. Uh, okay. Um, this light is real. It's usually fine. Um, oh, that's throwing my messy house Then I'll leave it this way. Um so Al warden is um, if anyone's never met him at all he is So, oh, uh, those are I believe those are rivets, but it might be paint bubbling off in the sun Someone just asked about the the bubbles right here. Um So He's one of like he's he's awesome.  So just um a couple years ago. It's first time in the owl um He I walked down the elevator to in at space fest during the uh, the bank or not the banquet the cocktail night cocktail reception the first night and um I Walked down. I see francis and he waves and says ala. This is the amy that I've told you about and then al warden gave me a hug And I was just like aw So now al warden is just one of those people who's always just like Cool to chat too. Um, that's the best part.  Okay moving down Dave scott I love this picture of Dave scott from polo nine um So I think I've told you guys that like the best thing to do with astronauts is honestly to uh To not ask them the same questions. They always get okay. I'm gonna turn this back on me for a second here. Okay Uh, that light is still kind of blinding. Okay. So because this is a good story um, so I feel like there are so many people who you know, they they asked to ask much question Like what was it like in space and you you can kind of see like I mean I've asked those questions too Everyone wants to know right but I kind of if I've got if I know somebody is like not Necessarily like they look tired or something. I'll ask them something a bit more fun to try to like Like just get them to relax Which is like a weird way to think about amazing like people that have inspired me my whole life So I got this picture.  They are alpha men now like they still kind of have that They kind of still have that um That aura to them. It's like it's kind of awesome and intimidating. I don't know it's fun So I put that picture down the table and I just like put it down and I slid across and I said If I may say so good, sir Can I just tell you that you are a total heartthrob and he's like I'll talk to you And we ended up talking about uh different faces of of missions and sort of what what each one was like from a pilot's perspective because I You know, they're all these guys were all pilots in that era But a lot of them don't necessarily equate flying spacecraft to flying aircraft and I was curious and I asked him We were just kind of chatting about a bunch of stuff and I asked him at one point What was the best to fly? I mean you've flown Dozens or maybe even hundreds. I'm not sure off top of my head. Um different types of vehicles What's the best and he said the lunar module on fumes that nothing Nothing was as responsive Or it's fun to fly as the lunar module ascent stage when it was almost empty because you would just Like tap it and it would just respond immediately I thought that was such a great little anecdote to get from him. I would never have thought of that I I don't even think I mean I've read so many these biographies like I'd never seen that So I thought that would that was kind of a neat one. I was really glad I kind of got to break down Breakthrough to Dave Scott for like half a minute just to kind of have that moment with him So that was kind of fun. Okay, and then the last one on this wall. I'm going to turn this back around And show you okay. This is a really awkward spot relative to okay So it's this so this is actually I've done a video about this But this is a piece of the Gemini two heat shield now Gemini two was an unmanned mission But still that was in space and it was the first piece of like flown space artifact that I bought And then I had it signed so the top signature up there is uh tom stafford And then under there we've got one how many one two three four five. Um gemini engineers So this is uh the top is dean party. I can't bob shep Um Jerry roberts. I can't norm betchell and I can't earl rob Remember I'm sorry like remembering back to that panel that I moderated. So I moderated a panel. Um at the isc conference and I You guys know So you guys know that I have a gemini regalo tattoo. Um, I love the gemini programs I was so excited to meet these guys and to have a chance to actually talk to them. Whoo, there we go Have a chance to talk to them. Whoo That's my silver play button to have a chance to talk to them about what they did and and to Just get a chance, you know, I I showed them this at the end and they're sort of like, wow, you're you're real Like you're serious. And I was like, yeah, I'm huge gemini fan And they were they were nice enough to sign that for me just for my collection. Um, so that's a huge I They were so nice and so knowledgeable and so fun. So that's one of my favorite pieces just because it was also like this this amazing moment that I got to do I got to you know Moderate a panel of these amazing pioneers of the early space age. So that was a lot of fun Okay, so We've got Um, oh, yeah, and then I've got here. These are these are like neat, but maybe less interesting But I've got here. I've got two posters from the adam young, uh, soundtrack series He did he did scores for historic events every month last year The ones from project at celestian voyager one are awesome and the the posters that I bought are signed Um, so that's fun. Okay, so we're gonna go over here because I've got one thing on this wall Infamous albin poster Okay, so here I'll close up on the signature. Sorry. I've got that light on in the background. Um Again didn't spring for the museum glass on this. Um, so you can see his signature here It's a poster. It's just a poster. Um that I had signed. Um, this is the one that I moved I I moved from the background to kind of create a different look Um, but this one sits by my desk all the time and I love it So albin is another one of those guys who's pretty pretty cool Once you sort of like once you hang out with him a little bit He he does take he's really good at like taking the time to actually Talk to people when you come up. I mean, even though you're you know buying an autograph Um, they these guys are really good at recognizing that like I'm gonna put this down So I have to hold it. Okay there these guys are all really great at recognizing that like What they've done even though for them it was a job like they know they're Historically important. Um, so they're really great about taking some time to to really talk to you And it's just like it's amazing. I mean albin that that is um A poster based on one of his paintings. Um, I stood next to him while he was talking to an artist Who was he was kind of talking about like his own artistic process that he does Whenever he paints like the lunar module, for example He'll do like an intricate technical drawing and then over top of that take his artistic license with paint And it was sort of interesting to hear an engineer talk about art And it's just like he really takes the time to talk to you guys if you ever have a chance to meet albin at one of those events, um, he's he'll he'll He'll really give you like a really nice five minutes to kind of get to learn something about him. Okay So moving on to the things that I have not yet had a chance to hang because there's a lot of them I gotta I gotta fix some stuff. Um, okay, so Oh, I don't need this one not this one or that one I've got other things that don't need to go up on the wall. Okay. So this one Uh This I got signed at space as this past year. I've met so this is joe angle. He was um an x15 pilot and also flew the Approach and landing tests for the space shuttle um, so A lot of people don't really know joe angle because I mean I think honestly his most incredible thing was doing the x15 Um, and it's so funny. He doesn't know what if that was him or not But uh He you know, I asked him nobody know I mean, I could probably hunt it down if I wanted to but I just like didn't even care Um, this picture is awesome and joe angle is great. Um, so the first time I met joe angle The oh he did Did he he did come in the first shuttle mission he did With john young, right? Yeah Or was it just the approach? No, it was fred Hayes that did approach and landing tests only.  I know a few things I'm so much better on my pre-channel. Um So the first time I met joe angle. I asked him um like like Drop the the pilot which he's my first second How were you because I think his record altitude flight was something like oh it's krippin and young. Thank you Thank you. So joe angle. Did joe someone in the comments? Let me know Um, did angle just fly the approach and landing tests? I can't remember I can't remember. Okay. Thank you guys Bob and john young. I knew young was there. Um, okay So I asked him. I was like so his peak flight was something like three hundred and eighty thousand feet I was like you're in this thing if anyone's ever seen the x15 in um In a museum. It's 50 feet long.  I mean that's it like it's nothing and I was like, how could you be? um Three hundred thousand feet above the earth You can see the black and so space you can see the curvature of the earth And all you have to get yourself down safely Is the skill in one of your hands?  I think I've videoed part of that interview. This is like four years ago Um sts2 was your angle. Okay. Thank you. Um Yeah, I know I knew he was on I knew he did shuttle stuff. I'm just I've every time everything I've done with angle has been x15 related Um, so yeah, I got I got to add angles to my collection. Um, so I love that one. Okay, and up next we've got Um, I love this one too Dio Hera so Dio was the uh, the astronauts nurse. She was the the, um The head nurse for the astronauts during the apollo era. Um, she can't, you know Her everyone kind of knows her as uh, the mercury astronauts nurse mainly and they loved her because she was not a doctor She couldn't actually ground them So they were actually more honest with her about what was going on with their bodies and she knew more about them than most people Um, and they weren't scared of her because She couldn't take them out of flight status Um, so she wrote this to me too. Lovely Amy. Um Dio Hera astronaut nurse mercury through astp I met D actually the first time I met her I met her a year before I got this because she left space fest early Um, I Was wearing this yellow dress at the banquet for space fest It's this great thing that was my great aunts in the 70s and she just kind of wanders up And I you know, I know who she has been sort of like watching like she's talking to dick gordon I'm just like I still can't believe I'm with these people and uh, she comes over and just says I love that dress I said, I would just love to shake your hand I mean I ended up just chatting and she's and I had dinner with her at space this year Although it was awkwardly across the table and it's hard to talk, you know the big banquet tables But she's so nice, um, and just kind of awesome and donated all of the funds she raised to to uh, animal shelters So yeah, um, that's on my collection I also finally this year this was another one that I I didn't couldn't get Previous year, but Eileen Collins the first ever female shallow commander. Um, she was also Pretty pretty neat to talk to and um, I had that that interesting moment with her where um At all these events, um the astronauts will have handlers that kind of you know manage all the things like You know making sure their their needs are met and everything so that the astronauts can focus on meeting fans And her handler knew like was a fan of mine. I was like, well, that's thank you And then she's like Eileen you need to you know, Amy does great stuff And I was like, oh, thank you So we just end up talking a bit about sort of like how to get kids excited about space and stuff Um, so that was a really fun one. I had tried to meet her the year earlier at Space Fest, but couldn't uh, she She left, uh Before I was able to get get an autograph. So I was really happy to get her get this one. Um So this one too, I also just like let's just take a second and look at like the how gorgeous that picture is like the coloring of it I think she wrote on the back of its frame, but she obviously she wrote on the back of it that um, I think the picture was taken in 1990 she said so this was she had just started at NASA But she didn't even have a NASA issued flight suit yet. So she's still in her Air Force flight suit Um, so I thought that was kind of a great one. So that's that's um That's my Eileen Collins and then the last one I have from Space Fest this year um Hard to tell so Florida Because I needed something neutral because these are two of the mercury 13 Um, that is gene norageson and sarah rat ratley. I think her last susan wait. Yeah, sarah ratley I can't remember. I think I'm reading that right I would honestly have to double check her last name because their names kind of escape me sometimes Still getting familiar with them. But yeah, I got to meet two of two of the mercury 13 These guys these women.  They're whatever these guys because everyone's guys to me These guys were awesome and were sort of like I didn't have a lot of time to talk to them, which was really really sad um, but uh, they they did kind of tell me a few things about like What it was like going through it and how they were just like, yeah, it was tough But what do we care? We wanted to do it and they were just like it was just awesome to meet these women who are You know when they're late 70s or early 80s now I mean they're the same age as the you know the astronauts um And they were just so like yep We had we They were just like so chill and so happy to just be like, yeah, this was we of course we wanted to do that Like of course it was awful, but you know We would go ahead and grab a drink at the end of the day. So it was fine. I was just like, uh You ladies are human and it's awesome. So that was really really fun to actually get a chance. Um, however briefly I know I felt really bad. I was like, I'm not blessing their time, but um to to get a chance to meet them So I realized I forgot an autograph on this side before I show you a couple books But one of my favorites. So I I mentioned earlier that I have a um I have a gene serenade autograph my parents has I also have one here. I really I really love this picture. Um And I really wanted a gene serenade that was to me so you can see Hang on. Let's let's do it this way. Okay, so you can see, um See the autograph see the inscription And see if I can angle it so you can see the light so quite so there's the picture of him This was during gemini nine. This is right after the eva where he almost died Um, so the great those of you who don't know, um, this was kind of before nasa really understood how an eva would work They kind of forgot things like newton's third law that every time you kind of push one way Your whole person just goes the other way because you don't have the and he doesn't have to grab onto So on this eva he was trying to get to the back adapter section of the gemini spacecraft to recover. Um I forget what it's uh, it was like an early mmu. I think it might have. Oh, and I forgot prismacanis too Oh, yeah, I immediately went that way and forgot about this slide. Um, so to test like an early mmu a man maneuvering unit And uh, it was so hard He got so sweaty that the suits were air cooled at the time and it couldn't cool him effectively enough And um, he lost I forget off to have my head. I think I want to say it was something like two leaders of fluid from sweat or maybe it was one leader, but um Yeah, it was, you know, he he nearly died and this picture. Let's see. I can show you guys again this picture, um from gemini nine, um It's blurry and not it just looks he looks awful.   I came this was a few years ago I can't remember the details. I remember the first time I met gene sernan much better. Um This is another this is I've had odd conversations. I had a couple of odd ones with gene sernan But um the first time I'd met gene sernan Um was at an astronaut scholarship foundation event just in the bar in the hotel after dinner And um, I was sitting with a friend of mine bob and I we sat down and and gene was grumbling a little bit He was sort of annoyed that people were it was the 40 40 the anniversary of polo 17 And uh, he was annoyed that everyone was just praising him and how wonderful he was and I for some reason I just decided oh, I'll jump into the conversation This is this is six years ago and I was much shyer Um more shy I should say um, and I said well, you know In your defense a lot of people are talking about your potty mouth on apollo 10 where apollo 10 the the ray I think I have a video about this if not I should do one um when um They were doing the rendezvous after apollo 10's lunar module went down towards the surface Um And we're attempting to redock with the command module The there was something the antenna setting was wrong and it ended up tumbling towards the moon and someone yelled out son of a bitch And everyone was talking was talking about how great gene sernan was of course And then also how much of a potty mouth he he had on that mission So I sort of said, you know, they're they're tempering it with that um and uh And he said that wasn't me that was staffer that said it And I sort of said to him I was like actually I know because I read the transcript But at least people think it was you So that was weirdly the first conversation I ever had with gene sernan and the first time I think I ever actually Met an astronaut. I think it was before I actually started to went to the signing event that day Um, so that was kind of fun. That was a weird one. But um, yeah gene sernan I I'm you know every I'm seeing a lot of people talking about gene sernan here So yeah, who doesn't love gene sernan Definitely if you guys I what is the movie? Um last man on the moon, which is the uh Same as his memoirs a fantastic movie. I would recommend it. I think it might actually be on netflix Okay, so now we have books Um Oh, you guys know that p conrad's always my favorite. I just don't have I would love a p conrad But that of course i'm gonna have to buy so another one I um just because I I know francis and I know al um I did get both of them to sign my book as well my copy of falling to earth Um And he did write very nicely with my best wishes to a fellow author which is rich is really nice So I love having this one in my collection. Um, I also have let's see I met clay anderson You guys know you guys know i'm i'm less good on shuttle and he was really nice and I was like Hi, I do a polo era stuff Um, so he was he was nice. He signed this and we ended up chatting a bit and uh a lot I can't repeat a lot of the conversation um, but he did sign this one and he did kind of uh Yeah, he he sort of spoke candidly about a few things what it's like to be an astronaut and I'm I'm so I haven't had a chance to read this yet, but I'm so excited to read it. Um, because he He is pretty entertaining. Um, I kind of hung out with him and my friend chris callie who's an artist at space fest and uh Yeah, I got into some interesting areas of conversation again. I can't can't totally repeat on any of the things that we talked about Um, okay leaning and then this is I'm yeah, okay so this one Well, I'll add this one to the list. I don't know I'm gonna I'm gonna throw this one in there I got my copy of apollo 8 the new book on apollo 8, which you guys should read signed by jeff clicker um because I I'm such a huge fan of his and I'm very very honored to be able to consider him a friend now and um, you guys should read this book, but uh, yeah My copy of lost moon that signed by jim level looks just like this. Um, I gotta I gotta pick that up from my parent's house Okay, so this is one of my all-time favorites. This is actually the first asked um first astronaut autograph I got and um So I pitched this up at an astronaut scholarship foundation event for like 40 bucks It's a used beat-up copy of this new ocean, which is the official nasa history Um, I'm getting to my colons Which is the official nasa history of the mercury program Um, it is more than anything you ever need to know about mercury But there's one of these for every one of the programs and they're my favorite. I absolutely love these books and um scott carpenter was there And I actually he's the only mercury astronaut I've ever I ever got to meet And he signed it and I'm it was amazed. He was I want to say 89 that year and his penmanship Is so firm He had he had a very hard time hearing and it was sort of it was really it was tough They're so loud in there and I felt so bad But he was so he was really really nice and really like It was so nice to take the time to just sort of say so what do you do? And what do you what got you into space? It was just really really sweet So this is one of my my favorites that you know, you can you can find these autographs on the internet, but I love A lot of people always say, you know My my autographs are all you could see some of them some astronauts won't inscribe. They won't write anything to you Um, they'll only do a name and a lot of people like that because then you can solve them again And a lot of people have noticed that so many of mine have my name on them I get them to say, you know, if they're willing to to Amy best wishes or whatever Yes, I do have the book rocket man one of my favorites. Um, but I I don't care about the resale value. I Just I love having this for my own private collection So it's really, you know, even if this is a beat-up old book that's worth almost nothing with the signature in it This means so much more. Um, just because it is personalized by by an astronaut So every time I meet, you know, hang out with friends or see their books that are like You know, Michelle Evans, for example, who wrote the amazing book on the xf team. She is the xf team guru She has her her own copy of her book is signed by Every xf team pilot she ever had a chance to meet. I think all of them actually and engineers and anyone who worked on it It is like Oh, there's like 40 signatures in there. It's just like, oh, I'm just it's amazing So, um, I kind of wish I'd thought of doing that beforehand Like I just have one book and have it signed by everyone like this would be a great one to have signed by everyone But um, you know what? I kind of like building my wall of awesome up here. So this is kind of fun Okay, and I've got one one more autograph. Okay, so I've got one more that I forgot Because I haven't hung it yet and it's sort of sitting. There's the light. Um, it's sitting Here in paper to protect it. Okay. There's my kitchen. Sorry. Oh wait. Here's a good one This is an apollo 13 e-com hat signed by sigh lever got Um, he had like 15 of these made at one point. Um, and at space fest this year Last year he was selling them He you had to get it signed Um And he just wanted to get rid of them and I was like, this is actually kind of a great weird thing to have in my collection So I have an apollo 13 e-com hat signed by sigh lever got Um, I love that. It's such an odd odd thing, but I love it. Okay. So let's turn this around Are you a shot of a floor for a second? Sorry. This is awkward. I should have planned this one better guys. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Okay Not that one because that is a picture of the moon that a friend of mine took and had signed for me or had uh Praying for me this one. Okay Darn it. Sorry guys. Okay This is the one I want to show off. Sorry that was really awkward Finally got there. Mike Collins apollo 11. Okay. So there's the signature So I actually had this you guys might recognize this sort of um, this is You know that that famous picture where everyone in the earth everyone Whoever lived is in the picture except Mike Collins because he took it. Um, this is two frames before that So what I like about this picture, so it's right It's two frames. You can kind of see the earth is just just poking above the moon's limb Um, this is the moment that he called earth rise after apollo 11 left the surface So this is right when they're about to rendezvous. They're going into the rendezvous This was the moment that he was able to see the earth on the way down. Um I love this. So I actually had this printed and color corrected and um had it done in the biggest The largest size I could get with full resolution Um and had him sign it and I I love this one. It's just such a stunning It's a stunning picture and I'm really I haven't hung it yet because I'm trying to figure out where it goes in the wall Um, so yeah, that's one of my that's my newest addition And that's one of the ones that I'm working on figuring out where to go So all of these are eventually going to be added to the wall Um, it's just a matter of figuring out a where they should all go and b if I can find a ladder To get up there because I am short and can't necessarily actually get all the way up there. All right I think that's everything. Um, I think that's everything. I don't uh, yeah, I wish I had the um I'm sorry that I I don't have the books that are at my parents house the gym or in the gym level and the other Jeans are in stop Pete. Stop it. Stop it. Stop it. He likes to eat things I don't have any russian cosmonaut autographs. Um, I really my autographs are limited to how Well, I'm sorry. I gotta stop Pete from chewing on things because Pete likes to chew on things. Stop chewing on things Um, here, I'll show you guys this picture of the moon too. Why not? Um This is a friend of mine gave me this to celebrate finishing my book. Um It's just a gorgeous shot that he took of the full moon.  I still have I mean I haven't been to russia Because I don't have a way to get to russia yet. Um, eventually I'd like to you But yeah, I'm slowly kind of building out the collection, you know find things find neat things. Um online find You know meet somebody at a At a conference or something and kind of find that that person He's willing to just like give you a quick little signature on the side I know a lot of people don't like it and I always feel really really bad asking but um, you know like with with jeans are and I was really lucky to get that the um, His last space fest. So I just I can't I can't turn down Um, the opportunity to just have a quick, you know, even if it's just two minutes where I get to talk to them Um, and to have the signature To remember the story of when I met them and just have that little anecdote of like Dave scott Met Dave scott once and I told him he was a heartthrob and he laughed and it was like awesome Okay, I have that moment now. Um, so that's really what my odd my autograph collection is It's like the collection of Moments of people that I've met that have inspired me my whole life. So um, that's what that is That's my autograph collection. Um Sorry, sorry, it was a little bit Jumpy up there when I was holding the phone out and uh, sorry for that that awkward Mike Collins reveal there But I really want to show you guys that one Before I get it up on the wall, which I have to figure it out Um, okay Pete you want to come say bye? Or do you want to stare at me? Pete's over there sniffing my nature Okay, so I think that's it. Um Yeah, if you guys have, uh, any questions about, uh, any of the people I talked about I guess or anything you would like to Um, like see future, you know proper videos about, um, leave all that stuff in the comments Um, I would do of course you guys I have weekly regular videos. Oh are my degrees in it? No, um I have them here. I don't know if I want to do anything with them Well, actually I should show you guys this one I kind of forget about this one because it was in an envelope for so long But I got a a thing from nasa a group achievement award from new horizons for working on new horizons Um, I kind of want to put that up because it's kind of awesome to get a uh, a nasa thing Considering I know nasa give give gives these out to missions. I mean there's like what two I have a lot of stuff on dinosaur you guys, uh, if you google it if you look at look it up on my channel You'll find it. Um, but yeah, I think this is kind of neat. I mean, I know a lot of people at nasa who have these like What 200 500 people got these from new horizons, but like I don't work for nasa. It's kind of fun Um, and then I do I don't know I have it because I like have it in a frame because I had a frame with nothing in it Like I have my master's degree. I don't really want to put it up, but it's here Um, that's a thing. Um, those probably will go not on the wall of awesome because the wall of awesome is for awesome Astronauts. Um, that's fun a mission patch collection. I will show you guys my so yeah, right I should say it. So what I also want to know What else you guys want to see? livestreams of um So I am planning to do one I don't know if I'll be able to do it next week um or the week after because I'll be away for the eclipse um, but I do I am going to do an um a livestream is sort of some of the cool memorabilia I've I've acquired over the years some of it is uh, some of it is new some of it is very vintage some of it is really weird um A lot of neat models and sort of stuff that people have found in yard sales and I've collected Um, so i'm going to do a little bit of a tour of that Um, I can do a tour of like my cool space toys. I know I have a video about it But I've got more stuff now that I could share with you guys Um, so there's any stuff that you've sort of seen me using to demonstrate in videos or seen the background that you Want to know more about let me know and I can also do Um do a stream of that. Um, and I also was wondering what you guys think Yeah, I should ask you this uh directly if you guys think I've got a x1 Model kit that I haven't built yet because want to build it with me Um, I could do a live build of that too because that's kind of fun and uh, it'll be a lot of orange paint Um another museum tour. I'd love to um when I get to a museum Um So yeah, let me know if there's anything else you would like to kind of see a tour of I'll do any museums and stuff when I'm traveling as much as I can But for now, it's got to be stuff that I have in my house like all the cool memorabilia I've got and of course anything that you guys have questions about that I could make into future episodes And like I was saying um, I this channel still has normal Normal videos every single week. Uh, this week is going up either Wednesday or maybe Thursday depending on my internet upload speed Um, so yeah, I think that's I think that's everything I think that is uh the end of the tour of my awesome astronaut autographs So thank you guys so much for watching and uh, I hope you enjoyed this and I hope you guys if you have your own collections Um, I hope you you get as nerdy about it as I do because it's awesome to have walls of awesome All right. Thank you guys. Bye