[HN Gopher] Steve Jurvetson's personal collection of Apollo Luna...
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Steve Jurvetson's personal collection of Apollo Lunar Module parts
Author : gessha
Score : 76 points
Date : 2024-05-28 17:03 UTC (5 hours ago)
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| iancmceachern wrote:
| I've seen these personally, I have a bunch of pictures too.
| Thanks to my friend Jack!
|
| I think the coolest things were:
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| A piece of the Hindenburg The lunar module computer The big
| rocket engine with the hand welded cooling tube making up the
| rocket nozzle. Truly amazing to see the workmanship up close.
| consumer451 wrote:
| Here is a two-part tour of the collection via Scott Manley's
| YT.[0] There is more than just Apollo stuff. According to the
| first video, the most expensive acquisition was a shovel which
| was used to dig/scoop on the moon.
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| There is also a request for information about an old Soviet data
| storage device which neither Steve nor Scott knew anything
| about.[1] If anyone has any ideas, I'm sure they would appreciate
| a comment or email.
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| [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjoSCPIjVwg
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| [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK6Fn5iWSHQ
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| [1] https://youtu.be/MK6Fn5iWSHQ?t=1068
| dmix wrote:
| I like how excited Steve is explaining this stuff
|
| kid in a candy store
| aftbit wrote:
| Lots of this stuff has ended up at CuriousMarc's lab, for
| restoration and archiving. I strongly recommend his YouTube
| channel if you're into electronics tinkering and/or Apollo.
| mmastrac wrote:
| CuriousMarc has been repairing some of Steve Jurvetson's pieces
| on YouTube. Fascinating work.
|
| I hope that this collection finds its way to the public museums
| in the future where it can be maintained in perpetuity. The
| current curator seems to care deeply about it and it would be
| amazing if that continues for future generations.
| nordsieck wrote:
| > I hope that this collection finds its way to the public
| museums in the future where it can be maintained in perpetuity.
|
| Public museums are not _bad_ per se, but they have a lot of
| disadvantages.
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO6F9CfgMg4
|
| My summary of the argument:
|
| * Modern museums tend to cater to the general public, which
| means interesting and unique pieces that are of primary
| importance to experts in the field are often not on display.
|
| * Private collectors are often better at making their
| collections available in meaningful ways.
|
| * The bulk of a museum's collection tends not to be displayed
| at any one time.
|
| Of course, it's a risk if he were to transfer his collection to
| another private individual - a museum is the safer option. But
| I don't think the decision clear cut either.
| Arainach wrote:
| >Private collectors are often better at making their
| collections available in meaningful ways.
|
| Citation very much needed. The vast majority of items in
| private collections, including the entirety of the vast
| majority _of_ private collections, are unknown, uncatalogued,
| and utterly unavailable.
| asddubs wrote:
| yeah, this reeks of confirmation bias. It's cool that Steve
| Jurvetson lets CuriousMarc play with his collection to this
| extent, and what we got out of it has been amazing, but I
| don't assume this to be the general case.
|
| Counterexample: The AGC they restored was sold and then
| never heard from again. Of course it must be said that they
| had the opportunity to restore it to begin with because it
| was privately owned. Although if you're into vintage
| computing, you'll see there's also museums who loan out
| pieces to youtubers to restore/make videos about.
| Animats wrote:
| Museums have been dumbed down. The Henry Ford museum near
| Detroit was once aimed at people like Henry Ford, who liked
| the engineering. Glass cases with "Capacitor, Cornell-
| Dublier, 1944". That sort of thing. I once spent about
| fifteen minutes figuring out a piece of machinery which
| turned out to be a combination camera/kinescope scanner for
| rotating disk television. It was labeled something like
| "Scanner, Baird system, ca. 1935". That was dumbed down some
| time in the 1980s.
|
| The Smithsonian's Museum of History and Technology had some
| original ENIAC panels, powered up! You could push buttons and
| make them count. They had a huge collection of clock
| escapements, which they kept wound. An Atlas Guidance
| Computer with someone who operated it once an hour. The
| original Perceptron. Now it's the Museum of American History,
| and much simplified.
| BryantD wrote:
| Private collectors can be great, but the risk of collections
| in private hands being dissolved on death is substantial. I
| say this as a Seattle native who's been saddened by what
| happened to Paul Allen's various collections after his
| passing.
| naves wrote:
| I've been lucky enough to see in person many of these pieces when
| they were exhibited in DFJ's offices in Sand Hill Road
| (~2017-2018). It's an extraordinary collection.
| belter wrote:
| The tour is amazing: https://youtu.be/4FOF0f70Hoc
|
| Back in the Sixties the Russians already had two secret space
| stations in orbit with working machine guns:
| https://youtu.be/4FOF0f70Hoc?t=408
| dgacmu wrote:
| FV was our seed-round VC, and I snagged a set of photos if anyone
| wants more -- though they're not nearly as good as Steve's photos
| in the link above!
|
| https://photos.app.goo.gl/uPBt1z3UnLxoSx9P7
|
| But I really liked the spacex honeycomb lander leg that I didn't
| see in the flickr set.
|
| It's a truly amazing collection.
| Quai wrote:
| I'm not a jealous person. I dont want his money.
|
| But his collection of space things? Oh, I'm green with envy!
| sema4hacker wrote:
| I wish the captions would just stay on instead of fading in and
| out.
| spoonjim wrote:
| Crazy that you can sexually harass women and buy up one of the
| world's amazing collections of space exploration artifacts. Karma
| is such a laughable concept
| pinewurst wrote:
| Don't forget shilling for Theranos:
| https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-19/early-the...
| dgacmu wrote:
| I don't think this is a great place to re-litigate this, but I
| believe DFJ's investigation found a pattern of affairs, but not
| harassment.
|
| https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2017/11/18/steve-jurvets...
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| Which, eh, in my mind, harassment deserves heavy consequences
| but that also necessitates being careful to differentiate.
| fnord77 wrote:
| > While there were allegations of inappropriate behavior, DFJ
| did not receive an official complaint of harassment or
| misconduct.[28][29] While the findings of the investigation
| were not made public, anonymous sources alleged that the
| investigation "uncovered behaviors by Jurvetson that were
| unacceptable related to a negative tone toward women
| entrepreneurs.
|
| So anyway, what do you think should happen to him? All his
| possessions seized? Life in prison?
| stvswn wrote:
| The only misconduct _alleged_ is that he had extramarital
| affairs and led women on:
|
| "Those sources said DFJ's external investigators at the law
| firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett discovered from at least two
| women -- who confirmed their accounts to Recode -- that
| Jurvetson had allegedly carried out affairs with multiple women
| simultaneously. Some of the women also said they felt led on by
| the married man and were unaware of the other relationships."
| https://www.vox.com/2017/11/18/16647078/steve-jurvetson-dfj-...
| fnord77 wrote:
| "Andy Weir, author of The Martian, holds a Mars rock for the
| first time"
|
| um...
| mulmen wrote:
| It's part of a meteorite.
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