Help Preserve Neil Armstrong's Space-Suit?

[jshell]

http://www.scotsman.com/news/sci-tech/crowd-fundin...

Apparently it's not in the best of states and urgently requires funding to enhance preservation.

[R8Steve]

I'm sure NASA has the means to scrape some money together to preserve it. That's probably the cost of 1 bolt in their space programme.

[Eric Mc]

It's not owned by NASA - and they have to watch their pennies like any government agency these days.

It's now owned by the National Air and Space Museum and I think this is a novel way of raising funds for a project.

[R8Steve]

Eric Mc said:

It's not owned by NASA - and they have to watch their pennies like any government agency these days.

It's now owned by the National Air and Space Museum and I think this is a novel way of raising funds for a project.

I know that, you would imagine that they wouldn't want to see it deteriorate to nothing though.

Not sure if you're being serious about government agencies watching their pennies though

[Eric Mc]

Well, NASA have been struggling for decades.

The NASM is essentially a charity (with some federal support) so any novel way of raising funds is a good idea.

[Athlon]

$365,564 raised so far!