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This SpaceX Board Member's Office Is Filled With Fantastic Objects From The Moon

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Apollo era rocket engine

As we previously reported, venture capitalist Steve Jurvetson, a managing partner at Draper Fisher Jurvetson, is auctioning off a rare private tour of his massive private collection of space artifacts stored at his office.

His collection has grown so impressive, his coworkers now call the office "DFJ Space Museum," he says.

We heard from Jurvetson after we posted that story and he pointed us to his photos of the collection on Flickr. Each photo has a personally written tale about the artifact.

There's more than 100 photos on Flickr and that doesn't cover the whole collection.

Since February, "I have gone completely gonzo," he told members of the Collect Space forum and added another couple of dozen rare artifacts, he says.

Jurvetson hopes to one day visit the moon himself one day. As an investor and board member in Elon Musk's SpaceX firm, that's entirely possible.

Jurvetson stands with Apollo era rocket engine: During the Apollo 13 emergency, an engine like this one helped saved the astronaut's lives



The Apollo Fuel Cell in lobby of the office: This is an electric fuel cell. It combined hydrogen and oxygen to generate electricity onboard.



X-ray image of Neil Armstrong's Moon Boots: taken on 7-7-69, only 9 days before the launch. Jurvetson calls them "ethereal echoes" of the footprints Armstrong left on the moon.



See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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