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Apollo 11 (Journey to the Moon) Novelty Money Bill # 031
Our patriotic
Journey to the Moon commemorative bill celebrates the successful
landing of an American astronaut on the Moon. The Apollo Program was
NASA's moon-landing project of the 1960s and 1970s. The Apollo spacecraft was
supplied with its own low-powered rockets, which could brake on approach to the
moon and go into lunar orbit around the moon. Part of the spacecraft, the lunar
module, could also be released, with its own rocket power, to land astronauts on
the moon, and return them to the lunar orbiter. In July 1969, Apollo 11,
with Commander Neil A. Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins, and
Lunar Module Pilot Edward E. Aldrin, Jr. aboard, blasted off for the moon. On
July 19, 1969, after landing at Tranquility Bay on the Moon's surface, Armstrong
became the first person to set foot on the Moon. The last of the Apollo
flights, Apollo 17, took place in 1972. This Eleven Dollar bill is a
wonderful commemorative bill for those who are interested in space history.
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Mars (Invaders from Mars) Novelty Money Bill # 176
Our Mars bill represents One Million Martian Dollars. The front of the bill states, about these Invaders From Mars that, "We Come in Peace."
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Space Shuttle Challenger (Seven Brave Heroes) Novelty Money Bill # 080
NASA's Shuttle Program, formerly known as the Space Transportation System (STS), uses partially reusable rocket-launched vehicles to go into earth orbit, transport people and cargo between earth and orbiting spacecraft, and then glide to a runway landing on earth. The first flight of a space shuttle into orbit took place in 1981. The shuttle consists of a winged orbiter that carries crew and cargo; an expendable external tank of liquid fuel and oxidizer for the orbiter's three main rocket engines; and two large, reusable solid-propellant booster rockets. The orbiter lifts off vertically like an expendable launch vehicle but makes an un-powered descent similar to a glider. Each orbiter was designed to be reused up to 100 times. The Shuttle Challenger was one of the first four U.S. space shuttles. It made its first flight in 1983. At the launch for its tenth mission on January 20, 1986, faulty O-rings in the seams of its solid rocket booster failed and the booster exploded, destroying the Challenger and killing its seven-member crew. This tragic event was even more tragic in the fact that the families of the astronauts were present at the Florida launch site and witnessed the Challenger blow up some 90-miles above the earth's surface. Adding further to the tragedy was the fact that Sharon Christa MacAuliffe, a public school teacher, was one of the seven aboard who died. Shuttle Challenger was replaced in 1992 by Shuttle Endeavour. Our Challenger commemorative bill honors the brave astronauts and teacher aboard the Challenger.
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Space Shuttle Columbia Novelty Money Bill # 079
Our Columbia commemorative bill honors the seven astronauts on board NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia, which broke up during re-entry 150-miles above Texas, on February 1, 2003, just 16-minutes before a scheduled landing at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The crew had just completed a successful 16-day scientific research mission in which they conducted 80 experiments on microgravity. The Columbia was one of the first four space shuttles built by NASA as part of the STS program (see a more detailed description of the STS program under the Shuttle Challenger bill above), and was the first Shuttle orbiter. It was delivered to Kennedy Space Center in March 1979 and made the first shuttle flight (STS-1) on April 12, 1981. It was that flight that proved the operational concept of a winged, reusable spaceship. Shuttle Columbia's tragic flight, STS-107, had five male astronauts and two female astronauts aboard. The tragedy was not only a great loss for America, but also for India and Israel. NASA astronaut Kalpana Chawla was born in India and this flight was being closely watched by citizens of India. Israel's first astronaut, Ilan Ramon, was also aboard the ill-fated STS-107 flight. It is believed that the spacecraft was fatally damaged upon liftoff when a piece of foam insulation impacted the left wing, causing a small hole that allowed super-heated re-entry gasses to enter into the wing, eventually causing the destruction of the spacecraft.
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Retro-Rocket Novelty Money Bill # 168
Our Retro-rocket bill depicts the present abilities of space vehicles to fire a small rocket engine on a larger rocket or spacecraft to slow the forward motion of the vehicle or alter its course. The futuristic aspects of retro-rocket technology is for a soldier carrying a smaller weapon to fire a rocket that would slow the vehicle or alter its course. This bill is sure to be loved by all who enjoy the Retro-rocket video games!
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Solar System (The Final Frontier) Novelty Money Bill # 067
Our Solar System bill commemorates the huge vastness of space. The Solar System consists of the Earth's sun, its planets, and their natural satellites, and the asteroids, comets, meteoroids, and interplanetary dust and gas under the sun's gravitational control. The sun contains more than 99% of the mass of the entire solar system; most of the rest being distributed among the nine major planets, with Jupiter containing about 70% of that. We'll sell you these One Million Planetary Dollars for a lot less! Order yours today!
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Sun-Moon Novelty Money Bill # 182
The Sun is the star at the center of our solar system. The Earth and other planets orbit the Sun. The sun is important to us on Earth because its sunlight is the energy that supports most life on Earth, and drives the Earth's climate and weather. The diameter of the Sun is approximately 109 times greater than that of the Earth. The Moon is the only natural satellite that the Earth has. The distance from the center of the Earth to the center of the Moon averages 238,857 miles. The Moon's diameter is slightly more than a quarter that of the Earth. The Moon orbits around the Earth every 27.3 days. The gravitational pull of the Moon is largely responsible for ocean tides on Earth. The first man-made object to escape the Earth's gravity and pass near the Moon was the Luna 1, by the former Soviet Union. The first man-made object to impact the Moon was Luna 2. The first photographs of the far side of the Moon were made by Luna 3. All of these events occurred in 1959. Luna 9 was the first spacecraft to make a successful lunar soft landing, and Luna 10 was the first unmanned vehicle to orbit the Moon, both in 1966. The United States is the only nation that has made manned flights to the Moon, in the Apollo program, resulting in six landings between 1969 and 1972.
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UFO (Extraterrestrial) Novelty Money Bill # 069
Our UFO bill asks the Million Dollar questions: "What's Really Out There?" "Are there extraterrestrials?" This bill recognizes the UFO Watchers of Planet Earth as they endeavor to answer these challenging questions.
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