Over the last couple of weeks, NASA and James Lovell, an astronaut that was on the Apollo 13 mission, have been in a small dispute about a checklist that James had during the Apollo 13 mission and whether he had the right to sell it for $388,000.
Now, while NASA specifically said that astronauts can keep personal items that went to space and anything from the lunar landing module that was abandoned as keepsakes, they never said that they could sell them and that that right is only available to NASA
In my opinion, if the astronauts can keep the items, then they might as well be able to also sell them. After all, it is technically theirs, especially when it's something like a checklist. What isn't fair though is that they got such a large amount of money from just selling something as small as that. Now, I'm not saying they don't deserve the money, but $388,000 is a lot of money from just a checklist.
Now, while NASA specifically said that astronauts can keep personal items that went to space and anything from the lunar landing module that was abandoned as keepsakes, they never said that they could sell them and that that right is only available to NASA
In my opinion, if the astronauts can keep the items, then they might as well be able to also sell them. After all, it is technically theirs, especially when it's something like a checklist. What isn't fair though is that they got such a large amount of money from just selling something as small as that. Now, I'm not saying they don't deserve the money, but $388,000 is a lot of money from just a checklist.
