🔥 Very RARE Vintage NASA American Space PROTOTYPE Metal Plaque Sign, 1959

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Type:NASA Plaque
Year:1959
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This is a museum worthy and Very RARE Vintage NASA American Space PROTOTYPE Metal Plaque Sign, comprised of brass, with depicts a crisp and detailed rendering of the early NASA «meatball» logo, which was designed and submitted to NASA by James Modarelli (1915 – 2002,) in 1959. His logo was accepted and would become the internationally recognized emblem that we all know today. THIS OFFERED ITEM is a finely detailed brass casting which was created in 1959 – early 1960’s from the original mold that Modarelli fabricated and used to create his painted plaster faux brass prototype logo that he personally presented to NASA at a closed-door meeting in 1959. The original painted plaster casting, of the same size dimensions of this Offered piece, with faux brass colorings, is in the private museum collection of Mark Martof, of Ohio, who bought the prototype from the son of James Modarelli, Jimmy at his home in Cleveland, many years ago (Please watch the YouTube video yourself.) I INVITE YOU TO DO A GOOGLE IMAGE SEARCH OF THIS ITEM! On the first page of your search, a screenshot of Martof’s prototype will be visible. There aren’t any others, or anything remotely similar aside from a tiny, roughly casted paper weight that was sold by Heritage Auctions for over $800.00. THIS IS IT, THERE IS NOTHING LIKE THIS PIECE KNOWN TO EXIST. This item is that rare. Approximately 7 1/8 inches tall x 8 1/2 inches wide x 1/2 an inch deep. Very good condition for age, with some light age-related speckles of oxidation throughout the surface of this plaque (please see photos.) It should go without mentioning, that this historic piece of American Space Exploration history is Priced to Sell. Acquired in Los Angeles County, California, from an individual who acquired this piece directly from the deceased estate of a high-ranking NASA employee who was there from the beginning, and worked for NASA from the early 1960’s – 1980’s. If you like what you see, I encourage you to make an Offer. Please check out my other listings for more wonderful and unique artworks! About this Item: How Downey, California helped put Apollo 11 on the moon (and get the astronauts back safely)By Steve Chiotakis and Tod Mesirow Jul. 15, 2019 Fifty years ago, Apollo 11 launched from the Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, Florida. However, the command module that brought those astronauts to the moon and back was built in Downey, California. Today, a replica sits outside the Columbia Memorial Space Center.“The final construction was in Building 290, and it’s now a 24-Hour Fitness,” said Benjamin Dickow, who directs the center. “So if you walk in there and work out, you’ll know that the ship that went to the moon was built on that property.” A history of aeronautics in DowneyBefore the space race of the 1960s, aeronautics workers built aircraft in Downey. The small city played a key role in equipping Allied forces with planes and parts during World War II. After the war, North American Aviation (NAA) started operating in Downey, and employed thousands.In 1960, the company won the bid from NASA to design and construct the command and service module (CSM) for the Apollo program. Functioning as a mothership, the CSM carried a crew of astronauts and the second Apollo spacecraft, the “lunar module,” to lunar orbit, and brought the astronauts back to Earth. Apollo 11 Command Module (CM-107) during construction and testing at the Rockwell plant in Downey, California. Photo courtesy of Columbia Memorial Space Center.Constructing the command and service module in Downey in the 1960s. Photo courtesy of Columbia Memorial Space Center.Once NAA won the bid, its workforce ballooned and 35,000 workers descended on the small city.“A huge majority were just blue collar technicians who could build stuff with their hands,” said Dickow. “This facility was bigger than Disneyland. 24/7, three shifts a day, tons of people and activity.” Remembering Apollo 11One of those workers was Charles H. Lowry, who designed the parachute system that, at the tail end of the mission, guided the astronauts safely back to Earth.“All of the designers on Apollo were sitting on the edge of their chairs, and they were so relieved when we get down [to the moon],” remembered Lowrey. “But of course in my case, the game has just started. I have to get them home.”He’s 87 now, but can still remember the relief he felt when those chutes opened and the capsule floated down into the Pacific Ocean, 900 miles southwest of Hawaii.“When the main chutes came out at about 10,000 feet, that’s when we all say we’re home,” said Lowry. “And the astronauts go nuts when they look out the window and see the most beautiful parachutes above them, and you get all these superlatives like ‘Beautiful! Gorgeous! Amazing,’ and all the crews were just elated. And then it’s a soft ride down to the water.”Another engineer, Nathaniel LeVert, shares that pride. He was working on an early satellite system for Douglas Aircraft in Southern California, when Downey called.“I would have worked for nothing because I was just so fascinated with what they had me doing,” he said.LeVert was tasked with designing a system to pressurize the liquid oxygen tank, which allows the main engines to combust in oxygenless space.“We did a lot of testing, and finally we will get the results we wanted,” he said. “I couldn’t sleep at night when I was thinking that they’re going to fly.” On race and discrimination Nathaniel LeVert is now 85. At the Columbia Space Center, he recently showed KCRW the designs and calculations that he hand-drew and tabulated in the 1960s during his time in the Apollo mission.Sitting next to LeVert was his colleague and friend, 84-year-old Shelby Jacobs, who developed the camera systems that captured amazing images during the Apollo missions, like the famous “Blue Marble” image t hat provided definite proof that the Earth was round. It also captured one of the most repeated images in space history: the separation between the first and second stages of the Apollo 6 spacecraft in 1968.While Jacobs and LeVert said they are proud of everything they accomplished in the modern space program, it wasn’t easy for them in the workplace. It was the 1960s, and they’re both African American.“It was a hostile environment for us,” said Jacobs. “My entire career, I never had a job that had been preceded by a ‘black’ before. And if I moved on, I was replaced by a white person… There was a certain resistance to us because we were taking jobs that were previously allocated for white males.”He said women had to deal with similar discrimination issues.At that time, LeVert and Jacobs couldn’t even live in Downey, they said. Most black employees lived in Watts“For the same reason segregation happened in the South, it was here too,” said Jacobs. “We could not live where we wanted to live. Our segregation was what I refer to as ‘de facto.’ There was no law that said you couldn’t do these things, but it was just kind of known. Even though we went to the same bathroom, we couldn’t live in Downey.”Today, Jacobs and LeVert are celebrated as two of many heroes of the Apollo program in Downey.What do they think NASA should do next?“Personally, I don’t think we need to go back to the moon,” said LeVert. “I think there has got to be another place that’s supporting life. I just believe that.” Warren Boomerang Curates Pop CultureWARREN, Ohio – Inside Curated Vintage Goods in Warren is a tall, glass case set off in a corner, containing several pieces of pottery. Among them is an item that, by the owner’s own admission, should not be there.“I think NASA should have that,” says Mark Martof with a chuckle. Martof is the creative director of the shop on Elm Street.The item, a plaster casting of the NASA logo, is easily recognizable, although its significance is not. In 1958, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics was absorbed into a new space agency to be called NASA. “When NASA was created, they invited three of their graphic designers to submit presentations on the NASA logo,” Martof says.One of those designers was James Modarelli, a 1949 graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art.Modarelli’s design, which featured symbols that represented the NASA mission, was accepted, becoming official in 1959. The item inside the case is the original plaster casting used to make the logo.“As well as another design that was never submitted,” Martof says, pointing to a small card depicting a NASA logo that never saw the light of day. “I think NASA might want to see that,” he says, laughing.Martof bought the items from Modarelli’s son, Jimmy, at his home in Cleveland around “two in the morning,” he says. Because of the significance of the items, they’re among the few in Martof’s shop that aren’t for sale, although they are by no means unique among his collection.The 4,000-square-foot shop is full of truly one-of-a-kind objects that tell the story of America from the 1950s through the 1970s. “Everything pop culture,” Martof says.Copyright 2024 The Business Journal, Youngstown, Ohio. NASA’s “Meatball” Logo Bringing back memories of NASA’s early successes, this logo dates back to 1959, when the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics (NACA) metamorphosed into an agency that would advance both space and aeronautics: the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). After a NASA Lewis (now Glenn) Research Center illustrator’s design was chosen for the new agency’s official seal, the head of Lewis’ Research Reports Division, James Modarelli, was asked by the executive secretary of NACA to design a logo that could be used for less formal purposes. Mr. Modarelli simplified the seal, leaving only the white stars and orbital path on a round field of blue with a red airfoil. Then he added white N-A-S-A lettering. In the “meatball” design, the sphere represents a planet, the stars represent space, the red chevron is a wing representing aeronautics (the latest design in hypersonic wings at the time the logo was developed), and then there is an orbiting spacecraft going around the wing.Known officially as the insignia, NASA’s round logo was not called the “meatball” until 1975, when NASA decided a more modern logo was in order and switched to the “worm”—a red, stylized rendering of the letters N-A-S-A.The use of “meatball” for “any combination of raw or cooked meat shaped into balls” dates back much farther, at least to 1838 (the Oxford English Dictionary’s oldest citation). An 1877 recipe used mutton and veal necks, but variously seasoned meatballs had been known by other names in other cultures. There were spicy Greek keftedes containing minced veal, onions, herbs, and breadcrumbs; olde English pome-dorries (dating back to at least A.D. 1381) made of beef and egg yolks or pork liver and flour; and the much-loved Italian and Swedish meatballs (whose ethnic names I could not find in time for this article). “Meatball” has also been used for a dull, unattractive person and for a penant for battle efficiency or an athletic scholarship.The use of “meatball” in aeronautics also predates NASA’s round insignia, but not by much. In 1957, the U.S. Navy referred to a “meatball of light” in its procedure for landing aircraft on aircraft carriers: “The mirror reflects a bright light astern and upward into a beam which the pilot follows straight to a landing by keeping the “meatball” of light precisely centered in the mirror.” This eventually became known as the meatball landing system.In 1992, then-Administrator Dan Goldin brought NASA’s meatball back from retirement to invoke memories of the one-giant-leap-for-mankind glory days of Apollo and to show that “the magic is back at NASA.” NASA «meatball» insigniaThe original NASA «Meatball» logo was created in 1958 by George Neago, a staff Industrial Artist who worked at the Lockheed Missiles Division in Palo Alto, California. James Modarelli was the Manager of the Lockheed Missiles Division’s Reports Department in 1958 and Supervisor of George Neago. Modarelli later joined NASA to become the Manager of the Reports Division at the NASA Lewis Research Center, where he later retired.The basic NASA «Meatball» logo was selected by US Federal Government staff as the winning entry submitted by Lockheed Corporation/Neago/Modarelli in a private industrial graphics logo competition sponsored by the US Federal Government in 1958, before NASA became an official Federal government agency.During 1963, NASA and Lockheed Senior Managers decided the basic NASA «Meatball» logo needed to be updated to show renewed and increased government/public interest in the NASA Space Program. Modarelli simplified the seal, leaving only the white stars and orbital path on a round field of blue with a red vector without Mr. Neago’s knowledge. This bright red color diagonal stripe was added to the NASA «Meatball» logo to help represent NASA to the public from 1963 to 1974 James Modarelli CitationJames Modarelli began his career in 1949 as a technical illustrator. When the NACA was absorbed into the new space agency, NASA. A call was made to design its official seal. Modarelli designed the NASA Administrator’s seal, as well as the iconic and internationally recognized NASA insignia, affectionately known as the “meatball” logo. Additionally, he was the creator of NASA’s first exhibits program, laying a foundation for agency outreach and inspiring a generation through community engagement.BiographyIn 1949, after graduating from the Cleveland Institute of Art, James “Jim” Modarelli began his career as an artist-designer at the laboratory that would become the NASA Glenn Research Center. When the NACA was approved to be absorbed into the new space agency—NASA, employees were invited to submit designs for the agency’s logo. Modarelli, who was serving as the Management Services Division chief at the time, submitted the winning designs.The official NASA seal and the less formal NASA “meatball” insignia are among the most recognized emblems in the world. The logos, which include symbols representing the space and aeronautics missions of NASA, became official in 1959. In July 1958, Modarelli participated in a tour at the Ames Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel, where he viewed a model of a radical supersonic airplane designed for flight at Mach 3.0. With a cambered, twisted arrow wing and an upturned nose, the model deeply impressed Modarelli. He later stylized the radical features of the arrow-wing configuration in his evolution of the NASA seal design; the wing would also become an element of the NASA insignia.After NASA was formed, Modarelli briefly went to the new NASA Headquarters to serve as the exhibits chief and was charged with developing the agency’s exhibits program. He returned to the NASA Lewis Research Center in Cleveland in 1961, where he continued to serve as the Management Services Division Chief. He also cochaired the historic 1962 Space Fair at the Cleveland Public Auditorium and headed many special, one-of-a-kind events. These included the summer camp for pre-apprentice training classes for minority high school graduates, the NACA Inspections, and many employee morale activities such as the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) and the 100 Year Relay. James Modarelli retired in 1979 and passed away on September 27, 2002.

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