APOLLO PROGRAM NAME STAMPS.

APOLLO PROGRAM NAME STAMPS.
ORIGINAL ILC, DOVER BETA CLOTH RUBBER STAMPS FOR APOLLO PROGRAM ASTRONAUTS
Group of 140 rubber stamps, various sizes, used to stamp astronaut names on Beta cloth tags, [1965-1972], many with "Franklin Rubber Stamp Co. / Wilmington, Del" on handle.
WITH: 8 ILC Industries "SCRAP" tickets, most dated August 14, 1972 and with description of scrap contents and part/assembly number.
AND WITH: Collection of material from ILC Industries and related companies including annual reports and press brochures, etc.

ILC Dover was formed as a division of the International Latex Corporation focused on government and industrial projects. They were awarded the prime contract by NASA for the Apollo Lunar Space Suit due to the approach they took to creating flexible joints in the air filled suits. The suits that they made were customized for each of the program's astronauts and each piece of the suit was labeled for that astronaut. Many parts of the suit were labeled with a Beta cloth tag stamped with the astronaut's name. The present collection includes 140 of the original rubber stamps used to create the name tags. The stamps include most of the astronauts who flew Apollo missions including the entire Apollo 11 crew of NEIL ARMSTRONG, BUZZ ALDRIN and MICHAEL COLLINS, each of the Moonwalkers, as well as several who never made it on an Apollo mission. Multiple examples for many of the astronauts including all capitals, upper/lowercase and size variants. A complete list available upon request.