Badge On The Moon

AXWhoah · #1 06-25-2002, 10:06 PM

So in an earlier thread about famous members both Delta Delta Delta and Alpha Chi Omega claimed to have their badges on the moon because Neil Armstrong's wife was in their respective organizations. Well as it turns out Neil has been married twice, and his first wife Janet Shearon Armstrong was in fact an AXO at Purdue, initiated in 1953. She was his wife when he walked on the moon in 1969 (and until the time of her death in 1999 I think) and so Tri-Delt's badge can't be there. His current wife is Carol, maybe she's a Tri-Delt. Whoo Hoo, mystery solved.

BearyCuteAPhi · #2 06-25-2002, 10:16 PM

Thanks for the info.

The1calledTKE · #3 06-26-2002, 07:43 AM

I doubt there is any fraternity sorority badge on the moon. When Armstrong went to the moon he just worries about surviving and making history. Putting badges on the moon was not in his plans of must do. Its just popular lore but not true. If it was true wouldn't you think it would be all over the GLO's literature? It would also be mentioned in spaceflight history like the smugled golf ball and make shift club. Or the small trinkets that Gus Grisom took to space with him the first time before the Apollo mission.

RUgreek · #4 06-26-2002, 01:27 PM

i don't think neil armstrong would be required to document every thing left behind. I dunno, maybe he counted his footsteps for record purposes, but he said in interviews that his wife's badge was left on the moon. Be careful, some AXO's are sensitive about things like that, and besides, they'd want to know where the heck that badge is then

RUgreek

DeltAlum · #5 06-26-2002, 02:44 PM

"they'd want to know where the heck that badge is then."

It'll probably end up on E-Bay.

Optimist Prime · #6 06-26-2002, 02:48 PM

How could it be found? There is little gravity on the moon, so it could have been kicked off by later astronauts who didn't see it and tripped. We will never know.

DeltAlum · #7 06-26-2002, 02:58 PM

OP,

See, here's what happened. You were right, in a way.

It was pinned to the flag on the moon, but the Lunar Winds blew it off.

Then a later astronaut accidentally kicked it up in the air, where, being so small, the moon's gravity wasn't enough to hold it down, so it floated off into space.

After several years of floating, it re-entered the earth's atmosphere, again, being so well constructed and small, it didn't burn up.

It landed in the Australian Outback, where it was found and picked up by a freelance production assistant on a Crockodile Dundee movie who took it to the Sydney Olympics and traded it to a pin collector, who couldn't read the Greek Alphabet, and was dissapointed when he found out it didn't belong to the Serbo-Croation Olympic Bobsled team (who somehow ended up in the Summer Games by mistake -- but due to a lack of competition, won a Bronze Medal) and then listed it on E-Bay.

Unfortunatley, it was purchased by a Veterinary Dentist who didn't realize what he had and melted down for use as a doggy filling.

It is now in somebody's pet's bicuspid -- somewhere in Cleveland, I think.

Doesn't that sound reasonable? At least as reasonable as pinning a sorority pin on a flag in those space suit gloves.

AlphaGam1019 · #8 06-26-2002, 03:05 PM

yeah, there are badges on the moon and there are rituals at the library of congress

suuuure

ZZ-kai- · #9 06-26-2002, 03:09 PM

Exactly.....anyway, there is a Beta (don't recall the name right now, but I am pretty sure it was not Joseph Allen - Beta) who has been in space 5 times, and brought his badge each time. That badge has since been retired to our Administrative Office (Oxford, OH).

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Originally posted by AlphaGam1019
yeah, there are badges on the moon and there are rituals at the library of congress

suuuure

Corbin Dallas · #10 06-26-2002, 03:15 PM

that's a bit different though, and it's slightly more believable. he is actually in that org, and he just took it with him, didn't leave it on any moons, planets, asteroids or anything like that. i find it hard to believe that neil armstrong would take his wife's badge into space. i suppose it's possible though. does anyone know where this interview is?

DeltAlum · #11 06-26-2002, 03:20 PM

Maybe that's why they're not married anymore. He stole her letters.

TLAW · #12 06-26-2002, 03:23 PM

Yep, DeltAlum's account pretty much wrapped it up. Those darn Clevelanders!

AXWhoah · #13 06-26-2002, 03:23 PM

Hey, no need to be rude and make-up stupid stories. If you said that some one famous had been in your fraternity and it sounded completely unbelievable I wouldn't knock it unless I had PROOF.
To answer a few questions:
Why? Maybe she asked him to cause it does sound pretty cool afterall to say that your sorority's badge is on the moon.
Pinning it with the space suit gloves? Maybe he pinned it previous to putting the gloves on, like it was already on flag when he planted it on the moon.
I'm not saying it's true or not I was just saying that Tri-Delt can't claim Neil Armstrong's wife anymore, cause I have PROOF (there's that word again). So IF anyone's badge is there it is ours!

DeltAlum · #14 06-26-2002, 03:26 PM

TLAW,

It (the badge) almost ended up in the Psychadelic exhibit at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. (That's in Cleveland, for those of you who may not know.)

I'm not sure which place is better.

DeltAlum · #15 06-26-2002, 03:34 PM

AX,

Relax. Just having a little fun. We've been through this story on behalf of a number of GLO's many times in the past -- probably perpetuated by people who aren't even members, but "heard" it somewhere.

Anything is possible, but until someone proves it, I think most of us just take it as an unsubstantiated rumor.