GUEST: I brought in a few of the many heirlooms that have been handed down from my grandmother and grandfather, who were parent to John Young, who is one of the astronauts in the program, well-known astronaut.

And he joined, uh, NASA in the second wave of the astronaut recruitment.

APPRAISER: John Young, a well-known astronaut.

Gemini 3, which he was on, was the first crewed mission of the Gemini program.

GUEST: Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.

APPRAISER: And then Gemini 10... GUEST: Mm-hmm.

APPRAISER: ...and then Apollo 10.

GUEST: Mm.

APPRAISER: He was commander of the command module, which made him the first person to orbit the moon by his lonesome.

(chuckling) So, pretty cool.

GUEST: I didn't know that, yeah.

APPRAISER: Yeah.

And then, Apollo 16, he became the ninth person to walk on the moon.

Right?

GUEST: Yeah, that's very cool.

APPRAISER: And here we have a picture of John Young jumping on the-- on the lunar surface... GUEST: With the salute.

APPRAISER: Right.

And then with a flown flag, a mission patch, and beta cloth-- a fireproof material.

And then, the crew were allowed to bring stuff.

GUEST: Mm-hmm.

APPRAISER: And they brought flags and insignias and things like that.

GUEST: Sandwiches.

APPRAISER: Sandwiches.

Space food.

(chuckles) And they were allowed to take those and have... as personal items that they could give out to friends and family, et cetera.

APPRAISER: So, you have a flown flag with the emblem.

And in the world of space collecting, it kind of breaks down between those two camps: flown and not flown... GUEST: Mm-hmm.

APPRAISER: ...because only a handful of things ever got it into space.

GUEST: Yes.

APPRAISER: So it's great.

You have a wonderful flown flag, and the beta cloth patch, which-- it doesn't designate it was flown.

GUEST: Mm-hmm.

APPRAISER: It might have been, but we're going to assume for sure at least the flag was flown, right.

GUEST: Okay.

Okay, great.

APPRAISER: Then he becomes the first, uh, pilot for STS-1.

GUEST: Yeah.. APPRAISER: STS stands for Space Transport System.

GUEST: Yeah.

APPRAISER: And STS-1 was really just kind of the "working out the bugs" flight.

It was only a two-man crew making sure that all the systems were working... GUEST: Mm-hmm.

APPRAISER: ...and everything was going to go just fine.

GUEST: Mm-hmm.

APPRAISER: And there, you have a flown flag as well as mission patch and signed by John Young and his crew member, Bob or Robert Crippen.

GUEST: Yeah.

APPRAISER: Pretty cool.

John Young was actually the only astronaut to have been on the moon as well as a space shuttle pilot.

GUEST: Yes.

APPRAISER: So that's a pretty cool... GUEST: Wow, yeah.

APPRAISER: Whatever adhesive they were using... GUEST: Yeah.

APPRAISER: ...for the flag is starting to turn a brown a little bit.

That needs to be looked at by a conservator at some point, but presumably it probably could be at least halted.

I like the STS-1 patch and flag.

And the condition issues hold me back from being a little bit aggressive, but I would say, at auction, we'd have something like a $1,500 to $2,500 auction estimate.

APPRAISER: If you had to insure it, easily in the $5,000 to $7,000 range.

GUEST: Mm, okay.

APPRAISER: The Apollo 16, you've got the flag and a wonderful beta cloth, uh, emblem.

I would say an auction estimate would be $3,000 to $5,000.

GUEST: Oh, okay, okay, wonderful.

APPRAISER: For insurance you could do as much as $10,000.

GUEST: Okay.

Perfect, thank you.

Oh my gosh.

Well, they've always been-- he was such an inspiration to all of us.

And just to have these, this makes me feel... good about being able to display this kind of thing.