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The Fourth Astronaut
Pressure suit A7L armstrong

Origin

Apollo 11 moon landing

Type

Sentient (?) Spacesuit

Effects

Self-animate, possibly sentient

Downsides

N/A

Activation

Alive (?)

Collected by

Warehouse 13

Section

Korolev-956K

Date of Collection

July 30th, 1969

[Source]


Origin[]

On July 24th, 1969, the Apollo 11 Lunar landing module Columbia achieved splashdown in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Warehouse agents were stationed aboard the USS Hornet to intercept any artifacts likely to have been created in such a momentous event. Nothing of note was identified at recovery, though a single moon rock would later be identified as an artifact during testing at the NASA headquarters. Under orders, the agents followed the journey of the Columbia to the Ford Island deactivation site, then onto the Lunar Receiving Laboratory in Houston.

Here, when the module was reopened for examination, the agents and researchers were alarmed to find a full space suit sitting in one of the secured seats. More so when the suit turned to face them and began talking. Its dialogue seemed confused and unrelated to the aggressive questioning it was presented with, and did not otherwise move or react to external stimulus. After adequate warning, two .45 caliber rounds were fired at the torso, to no effect. The figure was Tesla'd and removed from the module.

Interrogation from Warehouse agents and Regents produced no coherent replies until it was discovered that the suit was simply repeating a set rotation of phrases from radio communications between Mission Control and the Apollo 11 craft, as well as transcripts of news station reports that had aired between the 16th (launch day) and the 24th. Subsequent attempts to remove parts of the suit were met with failure, the interior seeming to exert a massive amount of pressure keeping everything together. The two previous bullet holes had been plugged by the spent rounds, apparently pushed back out of the suit to perfectly plug the entry wounds.

Internal scans of the suit showed absolutely nothing within, just a mass of hyper-dense matter in the approximate shape of a human with no discerning features. Given the lack of apparent sentience and the consistent effect of repeated phrases, it was decided to class the suit as an artifact itself as opposed to a Metaphysical Artifact Entity.

Effects[]

The suit contains a dense humanoid figure that cannot be identified by internal scanning. It does not require any apparent source of nutrients, nor does it breathe or sleep. The suit reacts to the presence of other people, but will not interact with them of its own volition. The suit, when approached, will emit radio recordings of transmissions between Mission Control in Houston and the Apollo 11 crew, as well as any television and radio news broadcasts about the event that aired while the mission was in progress.

The suit is resistant to damage, either recovering quickly or using nearby materials to patch any holes. Currently two .45 caliber rounds are embedded in the suit to plug the holes they punctured and cannot be removed. It is unknown where the suit came from, as it appeared to manifest spontaneously inside the Columbia. No extra suits were aboard the shuttle, and nothing unusual was reported by the astronauts. The current theory is that the worldwide excitement surrounding the landing manifested physically, explaining the artifact's limited dialogue.

Astronomy Artifacts
Astronomers Clyde W. Tombaugh's Photographic PlatesEdmond Halley's TelescopeErnst Chladni's PlateFritz Zwicky’s Meteor PelletsGalileo Galilei's AstrolabeHeinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers’ TelescopeJohannes Hevelius' QuadrantJohannes Kepler's Telescope LenseJohn Flamsteed's Star CatalogueKazimierz Kordylewski’s TelescopeLuis Alvarez's Iridium ChunkNicolaus Copernicus' Armillary SphereTycho Brahe's Prosthetic NosesVera Rubin's ProtractorWilliam Wales' Portable Observatory
Exploration Missions American Apollo 11 Lunar Landing Hoax SetApollo 13 Command ModuleApollo 15 Geologic Hammer and Falcon FeatherChris Hadfield's Acoustic GuitarColumbia Space ShuttleNavigational Software from the Mars Climate OrbiterPete Conrad's Space BootsRichard F. Gordon Jr's Spacesuit HelmetSaturn VThe Fourth AstronautWally Schirra’s Insignia PatchesWilliam Safire’s Apollo 11 Speech
Soviet / Russian Alexey Leonov's "Near the Moon"Laika's HarnessSputnik's AntennaUSSR Space CapsuleValentin Bondarenko's Cotton BallsValeri Polyakov's Blood Pressure CuffVladislav Volkov’s SpacesuitYuri Gagarin's Hockey PuckYuri Gagarin's SpacesuitYuri Gagarin's Lieutenant Pin
Other Edward Makuka Nkoloso’s Oil DrumMatroshka Experiments Mannequin
Natural Phenomenon Samples Chunk of the Chelyabinsk MeteorExplosive Meteor FragmentNWA 7034Piece of Halley's CometStar Jelly
Solar Prominence Donald Liebenberg's Eclipse GlassesÉvry Schatzman's TelescopeJohannes Fabricius' Camera ObscuraObelisk from St. Peter's BasilicaRa's ScepterRa's Solar Barge
Lunar Activity Chang'e's BuyaoJean Chastel's Silver GunLi Bai’s Rosewood Wall PanelsPrincess Kaguya’s Bamboo SwordSelene's TiaraTobias Mayer's Reflecting CircleWang Zhenyi's Lunar Eclipse
Exotic Physics Fred Hoyle’s Rubik's CubeGeorge Biddell Airy's Transit InstrumentHermann Weyl's Drafting CompassHolmdel Horn AntennaJames Chadwick's Nobel PrizeJocelyn Bell Burnell's Chart RecorderJohannes Kepler's Planetary ModelJohn Archibald Wheeler’s Newton CradleKarl Schwarzchild's Pocket WatchLouis Essen's Alarm Clock
Extraterrestrial Life Purported Sightings Heaven's Gate HomepageJ. Allen Hynek's TelescopeWilliam Brazel's Cowboy Hat
Fictional Encounters Bolaji Badejo's BeretCybermen OutfitsDalek CostumesFox Mulder's 'I Want To Believe' PosterGarrett P. Serviss' Prop Martian GunGeorge Lucas' Original Prop LightsaberH. R. Giger's Mechanical PencilHAL 9000 PropOmnitrix ToyOrson Welles' MicrophoneRichard O'Brien's StockingsU.S. Air Force Space Probe No. 1Zathura
Miscellaneous Bill Kaysing's FeatherCarl Sagan's JacketCharles Fort’s Newspaper ClippingsConrad Haas’ NozzleHuitzilopochtli's Sacrificial BowlJack Parson's Rocket EngineLance Bass' Cargo ContainerMaria Margaretha Kirch's EphemerisPiece of the Antikythera MechanismQian Xuesen's Servomechanism


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