San Diego Museum Picking Up Hill Man’s Space Collection
Neil Glick, an ANC commissioner from the Hill East neighborhood, announced last week that the San Diego Aerospace Museum will open an exhibit of his collection of Soviet space memorabilia in October in honor of the 50th anniversary of Sputnik’s launch. Glick is a native of San Diego, and he says the museum is one of his favorites. “I started this collection when I lived in Russia from 1993-1997,” he wrote in an e-mail last week. “Coincidentally, October will be the 10th anniversary of the year I left Russia.”
Among Glick’s 150-plus artifacts: items taken aboard space flights, folk art and pop culture items, original newspapers, autographs of the Russian equivalent of the “Right Stuff” team, and rocket and spacecraft models and schematics. After the collection leaves San Diego, Glick says, it will move on to other regional air and space museums in the United States.
