For better or for worse, a small part of the Apollo 11 spacecraft will now be Jon Mesick's to have and to hold for all the days of his life.
The strip of golden thermal polyimide tape, which made the trip to the moon with the first astronauts to land there in 1969, is now the centerpiece of Mesick's custom wedding band made by the Honest Hands Rings Company of Morrison, Colorado. The ring, which also incorporates lunar meteorite, is the focus of a newly posted online video that highlights the ring's significance and shows how it was made.
"We've made thousands of rings before, but never with anything this rare," said Ben Bosworth, Honest Hands Ring Co. owner. "That was the most stressful ring that we've ever done."
