Forget model rockets. If you really want to one-up your fellow NASA maniacs — and impress your sweetheart to boot — you’ve got to turn a piece of space-faring history into a wedding ring.
That’s exactly what the guys from Honest Hands Ring Co. did with a relic from the Apollo 11 mission. The Denver, Colorado-based custom ring-makers were approached by a client who’d recently won a scrap of Apollo 11 Kapton foil at auction. The foil is the same stuff used in those little “emergency” blankets that sit at the bottom of your pack for years and years. In the Apollo missions, NASA engineers used the material as an insulator on the Lunar Module.
As they tell it in a short video posted to YouTube, the Honest Hands folks have made thousands of custom rings, but never one that used material from such an extreme juncture of fragility and rarity. It was nerve-wracking, to say the least.
Get a load of how they did it below.
