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\"\"<\/a>This was an old astronaut toy that predated the Apollo missions probably belonged to my older brother John. Brian Bubonic<\/a> and I used him as the evil Cosmonaut that would fight Major Matt Mason.<\/p>\n

Here’s another view. I wonder if anyone famous sculpted these toy soldiers, astronauts and such.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This was an old astronaut toy that predated the Apollo missions probably belonged to my older brother John. Brian Bubonic and I used him as the evil Cosmonaut that would fight Major Matt Mason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31,120,26],"tags":[349,348,351,350,347],"class_list":["post-2734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blast-from-the-past","category-curious-clutter","category-stuff-joe-likes","tag-astronaut","tag-cold-war","tag-outer-space","tag-plastic","tag-toy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-I6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24991,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2019\/02\/13\/my-childhood-captured-on-a-single-page\/","url_meta":{"origin":2734,"position":0},"title":"My Childhood Captured on a Single Page","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"February 13, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Regular readers of the site are probably aware of the fantastic illustrative work of Tina Garceau. 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