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Apollo Monaco Shaver

Apollo 14 carried a wind-up shaver, allowing the astronauts to dry shave, without shaving cream and a blade. There's film footage of Alan Shepard shaving with one (he seems to be enjoying it!); there's footage of Shepard cleaning it (after Roosa's acrobatics), and then of Edgar Mitchell joking about declining to use it but then shaving.

The shaver was manufactured by Haverhill and marketed after the flight as the "Monaco shaver" (as it was apparently manufactured in the country of Monaco), billed as "the shaver that went to the Moon."

I also have a scan of the insert that came with consumer versions of this shaver.

Both razors have the same plastic housing as the consumer model, rather than the plastic housing shown in the film from the flight.

 
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