I attended the October 26th meeting of the Citizen's Coinage Advisory Committee in the Mint's headquarters in Washington, D.C., and witnessed the members' discussions of the obverse and reverse designs for the New Frontier Congressional Gold Medal. The medal honors the space missions of John Glenn aboard Mercury Atlas 6 (first American to orbit the Earth) and of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins aboard Apollo 11 (first and second people to set foot on the Moon, and the pilot of the mission command module).

There were a total of four different obverse design candidates and seven different reverse design candidates provided by the United States Mint.

"Joe" writes:

Richard Stinchcomb writes:

To read the complete article, see:New Frontier Congressional Gold Medal Designs Reviewed by CCAC(news.coinupdate.com/new-frontier-congressional
-gold-medal-designs-reviewed-by-ccac-0518/)