Auction Date:2012 May 23 @ 18:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Six items: flown .25 x .25 swatch of payload bay liner material flown on the space shuttle Columbia during the first space shuttle mission, STS–5, from November 11–16, 1982. Swatch is affixed to a 4.25 x 5.5 informational card; flight-flown payload bay liner swatch, .5 x .25, flown aboard the Discovery STS-82, and removed during refurbishment after the mission. Swatch is removable encased in Lucite against a color photo of the Discovery on the launch pad, to an overall size of 3 x 5.25; flight-flown limited edition patch from the eighth and final test flight of the Delta Clipper Experimental vehicle, #17/73, launched on July 7, 1995. Oval patch measures 5.25 inches in diameter. Patch is affixed to a color 8.5 x 11 informational sheet, detailing the flight at the White Sands Missile Range, as well as a color image of the take-off; fact sheet, one page, 7.75 x 10.5, signed in black felt tip by pilots Bruce Peterson and Don Sorlie, and two other officials. Sheet commemorates the 40th anniversary of the first NASA M2-F1 ‘lifting body’ aircraft; unopened foil packet of “space exposed” tomato seeds, 4 x 2.5. The packet is protectively sealed in clear plastic. Millions of tomato seeds were sent into space aboard the 1984 space shuttle Challenger STS-41C mission, as part of NASA's Long Duration Exposure Facility to observe the effects of deep space on the seeds. The cargo remained in Earth orbit for 5 years until 1989, when Columbia Shuttle Mission STS-32 retrieved the packets and the seeds were returned to Earth; and a commemorative embroidered wall hanging, measuring 6.25 x 9, bearing a home-made embroidered patch, quite similar to the STS-107 mission patch, honoring the crew of the Columbia. Delta Clipper is accompanied by a 1995 memo from Dale Shell, the DC-X Flight Test Manager stating, in part: “I am pleased to certify that this ‘DC-X Delta Clipper—Rapid Turn-Around’ patch was flown aboard flight 8 of the Delta Clipper Experimental…vehicle on 7 July 1995.”
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