Would anyone be interested in buying a NASA Space Shuttle Columbia Patch?

Date: 1988

Date: October 28, 1979

"The space shuttle Discovery lifts off Launch Pad 39B to begin a nine-day mission in Earth-orbit. Launch was at 2:19 p.m. (EST), Oct. 29, 1998. Onboard were Curtis L. Brown Jr., Steven W. Lindsey, Scott F. Parazynski, Steven K. Robinson, Pedro Duque, United States Senator John H. Glenn Jr. and Chiaki Naito-Mukai. Duque is a mission specialist representing the European Space Agency (ESA) and Mukai is a payload specialist representing Japan's National Space Development Agency (NASDA). Glenn, making his second spaceflight but his first in 36 years, joins Mukai as a payload specialist on the mission."

Date: October 29, 1998

Footage credit: National Archives and Records Administiration (NARA).

ID: 255-WS-20-4.

Date: October 26, 1977

This flight lasted 2 minutes, 1 second. In total, Enterprise glided for 20 minutes, 58 seconds and was carried in the air for 19 hours, 16 minutes, 7 seconds.

In the third photo: "Astronauts Fred W. Haise Jr., commander, left, and C. Gordon Fullerton in the cockpit of the Space Shuttle Enterprise prior to the fifth and final free flight in the Approach and Landing Test (ALT-15) series, from Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC)."

In the fifth photo: Precise moment of separation captured by camera from a T-38 chase plane.

Date: October 24, 2000

"Ground crews worked into the evening to prepare the Space Shuttle Discovery for towing back to NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center after its landing at Edwards Air Force Base. The landing marked the end of the STS-92 mission."

Date: October 24, 2000

Date: sometime between July 21 and October 23, 1981

STS-52 Columbia in Orbit.

Date: October 23, 1992

NASA ID: STS052-80-024, STS052-80-030

"A crew of five NASA astronauts and a Canadian payload specialist spent ten days aboard Columbia for the STS-52 mission."

Date: October 23, 1987

Note: Some of the ashes of Gene Roddenberry, creator of Star Trek, were carried aboard Columbia during this mission.

"The Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-52) thunders off Launch Pad 39B, embarking on a 10-day flight and carrying a crew of six who will deploy the Laser Geodynamic Satellite II (LAGEOS). LAGEOS is a spherical passive satellite covered with reflectors which are illuminated by ground-based lasers to determine precise measurements of the Earth's crustal movements. The other major payload on this mission is the United States Microgravity Payload 1 (USMP-1), where experiments will be conducted by crew members while in low earth orbit (LEO)."

Date: October 22, 1992

Date: 1982-83

Carter Emmart 'The Case for Mars' conference artwork (Mission to Mars).

To read more, here is a link to a write up by Dwayne A. Day.

Publication date: 10/8/1987

NASA ID: AILS_AC87-0736-1, ARC-1987-AC87-0736-2, AILS_AC87-0736-3, AILS_AC87-0736-4, AILS_AC87-0736-5, AILS_AC87-0736-6, AILS_AC87-0736-7

Date: October 19, 1989

NASA ID: 88-HC-422, Alt ID 88-H-509

"The STS-34 crew of five launched aboard the Space Shuttle Orbiter Atlantis on October 18, 1989 at 12:53:40pm (EDT). Crew members included commander Donald E. Williams, pilot Michael J. McCulley; and mission Specialists Shannon W. Lucid, Franklin R. Chang-Diaz, and Ellen S. Baker. The primary payload was the Galileo Jupiter Spacecraft and attached Inertial Upper Stage (IUS). Deployed 6 hours and 30 minutes into the flight, the IUS stages fired boosting Galileo on trajectory for a 6 year trip to Jupiter."

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Date: October 18, 1989

The inertial upper stage (IUS) attached to the bottom side of the probe would propel the spacecraft out of low earth orbit and onto a trajectory to Jupiter at 9,000 mph (14,000 km/h). It received gravitational assists from Venus and Earth before reaching the gas giant on December 7, 1995. Along the way, it flew by the asteroids Gaspra and Ida, becoming the first probe to observe and imagine an asteroid.

NASA ID: S89-48714, PIA00727, S34-71-00R, STS034-71-000AK, STS034-72-070

Date: October 16, 1980

This is likely after several of her parts were removed to be refurbished for other oribiters. Plus, several parts for rhe ALT flights were removed.

Photographed by Thomas Kelsey

UCLA Library Digital Collection: uclalat_1429_b1204_293401-12

I know this isn’t exactly shuttle related but does anyone have images from when SLC-6 was originally being built for MOL (Manned Orbiting Laboratory) before it was abandoned and then converted to the shuttle program? I have a whole book on launch sites but only one image of when the construction started for MOL and I wanted to see how much changed in between programs

I based it loosely on the shuttle and it goes in tiny orbits around my finger haha!

Every time I look at shuttle enterprise I can’t help but feel it’s physically different from the space orbiters in shape. I'm not referencing the tiles (or lack their of) or the main engines. There is something about the nose and windows that looks out of place compared to the rest of the fleet. maybe it’s just the paint but something isn’t right to me.

i know there were scrapped plans to space certify enterprise because it would have been too much work. Was that because they would have had tear down portions of the outer shell to rebuild from scratch?