NASA Shuttle Part: 3 Missions: 13+ Million Mls: 538 Orbits: Columbia & Discovery For Sale
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NASA Shuttle Part: 3 Missions: 13+ Million Mls: 538 Orbits: Columbia & Discovery:
$1995.00
This piece of metal was part of the main engine on three Space Shuttle missions: One onboard Discovry and two onboard Columbia.
PB-08-11 is cast in a clear acrylic obelisk. The bottom is solid with a printed, color image of a space shuttle main engine. On one side of the obelisk is etched:
Space Shuttle
Main Engine Project
High Pressure Oxidizer
Turbopump Turbine Blade
Flown in Support of the
Space Shuttle Program
STS-50, STS-51, STS-55
This piece has traveled a total of 13.1 million miles
with 527 orbits around the earth.
Shuttle Mission STS-50
Spacecraft: Space Shuttle COLUMBIA
Launch Date: June 25, 1992
Land Date: July 9, 1992
Mission Duration:
13 days, 19 hours, 30 minutes, and 04 seconds
Orbit Altitude: 160 nautical miles
Orbit Inclination: 28.45 degrees
Miles Traveled: 5.8 million
Total Orbits: 221
Shuttle mission STS-50 was the 12th mission of the Columbia orbiter and carried the first United States Microgravity Laboratory (USML-1) to space, conducting long-duration microgravity experiments.
Its 13-day mission, the first Extended Duration Orbiter flight, and the longest space shuttle mission to date also provided new information on the effects of long-term human stay in space.
Columbia landed at Kennedy Space Center for the first time ever due to bad weather at Edwards Air Force Base caused by the remnants of Hurricane Darby.
Crew:
Richard N. Richards, Commander
Ken Bowersox, Pilot
Bonnie J. Dunbar, Mission Specialist
Ellen S. Baker, Mission Specialist
Carl J. Meade, Mission Specialist
Lawrence J. DeLucas, Payload Specialist
Eugene H. Trinh, Payload Specialist
Shuttle Mission STS-51
Spacecraft: Space Shuttle DISCOVERY
Launch Date: September 12, 1993
Landing Date: September 22, 1993
Mission Duration:
9 days, 20 hours, 11 minutes, and 11 seconds
Orbit Altitude: 160 nautical miles
Orbit Inclination: 28.45 degrees
Miles Traveled: 4.1 million
Total Orbits: 157
STS-51 was a NASA Space Shuttle Discovery mission that launched the Advanced Communications Technology Satellite (ACTS) in September 1993.
The flight also featured the deployment and retrieval of the SPAS-ORFEUS satellite and its IMAX camera, which captured spectacular footage of Discovery in space.
A spacewalk was also performed during the mission to evaluate tools and techniques for the STS-61 Hubble Space Telescope (HST) servicing-mission later that year.
STS-51 was the first shuttle mission to fly a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver, a Trimble TANS Quadrex. It was mounted in an overhead window where limited field of view (FoV) and signal attenuation from the glass severely impacted receiver performance.
Crew:
Frank L. Culbertson Jr., Commander
William F. Readdy, Pilot
James F. Newman, Mission Specialist
Daniel W. Busch, Mission Specialist
Carl E. Walz, Mission Specialist
Shuttle Mission STS- 55
Spacecraft: Space Shuttle COLUMBIA
Launch Date: April 26, 1993
Land Date: May 6, 1993
Mission Duration:
9 days, 23 hours, 39 minutes, and 59 seconds
Orbit Altitude: 163 nautical miles
Orbit Inclination: 28.45 degrees
Miles Traveled: 4.2 million
Total Orbits: 160
Shuttle Mission STS-55, or Deutschland 2(D-2), was the 55th overall flight of the NASA Space Shuttle and the 14th flight of Shuttle Columbia.
This flight was a multinational Spacelab flight involving 88 experiments from eleven different nations. The experiments ranged from biology sciences to simple Earth observations.
Crew:
Steven R. Nagel, Commander
Terence T. Henricks, Pilot
Jerry L. Ross, Mission Specialist and Payload Commander
Charles J. Precourt, Mission Specialist
Bernard A. Harris, Jr., Mission Specialist
Ulrich Walter, Payload Specialist
Hans William Schlegel, Payload Specialist
The base of the obelisk is a color image of a spece Shuttle Main engine.
Weight: 15.80 ounces
Dimensions: 6.25" tall x 2.25" wide (at its widest)
In good to very good, gently used condition. Please note that in the last few photos, I'm trying to show some minor surface scratches on the obelisk. They are UNnoticable (unless you're really looking for them).
Shipping:
Buyer pays USPS Priority Mail Flat Rate of $215. The Obolisk will arrive in a Medium-Size Box: 10" x 4" x 4" ($15.00).
Shipping INSURANCE IS INCLUDED ($200).
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