Shuttle Discovery STS-26 America’s Pride The Journey Continues Patch & Document

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Rockwell, Space Shuttle Discovery STS-26 America’s Pride The Journey Continues Patch & Presentation Provenance
STS-26 was the "Return to Flight" mission following the
Space Shuttle Challenger disaster
of 28 January 1986
Rockwell International's Space Transportation Systems Division presentation provenance card, and an “America’s Pride, The Journey Continues” Patch
Condition: Patch and Rockwell Presentation Provenance card are in Excellent condition with no tears, folds, dog ears, staining/foxing, or writing are present
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Shipping includes a Tracking Number
STS-26
was the 26th
NASA
Space Shuttle
mission and the seventh flight of the orbiter
Discovery
. The mission launched from
Kennedy Space Center
,
Florida
, on 29 September 1988, and landed four days later on 3 October. STS-26 was declared the "Return to Flight" mission, being the first mission after the
Space Shuttle Challenger disaster
of 28 January 1986.
Crew Members
Position
Astronaut
Commander
Frederick H. Hauck
Third and last spaceflight
Pilot
Richard O. Covey
Second spaceflight
Mission Specialist 1
John M. Lounge
Second spaceflight
Mission Specialist 2
David C. Hilmers
Second spaceflight
Mission Specialist 3
George D. Nelson
Third and last spaceflight
Orbiter’s are built by Rockwell International's Space Transportation Systems Division, Downey, Calif.,
which also has responsibility for the integration of the overall space transportation system.
The Space Shuttle system consists of four primary elements: an orbiter spacecraft, two Solid Rocket Boosters (SRB), an external tank to house fuel and oxidizer and three Space Shuttle main engines.
The SRB motors are built by the Wasatch Division of Morton Thiokol Corp., Brigham City, Utah, and are assembled, checked out and refurbished by United Space Boosters Inc., Booster Production Co., Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Fla. The external tank is built by Martin Marietta Corp. at its Michoud facility, New Orleans, La., and the Space Shuttle main engines are built by Rockwell's Rocketdyne Division, Canoga Park, Calif. These contracts are under the direction of NASA's George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala.
On July 26,
1972
, NASA selected Rockwell's Space Transportation Systems Division in Downey, Calif., as the industrial contractor for the design, development, test and evaluation of the
orbiter
. The contract called for fabrication and testing of two orbiters, a full-scale structural test article, and a main propulsion test article. The award followed years of NASA and Air Force studies to define and assess the feasibility of a reusable
space transportation system
.