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Shuttle Mission XL Jacket featuring Rare Patches
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Shuttle Mission Jacket featuring the following patches.STS-1 - 1st Columbia Mission and FIRST SHUTTLE MISSION
with Young and Crippen - This mission is notable as he first orbital spaceflight of NASA's Space Shuttle program. It launched April 12, 1981 and lasted 54.5 hours for 36 orbits.
STS-7 - 2nd Challenger Mission (7th Shuttle flight)
with Ride, Crippen, Fabian, Hauck, Thagard - This mission is Sally Rides first mission into space and is notable as the first mission a woman took into space.
STS-8 - 3rd Challenger Mission (8th Shuttle flight)
with Truly, Brandenstein, Gardner, Bluford, and Thornton - This mission is notable as the the first African-American into space (Bluford) and the first night launch and first night landing of the space shuttle program.
STS-9 - 6th Columbia Mission (9th Shuttle flight)
with Young, Shaw, Garriott, Lichtenberg, Merbold, and Parker - This mission is notable as the mission that took up the first module of Spacelab 1.
STS-41B - 4th Challenger Mission (10th Shuttle flight)
with Brand, Gibson, McNair, Stewart, and McCandless - This mission is notable as the first untethered space walk (by Bruce McCandless using the first MMU).
STS-41C - 5th Challenger Mission (11th Shuttle flight)
with Scobee, Hart, VanHoften, and Nelson - This mission is notable as the first direct ascent trajectory for a space shuttle.
STS-51L - Final Challenger Mission on Jan. 28, 1986 (25th Shuttle flight)
with McAuliffe, Jarvis, Scobee, Smith, McNair, Onizuka, and Resnick - This mission is notable as the first teacher into space and FINAL Challenger mission.
STS-51E - Cancelled Challenger Mission due to Challenger accident
- original crew of Baudry, Garn, Bobko, Williams, Seddon, Griggs, and Hoffman - everyone except Baudry redesignated to STS-51D (Space Shuttle Discovery Mission) which flew later in April 1985.