STS -88 ISS Flown Metal Medal & Presentation Provenance, Space Flight Awareness

Description

STS -88 ISS Flown Metal Medal and
Original
Presentation Provenance
First ISS /
Space Flight Awareness
Achievement Award
Year issued:
1998
Mint:
Galaxy Medals Inc.
No. Minted:
60.000
Flown metal:
two pieces of metal cut from the skin panel on "Unity" (Node 1); one piece measuring 6"x2"
This Space Flight Awareness flown metal medal from the STS-88 commemorates the first shuttle docking with the International Space Station in 1998. This rare limited medal (only 60,000 minted) was made using metal removed Uniti node following for NASA ground crew.
Medallion and Presentation Provenance are in Excellent Condition, just as it was originally given out to those involved in the STS-88 mission and first International Space Station program
Please see all attached pictures
Shipment includes a Tracking Number
STS-88 was the first
Space Shuttle
mission to the
International Space Station
(ISS). It was flown by Space Shuttle
Endeavour
, and took the first American module, the
Unity node
, to the station.
The seven-day mission was highlighted by the mating of the U.S.-built Unity node to the
Functional Cargo Block
(Zarya module) already in orbit, and three spacewalks to connect power and data transmission cables between the Node and the FGB. Zarya, built by Boeing and the
Russian Space Agency
, was launched on a Russian
Proton rocket
from the
Baikonur Cosmodrome
in Kazakhstan in November 1998.
Other payloads on the STS-88 mission included the IMAX Cargo Bay Camera (ICBC), the Argentine Scientific Applications Satellite-S (SAC-A), the MightySat 1 Hitchhiker payload, the Space Experiment Module (SEM-07) and
Getaway Special
G-093 sponsored by the
University of Michigan
.