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This flight jacket belonged to Dr. Sally K. Ride, who became the first American woman in space when she flew on the STS-7 shuttle mission in 1983. Her second and last space mission was STS-41G in 1984. Shuttle astronauts wore this type of flight jacket to work and public appearances.
The decorations told the individual's story. Here, the leather nametag identifies the mission on which Ride earned her astronaut wings, STS-7. The patch across the chest indicates that she was one of 35 astronauts selected in 1978 as the first group chosen for the space shuttle program
. On the right shoulder is the patch for her other mission. The American flag and NASA logo patches appear on all astronaut uniforms.
This jacket is part of a four-piece inflight coverall assigned to an unknown astronaut as a training or backup garment during the Apollo era
It is constructed of a Teflon fabric which is highly fire resistant, and the "slippery" qualities of the fabric enabled the astronaut to don and doff the garment with ease in a weightless environmen
Astronaut Richard H. Truly wore this in-flight suit as commander of the six-day STS-8 mission aboard Space Shuttle Challenger in August 1983. Except during launch and reentry, Shuttle astronauts wear ordinary clothing as they live and work inside the orbiter.
NASA issues identical blue cotton-blend jackets, trousers, and shorts for their in-flight wardrobe. Crews of the earliest Shuttle missions wore standard dark-blue shirts with their own mission emblem sewn on the front; later crews wore shirts of various colors and designs.
STS-8 was the first Shuttle mission to launch and land at night. It was Truly's second mission; he had previously flown as pilot on Columbia for the STS-2 mission in 1981
Designed by the astronauts from this mission, Tom Stafford and Wally Schirra, this Gemini 6 mission patch was reproduced as a momento of the mission.
This Spaceflight Memorial patch commemorates the astronauts lost in the Apollo 1, Challenger, and Columbia disasters. Michael Okuda, a graphic designer who has worked with NASA as well as on Star Trek, designed the patch. The Greek letter "sigma" is a design element that designer Robert McCall and flight director Gene Kranz first used in a mission patch for NASA's Mission Control, representing the sum of the mission controllers' collective efforts. Okuda later updated that patch for NASA and incorporated the symbol in this design as well. The patch depicts an Apollo command and service module, a Space Shuttle orbiter, and the emblem of STS-107. The 17 stars represent the lives lost. Okuda received the NASA Exceptional Public Service medal in 2009 for his work on emblem designs, including this one.
The tragedies of the Apollo 1, Challenger, and Columbia missions provided a reminder of the dangers posed by spaceflight. For the thousands of workers employed as a part of the Space Shuttle Program, patches memorialising these disasters offered a way of expressing sympathy for the lost astronauts.
This is a silk screened version of the emblem worn on the shoulder of the U.S. spacesuits used in Extravehicular Activites (EVA) or, as more commonly known, spacewalks.
The original version of the patch displayed three stars, one for each U.S. space program that included spacewalks (Gemini, Apollo, Skylab). An additional two stars were added for the Space Shuttle and International Space Station programs.
Hamilton Sundstrand, the manufacturer of the Space Shuttle EVA suits, made this patch to be affixed to them. Company logos are not allowed on NASA equipment.
The design, by NASA engineer Fred Keune, is based on Leonardo da Vinci's "Vitruvian Man" depiction of the ideal proportions of the human body.
embroided version
Astronaut Joe Engle wore these flight boots aboard Enterprise during the Space Shuttle Approach and Landing Tests in 1977. Paired with pilot Richard Truly, Engle commanded three of the eight piloted test flights, including two of the five free-flight descents to landing.
He later commanded two orbital flights aboard Columbia (STS-2, 1981) and Discovery (STS 51-I, 1985).
