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Space Shuttle Discovery Crew Patch & Certificate of Authenticity from flight that included a Photograph of Utah Pony Express Riders, Aug. 27-Sept. 3, 1985Entry/Object ID
AM1994.47.7Scope and Content
Space Shuttle Discovery Crew Patch & Certificate of Authenticity from flight that included a Photograph of Utah Pony Express Riders, Aug. 27-Sept. 3, 1985. Embroidered crew patch 4" diameter, Engle-Covey-Lounge-Fisher-Van Hoften, with eagle in flight in front of stars and stripes. Presented to Pony Express Museum.
Certificate of Authenticity STS 51-1, Twentieth Flight of the Space Shuttle.
"This photograph of Utah Pony Express Riders and this crew patch were flown aboard the United States Space Shuottle "Discovery", from August 27 to September 3, 1985 by Astronaut William F. Fisher, Great-Grandson of Pony Express Rider William F. Fisher.
Launching from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, "Discovery" completed 112 orbits, traveling tow and three-quarter million miles before landing at Edwards Air Force Base, California"
Signed: William Fisher
William Fisher, M.D.
NASA Astronaut
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94.47.1, AM1989.012.00001, AM1989.012.00002, AM1989.012.00003, AM1989.012.00004, AM1994.047.00003, AM1994.047.00004, AM1994.047.00005, AM1994.047.00006, AM1994.047.00008
