Apollo 8 moon flown heatshield presentation first US astronauts Expedition 17 – crew hand

Expedition 17 – crew hand signed glossy 6x4''photo

this piece contains actual flown spacecraft material

Atlantis made the first Shuttle-Mir docking

including the replacement and servicing of one of its latching end effectors

Ed Gibson and Bill Pogue

Apollo 8 moon flown heatshield presentation first US astronauts Expedition 17 – crew handFlown heatshield material material mounted on a 7x9'' rigid foam board certified on the backside. Apollo 8 was the first mission to the Moon and back. It was the first manned mission to launch on the Saturn V and the crew took the first pictures of the Earth from deep space. The source of this heatshield is a larger block formerly encased in lucite and given to NASA workers and VIPs as a recognition of their work in the Apollo program. Flown artifacts