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Spaceflight Collections
« on: 03/21/2010 09:31 pm »
Thought I would share some photos of my collections.  I won't bore you with STS patches since everyone can have one and Jacques is the expert on those.   This one is some what unique.  I have a decal of every mission patch.

The mission patches I care about are the flown ones.
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Re: Spaceflight Collections
« Reply #1 on: 03/21/2010 10:02 pm »
I had a buddy who once had a flown space shuttle tire hanging on a wall in his apartment.  I told him that if he ever brought a woman over, he needed to take the tire down first...

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Re: Spaceflight Collections
« Reply #2 on: 03/21/2010 10:30 pm »
I had a buddy who once had a flown space shuttle tire hanging on a wall in his apartment.

Aaaand the latest entrant to the "You Know You're A Space Geek When" thread is... *drums*  :D

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Re: Spaceflight Collections
« Reply #3 on: 03/21/2010 10:50 pm »
Oh, he never denied it.

(Eventually he sold the tire for a small profit.  But about five years later there was a mini scandal about selling flown shuttle hardware and a bunch of tires that were going to be sold were pulled back.  My buddy lamented that if he had held onto the tire a few more years, it would have been worth a lot more.  I told him that he would also still be single.)

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Re: Spaceflight Collections
« Reply #4 on: 03/21/2010 11:22 pm »
I got that beat.  I have a 1 meter square section of the fairing from AC-67.  There is a pic somewhere on the forum.

http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=15015.msg335047#msg335047
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Re: Spaceflight Collections
« Reply #5 on: 03/21/2010 11:23 pm »
Here are my Russian decals.
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Re: Spaceflight Collections
« Reply #6 on: 03/21/2010 11:25 pm »
I have a pin collection.  I only display the missions, experiments or spacecraft that I have supported.

First grouping is Spacehab, then USAF and finally, NASA.
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Re: Spaceflight Collections
« Reply #7 on: 03/21/2010 11:27 pm »
I also have many vehicle passes.  Some for the causeway, others for EAFB and a few for the actual convoy.
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Re: Spaceflight Collections
« Reply #8 on: 03/21/2010 11:29 pm »
There also is a book with mission overlays, covering the LCC, PCR, SLF, and Hangar AE.
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Re: Spaceflight Collections
« Reply #9 on: 03/21/2010 11:38 pm »
Here are some interesting USAF space related patches.

I was part of these organizations.
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Re: Spaceflight Collections
« Reply #10 on: 03/21/2010 11:40 pm »
Here are some from the equivalent VAFB orgs.
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Re: Spaceflight Collections
« Reply #11 on: 03/21/2010 11:42 pm »
Here are two 1990's era orgs that have already been deactivated.
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Re: Spaceflight Collections
« Reply #12 on: 03/21/2010 11:43 pm »
Dwayne would be interested in these two.

the 460th runs Buckley AFB.  And other is for the various incarnations of the 6594th Test Group.
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Re: Spaceflight Collections
« Reply #13 on: 03/21/2010 11:46 pm »
The following are decals and I am looking for colored (vs subdued) patches of them.  Robert might be able to help and I might post on his site.
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Re: Spaceflight Collections
« Reply #14 on: 03/21/2010 11:48 pm »

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Re: Spaceflight Collections
« Reply #15 on: 03/21/2010 11:49 pm »
I doubt there are patches for these.

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Re: Spaceflight Collections
« Reply #16 on: 03/21/2010 11:51 pm »
finally a unique decal and patch.

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Re: Spaceflight Collections
« Reply #17 on: 03/23/2010 10:23 am »
Jim, were you part of this one ?
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Re: Spaceflight Collections
« Reply #18 on: 03/23/2010 12:12 pm »
Jim, were you part of this one ?

Nope, the MSL I worked is the Mars Science Lab

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Re: Spaceflight Collections
« Reply #19 on: 03/23/2010 12:12 pm »
I thought more people would post their collections

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