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Title: How NASA launched the 2012 Olympics 12 years ago
Post by: collectSPACE on 07/27/2012 12:59 pm
How NASA launched the 2012 Olympics 12 years ago: a pin payload's story
http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-072712a.html

On only the third mission to the International Space Station in May 2000, space shuttle Atlantis launched a small package tied to the Summer Olympics — not the 2000 Games in Sydney but rather the 2012 Olympics beginning on Friday. Twelve years later the contents of that payload are now an unusual example of Olympics-related memorabilia and a reminder of how the Summer Games and NASA could have shared space...