Object Details
- Manufacturer
- NASA, Kennedy Space Center
- Summary
- This temporary identification pass allowed the wearer to enter NASA’s firing room for the launch of the space shuttle Columbia, STS-90 in April 1998.
- The firing room at the Kennedy Space Center served as the nerve center for the dozens of controllers coordinating the launch of a space shuttle orbiter. Over the course of 135 Space Shuttle Program missions, thousands of workers were employed in supporting these reusable space shuttle orbiters. Designed as a reusable spacecraft capable of flights to low Earth orbit, space shuttle orbiters carried astronauts to conduct scientific experiments, launch and repair satellites, and construct the International Space Station.
- The pass belonged to Dennis Jenkins, a consulting aerospace engineer for the Space Shuttle Program, and author of Space Shuttle: The History of the National Space Transportation System, a definitive book detailing the development and first 100 flights of the space shuttles.Jenkins donated the pass to the National Air and Space Museum in September 2011.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Dennis R. Jenkins.
- Inventory Number
- A20120094000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- MEMORABILIA-People
- Materials
- Paper
- Ink
- Dimensions
- 2-D - Unframed (H x W): 11.4 x 7cm (4 1/2 x 2 3/4 in.)
- See more items in
- National Air and Space Museum Collection
- National Air and Space Museum
- Record ID
- nasm_A20120094000
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv938ce8ab0-4dd8-482c-b7a5-591e52f5ac9a
