Object Details
- Manufacturer
- NASA, Kennedy Space Center
- Summary
- This temporary pass allowed the wearer to enter the NASA firing room at the Kennedy Space Center for the launch of the space shuttle Atlantis, STS-86, in September 1997. The firing room at the Kennedy Space Center served as the nerve center for controllers on the launch day of these space shuttles. 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 badge 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 was to the National Air and Space Museum in September 2011.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Dennis R. Jenkins.
- Inventory Number
- A20120092000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- MEMORABILIA-People
- Materials
- Paper
- Dimensions
- 2-D - Unframed (H x W): 10.8 x 7cm (4 1/4 x 2 3/4 in.)
- Country of Origin
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Air and Space Museum Collection
- National Air and Space Museum
- Record ID
- nasm_A20120092000
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv9a6cb865a-6c3e-4039-a32b-839649e7fd86
