STS-51C - 3" - Swissartex

Submitted by liem on Thu, 04/11/2013 - 21:56

STS-51-C was the 15th flight of NASA's Space Shuttle program, and the third flight of Space Shuttle Discovery. It launched on 24 January 1985, and made the fourth shuttle landing at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 27 January. STS-51-C was the first shuttle mission to deploy a dedicated United States Department of Defense (DoD) payload, and consequently many mission details remain classified.

 

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Size: 
3" / 76mm
Project: 
Space Shuttle
Classification: 
Mission/Crew Patch
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sts-51c
dod
discovery
mattingly
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onizuka
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Swissartex

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Submitted by kevinrsents on Mon, 04/15/2013 - 05:29

This 3" version of the STS-51C was manufactured by Swissartex Emblem Inc. with a waxy matt plastic coated backing. (I have this exact patch in a sealed Swissartex / KSC packet). Swissartex also manufactured the full size 4" versions very simular in design with a waxy plastic coated backing & a shiny vacuum sealed backing. The later modern ones with a shiny plastic coated backing were manufactured by Eagle Crest Emblem Inc. in Taiwan.