STS-41D - Swissartex

Submitted by liem on Thu, 04/11/2013 - 20:05

STS-41-D was the 12th flight of NASA's Space Shuttle program, and the first mission of the orbiter Discovery. It was launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 30 August 1984, and landed on 5 September. Three commercial communications satellites were deployed into orbit during the six-day mission, and a number of scientific experiments were conducted.
The mission was delayed by more than two months from its original planned launch date, having experienced the Space Shuttle program's first launch abort at T-6 seconds on 26 June 1984.

This patch is lighter blue than the other versions of this patch.

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Size: 
4" / 100mm
Project: 
Space Shuttle
Classification: 
Mission/Crew Patch
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sts-41d
discovery
hartsfield
coats
mulane
hawley
resnik
walker
Manufacturer: 
Swissartex

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Submitted by kevinrsents on Mon, 04/15/2013 - 05:44

This Swissartex STS-41D patch can be found in two versions. The common waxy matt plastic coated backed one, & the rarer shiny vacuum sealed backed version. The later modern shiny plastic coated backed version was manufactured by Eagle Crest Emblem Inc. in Taiwan.