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STS-82 / Discovery Patch

STS-82 / Discovery Patch

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This was the twenty-second flight of Discovery. Second in a series of planned servicing missions to Hubble Space Telescope (HST). Conducted four spacewalks (also called Extravehicular Activities or EVAs) for various servicing tasks, installing new instruments and replacing other existing hardware with upgrades. Landed at Kennedy Space Center, FL on February 21, 1997. Mission Duration: 9 days 23 hours 38 minutes 9 seconds.

Patch description: STS-82 is the second mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The central feature of the patch is HST as the crew members will see it through Discovery's overhead windows when the orbiter approaches for rendezvous, retrieval and a subsequent series of spacewalks to perform servicing tasks. The telescope is pointing toward deep space, observing the cosmos. The spiral galaxy symbolizes one of HST's important scientific missions, to accurately determine the cosmic distance scale. To the right of the telescope is a cross-like structure known as a gravitational lens, one of the numerous fundamental discoveries made using HST Imagery. The names of the STS-82 crew members are arranged around the perimeter of the patch with the extravehicular activity's (EVA) participating crew members placed in the upper semicircle and the orbiter crew in the lower one.

4" diameter embroidered patch.

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