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STS-89 / Endeavour Patch

STS-89 / Endeavour Patch

Item PASTS089 Price $4.95

This was the twelfth Endeavour flight and the eighth of nine planned missions to MIR and the fifth one involving an exchange of U.S. astronauts. Wolf was replaced by Thomas. During the mission more that 7,000 pounds of experiments, supplies and hardware were transferred between the two spacecraft. Landed at Kennedy Space Center, FL. January 31, 1998. Mission Duration: 8 days 19 hours 48 minutes 4 seconds.

Patch description: The link between the United States and Russia is symbolically represented by the Space Shuttle Endeavour and Russia's Mir Space Station orbiting above the Bering Strait between Siberia and Alaska. The success of the joint United States-Russian missions is depicted by the Space Shuttle and Mir colored by the rising sun in the background. A shadowed representation of the International Space Station (ISS) rising with the sun represents the future program for which the Shuttle-Mir missions are prototypes. The inside rim of the insignia describes the outline of the number eight representing STS-89 as the eighth Shuttle/Mir docking mission. The nine stars represent the nine joint missions to be flown of the program and - when combined with the number eight in the rim -- reflect the mission number. The nine stars also symbolize the children of the crew members who will be the future beneficiaries of the joint development work of the space programs of the two countries.

Along the rim are the crew members' names with David A. Wolf's name on the left and Andrew S. W. Thomas' name on the right, the returning and upgoing cosmonaut guest researcher crew members. In between and at the bottom is the name of Salizan S. Sharipov, payload specialist representing Russian Space Agency (RSA), in Cyrillic alphabet. The other crew members are Terrence W. Wilcutt, commander; Joe F. Edwards, Jr., pilot; and mission specialists Michael P. Anderson, Bonnie J. Dunbar, and James F. Reilly. The red, white and blue of the rim reflect the colors of the American and Russian flags which are also represented in the rim on either side of the joined spacecraft.

4" diameter embroidered patch.

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