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From: Salzburg, Austria
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posted 07-08-2012 10:00 AM               

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Each space shuttle astronaut had a list of all items which were approved to be taken into space in his or her personal preference kit (PPK).

Obviously, members of ISS resident crew presented some mementos to space shuttle astronauts during short-time visits to ISS. Was the shuttle astronaut obliged to write a list of these items? I could imagine, there might have been some kind of revised PPK list for the flight back to earth. Are these lists available for public?

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From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999

posted 07-08-2012 12:57 PM               

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Based on the few shuttle PPK manifests I have seen, they were not revised during or post-flight to reflect anything returned from the International Space Station.

Anything the station crew would have gifted them would have appeared on either their own PPK manifests or on other inventory lists when the items were launched.

For the space shuttle PPKs that flew after 2001, the federal code provided for release of the manifest "following [a] postflight inventory" on request of the press or public through NASA public affairs. As the space shuttle program is now over, it would likely require a Freedom of Information Request and might be referred to history archive.

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