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Topic: Astronaut Dan Barry's connection to STS-98
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Hart Sastrowardoyo
Member Posts: 3445
From: Toms River, NJ
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 09-25-2016 10:38 AM
   
Going through photos, and found this, which includes as a description: Following the landing of mission STS-105, from left, Mission Specialist Daniel Barry, Commander Scott "Doc" Horowitz, and Pilot Frederick "Rick" Sturckow give a thumbs up in front of Space Shuttle Discovery... But why is Barry wearing an STS-98 patch?  |
Hart Sastrowardoyo
Member Posts: 3445
From: Toms River, NJ
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 09-27-2016 10:20 AM
I asked Barry about this last night when I saw him, and he said he's wearing the class patch. It may be my eyes, but that doesn't look like either of the two designs for Group 14. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42988
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 09-27-2016 12:17 PM
I agree that it looks like Dan is wearing an STS-98 patch.The suit he is wearing is a different one than he wore pre-flight. That suit had the STS-105 and Mach 25 patches. Maybe, for some reason, he was given Mark Polansky's STS-98 suit to wear and they swapped the name tags. |
LM-12
Member Posts: 3208
From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 09-27-2016 12:36 PM
He was wearing the STS-105 patch the next day at the crew ceremony in Houston.
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Tom
Member Posts: 1597
From: New York
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 09-27-2016 05:39 PM
No, it's definitely the STS-98 flight crew patch. |
Hart Sastrowardoyo
Member Posts: 3445
From: Toms River, NJ
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 09-27-2016 08:16 PM
Wish I had seen that photo with a clearer look that it is the STS-98 patch because I would have printed it out to show him! quote:
Originally posted by Robert Pearlman:
Maybe, for some reason, he was given Mark Polansky's...
That would then beg the question, how did he get Polansky's suit? Considering Polansky flew twice after 98, I would think he would have kept his suit unless some poor JSC dry cleaner got them mixed up...  |
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