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Topic: Manned (Space) Flight Awareness medallions
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Robert Pearlman
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From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 01-04-2000 10:39 PM
   
Can we confirm that the following is a complete list of all of the NASA Manned Flight Awareness Office (later Space Flight Awareness) medallions? - Apollo 8
- Apollo 11
- Apollo-Soyuz
- Skylab
- Approach & Landing Tests
- STS-1
- STS-3
- STS-5 (NASA 25th Anniversary)
- STS-71
- STS-88
- Apollo 30th Anniversary (Aluminum)
- Apollo 30th Anniversary (Bronze)
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Dennis Beatty
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Registered: Jan 2000
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posted 06-24-2000 01:36 AM
I know of at least one medallion not on the list, the 2nd Anniversary of Apollo 11. It is the same Apollo 11 medallion but it is gold plated. It comes in a plastic holder with an appropriate description.The other medallion may not fit your strict criteria of being issued by NASA, but there is a medallion which was issued by NACA. It contains metal from an X-1 and a Curtiss Jenny (if my memory serves me). |
astronut
Member Posts: 969
From: South Fork, CO
Registered: Mar 2000
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posted 07-20-2000 12:41 AM
There is a silver (.999) Apollo 30th Anniversary medallion. I just bought one from the daughter of a high-ranking ex-NASA employee. She says there were only 189 of these medals made. |
astronut
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From: South Fork, CO
Registered: Mar 2000
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posted 08-14-2000 10:43 PM
I just found a Mir/Shuttle medallion like the STS-71, but it's from STS-89. It's aluminum and shows a shuttle in launch phase on the front, and has the description, date, and mission number overlaid on an image of Mir on the back. |
astronut
Member Posts: 969
From: South Fork, CO
Registered: Mar 2000
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posted 11-03-2000 12:42 AM
While not a MFA medallion, I've just acquired a medallion celebrating the 20th anniversary of ASTP with metal flown in the Atlantis space shuttle to MIR (mission unknown, though STS-71 is probable). It came encased in lucite. |
Joel Katzowitz
Member Posts: 821
From: Marietta GA USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 02-12-2009 07:17 PM
I've got a STS-98 SFA medallion. It's bronze in color and commemorates the US Destiny laboratory. |
Ken Havekotte
Member Posts: 3140
From: Merritt Island, Florida, Brevard
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 02-12-2009 10:30 PM
Missed this thread before, but there is a Spacelab-related bronze medallion that contains metal flown on Neurolab (STS-90/Columbia), the 16th pressurized module flight in the 15 year history of Spacelab human space operations. It was a joint ESA-NASA issued medallion, however, very few of them are seldom seen (I only have two of them myself)! There are a few others that contain various spacecraft metals, including one of my favorites from the National Space Club, but they're not official SFA productions. |
Robert Pearlman
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From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 02-12-2009 10:53 PM
In the time since this thread was started nine years ago, a number of other flown-melt medallions have either come to light or have been issued. To build off the original list posted in January 2000, the Manned Flight Awareness medals, which are those issued by NASA's Manned Flight Awareness (now Space Flight Awareness) Office include: - Apollo 8
- Apollo 11 (Aluminum, Gold-Plated)
- Apollo-Soyuz
- Skylab
- Approach & Landing Tests
- STS-1
- STS-3
- STS-5 (NASA 25th Anniversary)
- STS-71
- STS-88 (Aluminum, Bronze, Silver)
- Apollo 30th Anniversary (Aluminum, Bronze, Silver)
- STS-98 (Aluminum, Bronze, Silver)
- STS-114 (as a team award)
In addition, there are similar medals issued by other project offices, contractors and private mints which fall into the similar category of flown-metal melt medals: - Apollo 8 (Eastern Airlines)
- Apollo 13 (Franklin Mint)
- Apollo 14 (Franklin Mint)
- Skylab (issuer unknown)
- STS-41D (McDonnell Douglas)
- STS-42 (World Space Congress)
- STS-42/94 (Yuri's Night)
- STS-89 (MSFC Space Shuttle Project Office)
- STS-90 (ESA-NASA)
There are also medals without flown metal but which were still minted with parts from spacecraft or hardware related to spaceflight: - Viking 1 (Martin Marietta)
- Maiden Flights (Port Canaveral)
- 40th Anniversary of Americans in Orbit (Astronaut Scholarship Foundation)
- 30th Anniversary of SSME Tests (NASA Stennis Space Center)
There are other medals that don't really fit into any of the above categories, such as the Apollo 11 medals that were struck using a die that flew on the mission and the Spacelab 1 coins that flew on STS-9, much like the Robbins medals but for agency presentations. |
328KF
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Registered: Apr 2008
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posted 02-13-2009 10:50 PM
Add the Apollo 7 40th anniversary medal from the Frontiers of Flight Museum in Dallas. |
TRS
Member Posts: 721
From: Wellington, New Zealand
Registered: Mar 2003
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posted 02-14-2009 01:18 AM
Regarding the Port Canaveral medallions, I understand these were minted using a small amount of material form the launchpad and from the SRBs. Would the SRB content promote them into the "flown" category? |
Ken Havekotte
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From: Merritt Island, Florida, Brevard
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 02-14-2009 08:50 PM
No, the Port medallions were made, mostly in part, from conduits of the 31-feet high tail service masts of the launch platform bases that were used for the maiden shuttle orbiter flights. There were no materials expended that were actually flown.There is also another Port medallion, similar to the shuttle medallions mentioned above, that contained metal expended in the first commercial launch of Titan III in 1989. As for the Apollo 30th anniversary medallions, produced by Galaxy here locally, I don't think any were official issues of SFA. I do recall one of those committee meetings in 1999 here on the Space Coast, of which I was a member and attended, regarding a 30th anniversary medallion discussion project. If I recall correctly, NASA may had requested some of the medallions for agency promotional give-a-way programs. Rather those allocations from the space agency qualify the Apollo anniversary medallions as an official SFA product, I don't believe so, and there is no mention of "SFA" anywhere on the medallions nor any supporting documentation. In addition to the Port series and MFA/SFA medallions mentioned, there are a few other medallions that perhaps should be included here. Others were made from launch pad relics, different Skylab productions, and a few other company-issued pieces. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 45383
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 02-14-2009 08:58 PM
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Originally posted by Ken Havekotte:
I don't think any of the Apollo 30th anniversary medallions, produced by Galaxy here locally, were official issues of SFA.
Interesting. I was told that some quantity (how many I don't know) were distributed to employees at Johnson Space Center, and the same for NASA Headquarters. They were also distributed by NASA at a private breakfast for members of Congress celebrating the 30th anniversary. That said, I have yet to see a presentation certificate or card, as usually accompanies SFA products. The STS-71, STS-88 and STS-98 medals all had SFA documents. |
TRS
Member Posts: 721
From: Wellington, New Zealand
Registered: Mar 2003
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posted 03-03-2009 02:56 AM
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Originally posted by Ken Havekotte:
No, the Port medallions were made, mostly in part, from conduits of the 31-feet high tail service masts of the launch platform bases that were used for the maiden shuttle orbiter flights. There were no materials expended that were actually flown.
I've based my information on the card contained in the sleeve that comes with the Port Canaveral Coin, the indication is that there is component from the actual shuttle stack. I also understand there is another variant of these cards stating that is is minted using metals from the maiden flight.Might it be the case that there are two issues of the Port Canaverals, one with and one without flown component? This seems to my mind to explain the different issues of the coins (e.g. Cruise Ship version, Shuttle and Anchor Version, Text version). |
Ken Havekotte
Member Posts: 3140
From: Merritt Island, Florida, Brevard
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 03-03-2009 04:17 PM
Chuck Rowland, a former Port Director here at the Cape, told me in a letter dated Aug. 1983, "the aluminum, blended with the stock from which the medallions for STS-1 were stamped, was part of a conduit which contained electrical connections from the launch platform to the shuttle and which was destroyed during the launch. It did not go with Columbia into space..." Mr. Rowland also told me personally that the Canaveral Port Authority produced a total of 10,000 medallions in two production runs and that both were identical. Later, KSC-NASA public relations confirmed what Rowland had indicated and also informed me that it was indeed an electrical conduit from the pad's tail service masts, as it could no longer be used for another shuttle liftoff. If there was a third production run of the medallions, I am certainly not aware of it, and after 25+ years since the maiden voyage, it would to me seem very unlikely. |
Rocket Chris
Member Posts: 371
From: Guttentag
Registered: Nov 2009
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posted 01-02-2021 03:57 AM
Does anyone have more details concerning this medal? Is it also a MFA medal, what about mintage, source, material? |
tnperri
Member Posts: 483
From: Malvern, Ohio
Registered: Jun 2011
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posted 01-02-2021 06:46 AM
Not a MFA/SFA. See here: The Space Shuttle Endeavour launched on May 16, 2011 at 8:56 a.m. EDT commanded by Mark Kelly and his crew of five. STS-134 headed for the International Space Station on a 16-day mission transporting nickel-silver material that would later be used to fabricate coins to help commemorate the history of the Space Shuttle Program...This coin was presented by Major General(Retired) and Astronaut Charles F. Boldin, Jr., NASA Administrator. |
Rocket Chris
Member Posts: 371
From: Guttentag
Registered: Nov 2009
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posted 01-04-2021 01:32 AM
Thanks for that quick reply. On cS folks there can always be relied on!Although it is not a SFA coin, I think for 16$ a nice add-on to the collection. |
denali414
Member Posts: 723
From: Raleigh, NC
Registered: Aug 2017
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posted 01-12-2021 09:11 AM
Nice pick up Chris! You got a real bargain on that coin! Congrats. |
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