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Topic: STS-125: Official Flight Kit (OFK)
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Robert Pearlman
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From: Houston, TX
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posted December 19, 2007 02:50 PM
   
This thread will offer details and updates concerning the contents of the STS-125 Official Flight Kit (OFK), as well as other mementos carried on-board the Hubble servicing mission.collectSPACE will present the full OFK manifest after Atlantis launches, including commentary about the mementos by the crew. IP: Logged |
Philip
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From: Brussels, BELGIUM
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posted December 19, 2007 02:55 PM
The International Astronomical Union (IAU) announced that the International Year of Astronomy 2009 logo will fly on the upcoming NASA Space Shuttle STS-125 to service the Hubble Space Telescope.  The logo will be on a small patch attached to the outside of a carrier for the Wide Field Camera. IP: Logged |
Robert Pearlman
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posted January 31, 2008 08:28 AM
Southfield Eccentric: OCC memento headed for outer space A memento from Oakland Community College will go to the frontiers of space in August when astronaut and 2003 OCC Outstanding Alumnus Andrew Feustel joins a seven-member NASA crew to make repairs on the orbiting Hubble Telescope.OCC interim Chancellor Clarence Brantley suggested that the college's students and employees be asked for proposals about a suitable item that might be sent on the trip. Along with such predictable suggestions as OCC flags and pennants, one contributor, bookstore manager Lisa Moore, humorously proposed an OCC-marked eyeglass cleaning cloth that could be used to polish Hubble's lens. IP: Logged |
Robert Pearlman
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posted April 17, 2008 06:34 PM
ABC News: Yankees vs. Mets -- in Space Reisman, a New Jersey native, brought up dirt from the Yankee Stadium pitcher's mound with him to the space station.Now, the Mets don't want to be outdone by the Yankees -- so they have given the home plate from Shea Stadium to astronaut Mike Massimino, who will fly on the shuttle Atlantis to repair the Hubble Space Telescope later this year. Massimino is trying to figure out how to pack home plate on Atlantis, which is complicated because it's larger than the lockers in which the astronauts carry their personal items for the entire mission. IP: Logged |
Tom
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posted August 02, 2008 08:53 PM
Mike Massimino (a longtime N.Y Mets fan) and fellow STS-125 spacewalker Mike Good were interviewed this evening during the Mets-Astros game in Houston.Massimino indicated that they will be taking home plate from Shea Stadium with them this October on their flight to Hubble. IP: Logged |
Robert Pearlman
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posted August 18, 2008 01:13 AM
New York Daily News:
Yankees sent dirt into space - now, Shea Stadium plate headed for orbit  Astronaut Mike Massimino (right) holds up the home plate used at Shea Stadium for the 2007 season during neutral buoyancy spacewalk training with Mike Good. Months after a Bomber-loving astronaut carried some dirt from Yankee Stadium into orbit, a Mets fan has upped the ante and will take a home plate from Shea into space this October.The home plate from the 2007 season was given by the Mets to Mike Massimino to fuel his rivalry with fellow astronaut and Yankees fan Garrett Reisman of Morristown, N.J. Reisman carried dirt from the Yankee Stadium pitcher's mound on the shuttle Endeavour mission in March. "We can do better than that, pal," said Massimino, 46, of Franklin Square, L.I. "We're flying a home plate from Shea." IP: Logged |
