Posts: 1043
From: Dallas
Registered: Jan 2004

posted 07-09-2017 11:21 AM               

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Looking to sell a flown t-shirt that was carried by Bob Springer on STS-29. It was carried by Springer as part of the flight's official flight kit (OFK) and it still is packaged inside it's flown sealed plastic bag. So it's never been opened post-flight. He signed the bag as being "flown on STS-29" and it also comes with a hand signed LOA from him detailing the history of the shirt.

Apparently, the shirt was flown by request of the neighborhood in which he was living at the time, but the group that asked him to fly it (perhaps a HOA?) disbanded by the time the mission launched, thus it was never given back and kept by Springer. Interesting to note as well that inside the bag is also a post-it note with the #59 on it which perhaps could be the OFK inventory?
sold... thanks to the buyer. — Jason