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Topic: Space Hipsters 'Signature Edition' patches

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Message to Edit: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	Originally posted by Robert Pearlman on 11-12-2023 03:53 PM collectSPACE <blockquote><font size="+0"><a href="http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-111223a-astronaut-john-herrington-signature-edition-patch.html">Chickasaw Nation astronaut 'signs' patches for Native American girls' Space Camp fund</a></font> [i]The first enrolled member of a Native American tribe to fly into space is helping inspire a new generation of Native American girls to possibly to do the same with a limited edition emblem that celebrates their shared heritage and his time as a NASA astronaut. John Herrington, who flew on a 2002 space shuttle mission and is a member of the Chickasaw Nation, helped design and provided his autograph for the latest "Signature Edition" patch offered by the nearly 50,000-member Space Hipsters group on Facebook. The collectible is intended a fundraiser for the non-profit Taking Up Space, which has created a 36-week science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) curriculum and organizes trips for middle-school-age Native American girls to the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama to attend Space Camp.[/i]</blockquote> <center><a href="http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-111223a-astronaut-john-herrington-signature-edition-patch.html" target="AirLock"><img src="http://www.collectspace.com/images/news-111223a-lg.jpg" width="400" height="265" border="0"></a></center>
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