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The STS-107 Official Flight Kit

This article and manifest was published on January 16, 2003, a few minutes after the STS-107 launch. Other than this note, the text below has been unaltered as an archive of what was flown.

January 16, 2003 — Fire balls, sleeping astronauts, kidney stones, and spongelike rocks are all part of the mix of experiments and research that will occupy the crew of STS-107 aboard Columbia. The flight serves as a bridge from research conducted aboard the Space Shuttle in the 1980s and '90s and the long-term work planned for the International Space Station when it is completed.


Launch of STS-107/Columbia. (Ben Cooper/collectSPACE)

STS-107 also marks the first flight of an Israeli astronaut, Ilan Ramon, and the second mission for India's first female astronaut, Kalpana Chawla. Rounding out the crew are Commander Rick Husband, Pilot William McCool, and Mission Specialists David Brown, Michael Anderson, and Laurel Clark.

As with each shuttle mission, the STS-107 crew is flying their choice of souvenirs and mementos, assembled together as the Official Flight Kit (OFK) and stowed inside a middeck locker for the duration of the flight.

In addition to the usual patches and medallions, the STS-107 OFK manifest (as presented below) includes an artist's drawing on loan from the Yad Vashem Memorial in Jerusalem, Israel. Titled "Moon Landscape", it depicts the Earth from the Moon as imagined by 14 year old Holocaust victim Petr Ginz.

  


Mission patch representing space shuttle Columbia's STS-107 crew and their 16-day science mission. (A-B Emblem)

No.   Description   Sponsor/Purpose
 

1.

 

590 STS-107 Crew Patches

 

Agency Presentation

 

2.

 

300 Small United States Flags

 

Agency Presentation

 

3.

 

2 Sets U.S. States & Territories Flags

 

Agency Presentation

 

4.

 

3 Sets United Nations Members Flags

 

Agency Presentation

 

5.

 

  1. 5 Small Russian Flags

  2. 5 Small Ukraine Flags

  3. 5 Small NASA Flags

  4. 25 Small Texas Flags

  5. 5 Large Texas Lapel Pins

 

Agency Presentation

6.

 

1 Set of Small Russian Territorial Flags

 

Agency Presentation

 

7.

 

  1. 5 Large Meatball Lapel Pins

  2. 5 Small Gold International Space Station Lapel Pins

  3. 5 Small Gold NASA Seals

  4. 1 Large Pewter NASA Seal

 

Agency Presentation

8.

 

  1. 5 US/Japan Friendship Pins

  2. 5 US/Russia Friendship Pins

  3. 5 US/Spain Friendship Pins

  4. 5 US/Italy Friendship Pins

  5. 5 US/Canada Friendship Pins

  6. 5 US/Mexico Friendship Pins

  7. 5 US/Israel Friendship Pins

 

Agency Presentation

Items 9 through 30 are manifested at the request of the STS-107 Payload Customers.

 

9.

 

  1. 100 MSTRS Patches

  2. 100 STS-107 Crew Patches (STARS Bootes)

  3. 20 StarNav Patches

  4. 50 CMPCG NASDA Patches

  5. 300 STS-107 Crew Patches (RDM)

  6. 100 CM-2 Patches

 

SPACEHAB Payload Customer Items

10.

 

  1. 50 Small Japanese Flags

  2. 50 Small NASDA Flags

  3. 10 Large DLR Flags (CEBAS)

  4. 30 Large German Flags

  5. 1 Small German Flag

 

SPACEHAB Payload Customer Items

11.

 

  1. 50 NASDA Lapel Pins

  2. 50 CM-2 Lapel Pins

 

SPACEHAB Payload Customer Items

12.

 

  1. 500 SPACEHAB Bookmarks

  2. 125 STARS Bookmarks

  3. 125 STARS Bookmarks 2

  4. 500 Small Hologram Card

  5. 250 Large Hologram Card

 

SPACEHAB Payload Customer Items

13.

 

  1. 500 STARS Decals

  2. 100 CM-2 Decals

  3. 50 CM-2 Softball Decals

  4. 50 CM-2 LSP Decals

  5. 40 CEBAS Decals

 

SPACEHAB Payload Customer Items

14.

 

  1. 7 Ink Pens

  2. 1 Picture

 

SPACEHAB Payload Customer Items

15.

 

  1. 38 CEBAS Pins

  2. 100 COM2PLEX Pins

  3. 25 ESA Patches

  4. 30 CSA Lapel Pins

  5. 150 OSTEO Payload Decals

  6. 14 STS-107 Crew Patches (CSA)

  7. 50 Ant Experiment Patches (STARS-Bootes)

 

SPACEHAB Payload Customer Items

16.

 

  1. 100 Small NASA Flags

  2. 100 Small US Flags

  3. 300 STS-107 Code U Patches

  4. 50 Biotube Decals

  5. 1 University of Louisiana Flag

  6. 1 Biotube Flag

  7. 17 Sheets KSC Rocket Science Decals

  8. 30 STS-107 Fundamental Biology Patches

 

Payload Customer Presentation Items

17.

 

63 MGM Patches

 

Payload Customer Presentation Items

 

18.

 

  1. 75 Each CPCG Patches

  2. 75 Small US Flags

 

Payload Customer Presentation Items

19.

 

200 STS-107 Fundamental Biology Decals

 

Payload Customer Presentation Items

 

20.

 

  1. 8 Colorado School of Mines Decals

  2. 8 Water Mist Patches

  3. 8 Colorado School of Mines Patches

  4. 32 Small Mexico University Flags

  5. 10 Small Mexico Flags

  6. 4 CM-2 Lapel Pins

  7. 6 CCACS Lapel Pins

  8. 25 CM-2 Decals

 

Payload Customer Presentation Items

21.

 

  1. 8 STS-107 Crew Patches

  2. 25 SAMS-FF Decals

  3. 25 PIMS Decals

 

Payload Customer Presentation Items

22.

 

  1. 7 STS-107 Crew Patches

  2. 1 OARE Pin

  3. 27 GRC OARE Decals

  4. 27 OARE Decals

  5. 7 STS-40 Decals

  6. 7 STS-50 Decals

  7. 7 STS-58 Decals

  8. 7 STS-62 Decals

  9. 7 STS-65 Decals

  10. 7 STS-73 Decals

  11. 7 STS-75 Decals

  12. 7 STS-78 Decals

  13. 7 STS-83 Decals

  14. 7 STS-87 Decals

  15. 7 STS-94 Decals

 

Payload Customer Presentation Items

23.

 

  1. 150 FREESTAR Decals

  2. 50 FREESTAR Pins

 

Payload Customer Presentation Items

24.

 

100 CVX-2 Decals

 

Payload Customer Presentation Items

 

25.

 

  1. 5 Educational Astronomy CDs

  2. 50 MEIDEX Decals

  3. 1 Small Open University Flag

  4. 1 Open University Medallion

 

Payload Customer Presentation Items

26.

 

  1. 50 SEM Decals

  2. 1 NYC Student Pictures

 

Payload Customer Presentation Items

27.

 

100 LPT Decals

 

Payload Customer Presentation Items

 

28.

 

20 RAMBO Patches

 

Payload Customer Presentation Items

 

29.

 

450 SSP Bookmarks

 

Space Shuttle Program

 

30.

 

100 STS-107 Crew Patches

 

Space Shuttle Program

 

31.

 

10 Small Flags of Texas

 

Agency Presentation

 

32.

 

18 Small Flags of Washington

 

Agency Presentation

 

33.

 

10 Small Flags of Virginia

 

Agency Presentation

 

34.

 

110 Small Flags of India

 

Agency Presentation

 

35.

 

9 Small Flags of Wisconsin

 

Agency Presentation

 

36.

 

1 Small Flag of New York

 

Agency Presentation

 

37.

 

2 Small Flags of Guam

 

Agency Presentation

 

38.

 

110 Small Flags of Israel

 

Agency Presentation

 

39.

 

20 Small US Air Force Flags

 

Agency Presentation

 

40.

 

30 Small US Navy Flags

 

Agency Presentation

 

41.

 

10 Small Israeli Air Force Flags

 

Agency Presentation

 

42.

 

10 Small US Marine Corp Flags

 

Agency Presentation

 

43.

 

10 Small US Army Flags

 

Agency Presentation

 

44.

 

10 Small US Coast Guard Flags

 

Agency Presentation

 

45.

 

  1. 10 Small US Flags

  2. 10 Small Alabama State Flags

 

Marshall Space Flight Center

46.

 

2 Small US Flags

 

Kennedy Space Center

 

47.

 

  1. 10 Small Louisiana State Flags

  2. 10 Small Mississippi State Flags

  3. 5 Small NASA Flags

  4. 5 Small US Flags

 

Stennis Space Center

48.

 

  1. 80 Silver Snoopy Pins

  2. 250 Small Columbia Flags

 

NASA Space Flight Awareness

49.

 

10 STS-107 Embroidered Crew Patches

 

Boeing Space Flight Awareness

 

50.

 

  1. 10 STS-107 Embroidered Crew Patches

  2. 10 Small US Flags

  3. 20 Space & Missile Systems Center Commander Coins

  4. 1 DSCS B8 Satellite Mission Patch

  5. 1 DSCS B11 Satellite Mission Patch

  6. 1 MILSATCOM Unit Coin

  7. 1 Space & Missile Systems Center Los Angeles Air Force Base (LAAFB) Coin

  8. 2 350ARS Red Falcon Unit Patches

  9. 1 350ARS Red Falcon Unit Scarf

  10. 1 354th Trans Sq Unit Coin

  11. 1 354th Operations Spt Sq Unit Coin

 

JSC USAF Presentation

51.

 

25 SR&QA Patches

 

JSC Safety, Reliability, and Quality Assurance Office

 

52.

 

12 Silver Pegasus Lapel Pins

 

JSC Public Affairs Office

 

53.

 

50 Space and Life Sciences Patches

 

JSC Space and Life Sciences Office

 

Items 54 through 132 are manifested at the request of the STS-107 crewmembers.

 

54.

 

1 Cloth Banner of First Graders

 

St. Thomas The Apostle Parish School, Nassau Bay, TX

 

55.

 

1 Organization Patch

 

Society of United States Naval Flight Surgeons, Pensacola Naval Air Station, FL

 

56.

 

1 Healthstar Medallion

 

University of Wisconsin School of Medicine, Madison, WI

 

57.

 

1 National Naval Medical Center Medallion

 

National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, MD

 

58.

 

1 Academic Patch

 

William Horlick High School, Racine, WI

 

59.

 

1 Organization T-shirt

 

Naval Undersea Medical Institute, Groton, CT

 

60.

 

1 Organization Patch

 

Rock Art Foundation, San Antonio, TX

 

61.

 

1 Small US Flag

 

Naval Diving Salvage Training Center, Panama City, FL

 

62.

 

1 Mascot

 

University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

 

63.

 

1 Squadron Patch

 

VMA211, Yuma, AZ

 

64.

 

1 Museum Flag

 

Israel Air Force Museum, Beer Sheva, Israel

 

65.

 

1 City Flag

 

Municipality of Beer-Sheva, Beer-Sheva, Israel

 

66.

 

1 City Flag

 

Municipality of Ramat-Gan, Ramat-Gan, Israel

 

67.

 

1 Stone Paperweight

 

Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

 

68.

 

1 Air Force Flag

 

Israeli Air Force, Karmey Joseph, Israel

 

69.

 

1 Artist Drawing

 

Museum of Yad Vashem, Jerusalem Israel

 

70.

 

1 School Flag

 

Blich High School, Ramat-Gan

 

71.

 

1 Agency Flag

 

Office of the President, Jerusalem Israel

 

72.

 

1 Agency Flag

 

Israeli Space Agency, Tel Aviv, Israel

 

73.

 

1 Organization T-Shirt

 

People in Red, Tel Aviv, Israel

 

74.

 

1 Bound Retirement Program

 

Morning Baptist Church, Spokane, WA

 

75.

 

1 Picket Medallion

 

The 9th & 10th Horse Calvary Assoc., Houston, TX

 

76.

 

1 Guidon

 

Buffalo Soldiers National Museum, Houston, TX

 

77.

 

1 Organization T-shirt

 

Bronze Eagle Flying Club, Houston, TX

 

78.

 

1 School T-shirt

 

Avondale Elementary School, Avondale, AZ

 

79.

 

1 University Pendant

 

Prairie View A&M University Department of Military Science, Prairie View, TX

 

80.

 

1 Organization Patch

 

San Jacinto Girl Scouts Discovery Science Unit, Houston, TX

 

81.

 

1 Sheriff's Badge

 

Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, Houston, TX

 

82.

 

1 Academy Pennant

 

United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD

 

83.

 

1 Organization Patch

 

Prowler Community, Whidbey Island Naval Air Station, WA

 

84.

 

1 Blue Boy Scout Handkerchief

 

Boy Scout Troup #632, Guam

 

85.

 

1 Pine Cone

 

Anacortes Community Forest Land, Ramsey, NJ

 

86.

 

1 World Hunger Map

 

World Food Programe, Rome Italy

 

87.

 

1 US Flag

 

The For All Kids Foundation, Ramsey, NJ

 

88.

 

1 Organization T-shirt

 

Medicine Sans Frontiers Doctors Without Borders, New York, NY

 

89.

 

1 Book Jacket

 

Interplast, Inc., Mountain View, CA

 

90.

 

1 Coronado Mustang Towel

 

Coronado High School, Lubbock, TX

 

91.

 

1 Small Piece of Pillow Basalt

 

Olympic National Park, Port Angeles, WA

 

92.

 

1 Center Banner

 

Discovery Center, Amarillo, TX

 

93.

 

1 Organization T-shirt

 

Texas Musical Drama, Canyon, TX

 

94.

 

1 Baseball Cap

 

Focus on the Family, Colorado Springs, CO

 

95.

 

1 Ranch Flag

 

Cal Farley's Boys Ranch, Amarillo, TX

 

96.

 

1 Organization Patch

 

Air Force Space Command, Colorado Springs, CO

 

97.

 

1 Tau Beta Pi Key

 

Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

 

98.

 

1 Map

 

The National Outdoor Leadership School, Lander, WY

 

99.

 

1 Organization T-shirt

 

700 Club, Virginia Beach, VA

 

100.

 

1 Organization Flag

 

Jack B. Kelley, Inc., Amarillo, TX

 

101.

 

1 Thomas Kincaid Print

 

Media Arts Group, Morgan Hill, CA

 

102.

 

1 Organization T-shirt

 

University of Texas-Arlington, Arlington, TX

 

103.

 

1 Museum Flag

 

National Council of Science Museum, New Delhi, India

 

104.

 

1 Club Flag

 

New Delhi, India

 

105.

 

1 City Flag

 

Tagore School, Karnal, India

 

106.

 

1 Planetarium Flag

 

Nehru Planetarium, New Delhi, India

 

107.

 

1 Collage of Pictures Customized Flag

 

University of Colorado Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Boulder, CO

 

108.

 

1 Drawing of King and Queen Banner

 

City of Karnal, Karnal, India

 

109.

 

1 Collage of Pictures Customized Flag

 

Punjab Engineering College, Chandiagarh, India

 

110.

 

1 Patricia-Hilliard Robertson Dedication Flag

 

Indiania University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, Pennsylvania

 

111.

 

1 Collage of Pictures Customized Banner

 

City of Chandrigarh, Chandrigarh, India

 

112.

 

1 Organization Cloth Patch

 

Ft. McKavett State Historical Site, Ft. McKavett, TX

 

113.

 

1 Red, White & Blue Scarf

 

Darlene Conoly Travel, Beeville, TX

 

114.

 

1 School T-shirt

 

McKinley Elementary School, Arlington, TX

 

115.

 

1 School T-shirt

 

Rocky Mountain Elementary School, Clifton, CO

 

116.

 

1 Medical School Banner

 

Eastern Virginal Medical School, Norfolk, VA

 

117.

 

1 School Flag

 

Roger Sherman School Flag, Fairfield, CT

 

118.

 

1 School Tea Towel

 

Salisbury C.E. Primary School, Blackburn, Lancashire, England

 

119.

 

1 School Flag

 

Yorktown High School, Arlington, VA

 

120.

 

1 Paper Resolution

 

Guam Legislature, Guam

 

121.

 

1 Gold Astronaut Pin

 

Agency Presentation

 

122.

 

1 Silver Air Force Wings

 

Agency Presentation

 

123.

 

1 Gold Astronaut Pin

 

Agency Presentation

 

124.

 

1 Gold Navy Wings

 

Agency Presentation

 

125.

 

1 Silver Air Force Wings

 

Agency Presentation

 

126.

 

1 Gold Astronaut Pin

 

Agency Presentation

 

127.

 

1 Gold Navy Wings

 

Agency Presentation

 

128.

 

1 Gold Astronaut Pin

 

Agency Presentation

 

129.

 

1 Gold Navy Wings

 

Agency Presentation

 

130.

 

1 Gold Astronaut Pin

 

Agency Presentation

 

131.

 

1 Israeli Air Force Wings

 

Agency Presentation


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