posted 11-20-2011 12:39 PM               

Space Cover #136: Rollout of Shuttle Enterprise

With the retirement of the space shuttle earlier this year, I thought I'd show an autographed cover from the early history of the program.

The above cover was autographed by the following shuttle officials:

1. NASA-HQ Program Director, Dr. Myron Malkin
   
2. JSC Program Director, Robert Thompson
   
3. JSC Orbiter Project Manager, Aaron Cohen
   
4. JSC ALT Program Manager, Deke Slayton
   
5. KSC Project Manager, Dr. Robert Gray
   
6. MSFC Project Manager, Robert Lindstrom
   
7. MSFC SRB Project Manager, George Hardy
   
8. MSFC ET Project Manager, James Odom
   
9. MSFC SSME Project Manager, James Thompson

All the shuttle project officials were very receptive to autograph requests.

The above photo was received in reply to an autograph request. The crews were very receptive to autograph requests.

posted 11-22-2011 02:53 PM               

Some could say that this event, and this date, Sept. 17, 1976, was the beginning of the Space Shuttle Program, while the date, July 21, 2011, the date that Atlantis landed on STS-135, was the official end of it.