Space Shuttle Ephemera

While going through some old papers, I ran across a trifold schematic of the controls of the Space Shuttle Columbia, which had printed on the reverse side the ground track for the first half of the 7-day STS-3 flight. STS-3 was the third space shuttle mission, lasting from March 22, 1982 to March 30th, 1982.

Near as I can remember, I received this in a pack of materials from NASA after I called them out of the blue when I was a Young Astronaut in the mid-80’s. Yes, I called. That’s also how I managed to secure a box full of Space Pepsi cans from Pepsi-Co for my Young Astronauts chapter. I did stuff like that.

By the way, I’m still not an Astronaut.

I feel I’ve failed someone. Somewhere.

Anyhoo, here are scans of the fold-out. Click on the thumbnail below them for a larger view.

-Ken Plume

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