First Space Shuttle Flight Achievement Award & Columbia STS-1 Flown Metal Coin for Sale

First Space Shuttle Flight Achievement Award & Columbia STS-1 Flown Metal Coin For Sale

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First Space Shuttle Flight Achievement Award & Columbia STS-1 Flown Metal Coin:
$65.00

This Will Be My Last Offering of ThisFirst Space Shuttle Flight Achievement Award & Columbia STS-1 Flown MetalCoin. Go for it Now, or you will have to find Another, as I will just Keep ItMyself!

Rare, First Space Shuttle Flight Achievement Award,Employees presentation letter,and ShuttleColumbia STS-1 Flown Metal Mission Medallion

Both items Issued c.1981

TheFirst Shuttle Flight Achievement Award, Employee letter, and STS-1Flown Metal Mission Medallion shown here, are what you will receive

Accompanying is a letter dated October 1981 from Rockwell International’s / RocketdyneDivision President N.J. (Norm) Ryker, forwarding this Achievement Award andMedal from the NASA and Astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen to a NamedRocketdyne Employee. The employees name,along with the Department Number and Mail Stop are covered on the letter forprivacy

Rocketdyne was an Americanrocket enginedesignand production company headquartered inCanoga Park, in the westernSan Fernando ValleyofsuburbanLos Angeles, in southernCalifornia.

The following are the items up for offer-

First Shuttle Flight Achievement AwardCertificate “The crew of Columbia is pleased to presentyou this medallion in appreciation of your contribution to the success of theFirst Manned Orbital Flight of the Space Shuttle”.Certificate measures 8.5\'\' x 11\'\'.

Rockwell International - Rocketdyne Division Employees presentation letter. Employees name, department, and mail stop are hidden in the picture.

Shuttle Columbia STS-1 Mission Medallion \"Thank you for your contribution towardmaking the world\'s first orbital flight of the Space Shuttle STS-1 possible. Wewould like you to have this memento made, in part, of metal taken from theColumbia” Medal measures 1.5\'\' in diameter andweighs half an ounce, or 15 grams.

All of the items are Original.

Condition:First Shuttle Flight Achievement Award Certificate and Shuttle Columbia STS-1Flown Metal Mission Medal are both in Excellent condition.

The Achievement Award Certificateexhibits no folds, bends, tears, dog ears, yellowing/foxing, or writing, as is the Employees Presentation Letter. TheColors are Bright, Graphics are Very Legible.

The STS-1 Flown Metal Mission Medalexhibits no scratches, nicks, dents, gouges, or corrosion. Surface condition isas medal was presented.

Please see all attached pictures.

Shipping includes a Tracking Number.

Rocketdyne’s History

AfterWorld War II,North American Aviation(NAA) was contracted by the DefenseDepartment to study the GermanV-2 missileand adapt its engine toSociety ofAutomotive Engineers(SAE)measurements and U.S. construction details. NAA also used the same generalconcept of separate burner/injectors from the V-2 engine design to build a muchlarger engine for theNavaho missileproject(1946-1958). This work was considered unimportant in the 1940s and funded at avery low level, but the start of theKorean Warin1950 changed priorities. NAA had begun to use theSanta Susana Field Laboratory(SSFL) high in theSimi Hillsaround1947 for the Navaho\'s rocket engine testing. At that time the site was muchfurther away from major populated areas than the early test sites NAA had beenusing within Los Angeles.

Navaho ran into continual difficultiesand was canceled in 1958 when theChrysler CorporationMissileDivision\'sRedstone missiledesign (essentially an improved V-2) hadcaught up in development. However the Rocketdyne engine, known as the A-5 orNAA75-110, proved to be considerably more reliable than the one developed forRedstone, so the missile was redesigned with the A-5 even though the resultingmissile had much shorter range.

As the missile entered production, NAAspun off Rocketdyne in 1955 as a separate division, and built its new plant inthe then small Los Angeles suburb ofCanoga Park, in theSan Fernando Valleynear and below its Santa Susana FieldLaboratory.

In 1967, NAA, with its RocketdyneandAtomics Internationaldivisions, merged with the RockwellCorporation to form North American Rockwell, becoming in 1973Rockwell International.

Rocketdyne and the NASA

Rocketdyne also became the majorsupplier forNASA\'sdevelopment efforts, supplying all of the major engines for theSaturn rocket, and potentially, the hugeNova rocketdesigns.Rocketdyne\'sH-1enginewas used by theSaturn Iboostermain stage. FiveF-1enginespowered theSaturn V\'s,S-IC, first stage, while fiveJ-2enginespowered itsS-IIsecondstage, and one J-2 theS-IVBthirdstages. By 1965, Rocketdyne built the vast majority of United States rocketengines, excepting those of theTitan rocket, and its payroll had grown to 65,000. Thissort of growth appeared to be destined to continue in the 1970s when Rocketdynewon the contract for theRS-25 Space Shuttle Main Engine(SSME), but the rapid downturn in othermilitary and civilian contracts led to downsizing of the company. NorthAmerican Aviation, largely a spacecraft manufacturer, and also tied almostentirely to theSpace Shuttle,merged with the Rockwell Corporation in 1966 to form the North AmericanRockwell company, which becameRockwell Internationalin 1973, with Rocketdyne as a majordivision.

Some of the rocket engines developed by Rocketdyneare:

Rocketdyne A1to A6 (LOX/Alcohol)Used on Redstone

Rocketdyne A7(LOX/Alcohol)Used on Jupiter C

Rocketdyne16NS-1,000

Rocketdyne Kiwi Nuclear rocket engine

Rocketdyne M-34

Rocketdyne MA-2

Rocketdyne MA-3

Rocketdyne MB-3see S-3D

Rocketdyne Megaboom modular sled rocket

Rocketdyne P

Rocketdyne LR64

Rocketdyne LR70

Rocketdyne LR89

Rocketdyne LR79family (XLR71-NA-1, B-2C, XLR83-NA-1,LR79-7, S-3D, XLR89-1, MB-3-1, X-1, LR83-NA-1, H-1, LR89-5, XLR89-5, S-3,LR89-7, MB-3-J, MB-3 Press Mod, MB-3-3, RZ.2, H-1c, H-1b, RS-27, RS-27A,RS-56-OBA, RS-27C)

Rocketdyne LR-101Vernier engine used by Atlas, Thor andDelta

Rocketdyne LR105family (S-4, LR105-5, XLR105-5, LR105-7,RS-56-OSA, LR105-3)

Rocketdyne Aeolus

Rocketdyne XRS-2200,linear aerospike engine, tested forX-33

Rocketdyne RS-2200,linear aerospike engine, intended forVenturestar

Rocketdyne S-3D(RP-1/LOX) Used onPGM-19 JupiterandPGM-17 Thormissiles, and on theJuno II

Rocketdyne E-1(RP-1/LOX) Backup design for theTitan I

Rocketdyne F-1(RP-1/LOX) Used by theSaturn V.

Rocketdyne H-1(RP-1/LOX) Used by theSaturn IandIB

Rocketdyne J-2(LH2/LOX) Used by both the Saturn V and Saturn IB.

Rocketdyne RS-25 Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME)(LH2/LOX) The main engine for theSpace Shuttle,also used on theSpace Launch System

Rocketdyne RS-27A(RP-1/LOX) Used by the DeltaII/IIIandAtlas ICBM