COLONEL JAMES C. "JIM" ADAMSON - COMMEMORATIVE ENVELOPE SIGNED - HFSID 46167
Price: $70.00
JAMES ADAMSON
Signed envelope commemorating the rollout of the space shuttle
Enterprise
Commemorative Envelope signed: "Jim Adamson", 6½3¾ Cachet
captioned: "NASA illustration of future shuttle expectations - First space
shuttle rollout at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. Enterprise rollout to Pad 39A.
Postmarked Kennedy Space Center, May 1, 1979, 15-cent US stamp affixed. James
Adamson (b. 1946), graduated from West Point in 1969, after leading the
Academy's pistol team to the national championship. He earned an M. S. in
aeronautical engineering from Princeton in 1977. As fighter pilot in
Vietnam, he earned many awards, including two Distinguished Service
Crosses. He joined NASA as a test pilot and aerodynamics officer
during the test phase of the space shuttle, hence his association with the wind
tunnel test. He spent 334 hours in space on two shuttle missions: STS-28
(Columbia), a 5-day classified mission in 1988; and STS-43
(Atlantis), which set a new record for payload boosted into orbit in
1991. After performing important research and administrative duties for NASA, he
moved to the private sector in 1992, where his posts included President and
CEO of Lockheed (1994) and Chief Operating Officer of the United Space
Alliance (a Lockheed - Rockwell consortium contracted to NASA) in 1995. Corners
lightly creased. fine condition.
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