LT. COLONEL DICK (FRANCIS R.) SCOBEE - SPECIAL COVER SIGNED CO-SIGNED BY: LT. COMMANDER DONALD L. MALLICK - HFSID 48188
Sale Price $295.00
Reg. $350.00
DICK SCOBEE and DON MALLICK
Dick Scobee and Don Mallick sign a special cover for the NASA jet
star shuttle test aircraft.
Special Cover signed: "Don Mallick" and "Dick
Scobee", 6½x3¾. Special Cover for the "NASA Jet Star Shuttle Test Aircraft
Space Shuttle Landing Tests.", 13-cent 13-star flag/Independence Hall stamp
affixed, postmarked Edwards, California, May 4, 1977. DON MALLICK
(born in 1930) was a NASA research pilot at the Dryden Flight Research
Center from 1963-1981, later becoming Deputy Chief of the Dryden Aircraft
Operations Division. Chief Pilot from 1967, he was involved in the
YF-12 and XB-70 research programs, and in the mid-1960s, he was chief
project pilot for NASA's Lunar Landing Research Vehicle (LLRV). FRANCIS
RICHARD SCOBEE (1939-1986) was pilot of Space Shuttle 41-C mission (1984)
that successfully deployed the Long Duration Exposure Facility, retrieved the
ailing Solar Maximum Satellite and repaired it on-board the orbiting
Challenger before replacing it in orbit using the robot arm called the
Remote Manipulator System. His next flight was aboard the Space Shuttle 51-L
mission, the ill-fated flight of the Challenger, which exploded 73
seconds after launch on January 28, 1986, killing Scobee and his six
colleagues.
Fine condition.
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