Color glossy 11 x 14 composite photo of four images from the STS-6 mission, featuring a flown embroidered mission patch affixed to center, with text to bottom of photo reading: "This patch was flown aboard the first flight of the Space Shuttle 'Challenger,' (STS-6) April 4-9, 1983." The photo is affixed to its original 16 x 20 mount, signed on the lower mount in black felt tip by Paul Weitz, Story Musgrave, Karol 'Bo' Bobko, and Don Peterson, with an unknown hand adding an inscription to the upper mount: "Kandy Hosea, How did Orville and Wilbur ever fly without somebody to schedule them?" In very good to fine condition, with light edge damage to the mount, and a smudge to Musgrave's signature.
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