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Takao Doi's Rice Flight Kit for Space Shuttle Endeavour

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Identifier: MS 0552
Abstract Takao Doi, who received his doctorate from Rice, carried this cloth image of the Orion Nebula on the Unites States Space Shuttle Endeavour mission STS-123. The Endeavour launched at 2:28 a.m. March 11, 2008 from launch pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. Doi was a mission specialist on that mission. The image of the Orion Nebula is on a cloth that is 21.5 inches wide by 17 inches high. The cloth is of an unknown material and appears to be printed in color by a computer-generated...
Dates: 2008-2009

Jack McCaine NASA papers

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Identifier: MS 0045
Abstract:

Photographs, correspondence, maps, charts, and memorabilia collected by McCaine while employed at Project Manager for the Army Corps of Engineers during the construction of the Manned Space Center (Johnson Space Center), 1962-1964 and while working with NASA, 1964-1979.

Dates: 1963 - 1994; Majority of material found within 1964 - 1979

Phyllis Kaufman family papers

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Identifier: MS 0840
Abstract This collection contains materials from a large scrapbook created, primarily, by Phyllis Kaufman's father, Norman Belasco, which documents some of his twenty year career with NASA from 1963 to 1983, including correspondence, certificates, awards, diplomas, news clips, patents, and photographs. The collection also includes ten photographs from Phyllis's time as an instructor at I. Weiner Secondary School in Houston, including a panoramic photograph of a group of students on a trip to...
Dates: 1954 - 2005

Space Services, Inc. records

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Identifier: MS 0584
Abstract

This collection encompasses business records relating to Space Services’ administration and organization, the Contestoga and Starfire programs, launch sites, investors, customers, markets, relations with NASA, presentations and other materials from meetings, conferences, and seminars, and various assorted business files and records. It primarily consists of paper records, but also includes photographs, audio cassettes, VHS, Beta, and newspaper clippings.

Dates: ca. 1970s-1990s

Space Shuttle Atlantis memorabilia

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Identifier: MS 0080
Abstract This collection consists of Space Shuttle Atlantis flight S7S-117 memorabilia donated to Rice by Astronaut John D. "Danny" Olivas. Greg Marshall, director of University Relations, passed on the materials to the Woodson Research Center on September 19, 2007. Items include a blue Rice Owls t-shirt worn by Astronaut John D. "Danny" Olivas on Shuttle flight S7S-117; a certificate of authenticity for the shirt; and a presentation, display board with a mission patch, a small American flag, and a...
Dates: 2007