Image: STS-51-L-patch-small

Description: STS-51-L INSIGNIA The STS-51-L crewmembers designed this insignia to represent their participation in NASA's mission aboard the Challenger, depicted launching from Florida and soaring into space to carry out a variety of goals. Among the prescribed duties of the five astronauts and two payload specialists will be observation and photography of Halley's Comet, backdropped against the U.S. flag in the insignia. Surnames of the crewmembers encircle the scene, with the payload specialists being recognized below. Surname of the first teacher in space, Sharon Christa McAuliffe, is followed by a symbolic apple. The NASA insignia design for space shuttle flights is reserved for use by the astronauts and for other official use as the NASA Administrator may authorize. Public availability has been approved only in the form of illustrations by the various news media. When and if there is any change in this policy, which we do not anticipate, it will be publicly announced.
Title: STS-51-L-patch-small
Credit: Cropped, masked, scaled to 25% insignia image from http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/51-l/51-l-patch.jpg. Description from STS-51-L press kit NIX: http://nix.larc.nasa.gov/info;jsessionid=41b22kvfgrimq?id=S85-46260&orgid=8
Author: NASA
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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