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Space Shuttle Geocoin

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Owner:
KATnDOGZ Send Message to Owner Message this owner
Released:
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Origin:
Florida, United States
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Please note that this is a geocoin proxy.  It is a space shuttle pin attached to a tracking tag.  I've read that over 95% of geocoins that are released to travel from cache to cache go missing.  I love finding trackables in the wild, but I don't want this coin to go missing.  I'm going to hold onto it and will bring to events for folks to discover.    I'm sending out a "Space Shuttle" proxy in its place so all can see this cool Space Shuttle and earn the icon.

About This Item

Space Shuttle Geocoin Gold

Gold Space Shuttle Coin On Jan. 28, 1986, 73 seconds after launch, the Space Shuttle Challenger was lost to us on mission STS-51-L. During her lifetime, Challenger made 10 successful flights, surviving over 62 days in space, and almost 1000 orbits around our Earth. Seventeen years later, during re-entry of mission STS-107, on Jan 16, 2003 the Space Shuttle Columbia was lost to us. During her lifetime, Columbia made 28 successful flights, surviving over 300 days in space, and over 4800 orbits around our Earth. Both shuttles had a crew of 7 astronauts. While 38 missions might not seem like a lot for a pair of space craft, it is important to consider scale. Each orbit added over 25,000 miles to a shuttle's odometer! This coin commemorates both those flights, and the fourteen brave souls who were lost during those final missions. The artwork on the back of the coin is an artistic composite of the mission insignias from both flights STS-51-L and STS-107.

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Discovered It 1/13/2014 Hecker_Winey's discovered it   Visit Log

Discovered it. Just found the list so sorry for the late logging. Thank you for sharing.

Discovered It 1/7/2012 Blue Man discovered it   Visit Log

Thanks for sharing your mahvelous collection!

Discovered It 5/29/2011 marygos discovered it   Visit Log

Discovered 2/19/11 in GC2NAB4 Geocaching 101 Newbie Intro Event. Thanks for sharing.

Discovered It 3/8/2011 grubbsterscott discovered it   Visit Log

Discovered it. Thank you for sharing. Very cool and I like it alot.

Discovered It 3/1/2011 a2arnold discovered it   Visit Log

Discovered @ GC2NNA6:"Geocaching 101...It's All About The Numbers!". Thank you for sharing.

Discovered It 8/19/2010 thelanes discovered it   Visit Log

I, unfortunately, witnessed the loss of both vehicles. I was at KSC during the launch of the Challenger and was watching the landing of the Columbia.
I kept thinking during the countdown for the Challenger how cold it was. For three days, the temp was below freezing overnight and was still below 40 degrees at the scheduled liftoff time. I understand it was the cold the eventually led to the damage to the O-ring.

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