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the highly modified boeing 747 shuttle carrier aircraft. he was selected as an astronaut in the 1987 group. he served in numerous support roles including: training officer; safety officer; operations development branch chief; nasa director of operations, star city, russia; stafford task force; and the first manager of space shuttle program development charged with upgrading the space shuttle. readdy is a veteran pilot astronaut with three space flights, sts-42 (january 22-30, 1992), sts-51 (september 12-22, 1993) and, most recently, sts-79 (september 16-26, 1996). readdy has logged over 672 hours in space. readdy then served as associate administrator, nasa hq office of space flight that has oversight for the marshall, kennedy, stennis and johnson space centers as well as programmatic oversight for international space station, space shuttle, space communications and space launch vehicles. readdy retired from nasa after 19 years of service on october 15, 2005."},"estimateMax":8,"lotNumber":"501","url":"https://uk.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/chaucerauctions/source/catalog/auction/71216/lot/272299/view","tags":["ukCollectibles_philately","ukCollectibles","ukCollectibles_all"],"directSalePrice":6,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-25T01:03:53.986Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"£6 - £8","currency":"GBP","id":272299,"category":{"en":"COL"},"estimateMin":6},{"startPrice":6,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/chaucerauctions/cloned-images/272300/001/001.jpg"],"available":false,"description":{"en":"astronaut kevin chilton signed 1987 nasa space shuttle t-38 nasa 904 fdc. kevin patrick \"chilli\" chilton (born november 3, 1954) is an american mechanical engineer and retired united states air force four-star general, test pilot, and nasa astronaut. his last assignment was as commander of u.s. strategic command from october 3, 2007, to january 28, 2011. prior to his appointment to general officer ranks, chilton spent 11 years of his military career as a nasa astronaut. he retired from the air force on february 1, 2011, after having achieved the highest rank of any military astronaut. on january 30, 2012, general chilton was named to the board of directors of orbital sciences corporation. in august 1987 chilton was assigned to nasa and became an astronaut in august 1988, qualifying for assignment as a pilot on space shuttle flight crews. chilton held a variety of technical assignments. he served in the mission development branch of the astronaut office in support of the infrared background signature survey (ibss) satellite, and the orbital manoeuvring vehicle (omv) programs. he was the astronaut office t-38 talon safety officer, leader of the astronaut support personnel team at the kennedy space center, and was lead spacecraft communicator (capcom) for numerous shuttle flights. chilton also served as deputy program manager for the early international space station program. a veteran of three space flights, chilton logged more than 704 hours in space. an accomplished guitarist, chilton spent a portion of his spare time hammering out riffs on a fender stratocaster while jamming with the all astronaut band, \"max q\"."},"estimateMax":8,"lotNumber":"502","url":"https://uk.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/chaucerauctions/source/catalog/auction/71216/lot/272300/view","tags":["ukCollectibles_philately","ukCollectibles","ukCollectibles_all"],"directSalePrice":6,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-25T01:03:53.988Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"£6 - £8","currency":"GBP","id":272300,"category":{"en":"COL"},"estimateMin":6},{"startPrice":6,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/chaucerauctions/cloned-images/272301/001/001.jpg"],"available":false,"description":{"en":"astronaut bill mcarthur signed 1992 nasa space shuttle t-38a nasa n910na fdc. in 1987, mcarthur attended the u.s. naval test pilot school and was trained as an experimental test pilot. he was assigned to a post as a flight test engineer at nasa and was selected as an astronaut candidate in 1990. mcarthur's first spaceflight was in 1993 aboard sts-58. subsequent missions included sts-74 in 1995 and sts-92 in 2000. a master army aviator, mcarthur has logged over 9,000 flight hours in 41 different aircraft and spacecraft. mcarthur is the recipient of a number of prestigious awards and honors including the army distinguished service medal, the defense superior service medal, the defense meritorious service medal (oak leaf cluster), the nasa distinguished service medal, the nasa exceptional service medal and the nasa space flight medal. he retired from the u.s. army in 2001. mcarthur was on board the international space station as a member of expedition 12, having been launched on soyuz tma-7. he lived aboard the station from october 3, 2005, until april 8, 2006. mcarthur served as the director of safety and mission assurance for the johnson space center until his retirement in june of 2017. expedition 1in april 2006, mcarthur and expedition 13 flight officer jeffrey williams tested a new method of preparing for spacewalks by \"\"camping out\"\" or spending the night in the quest airlock, the decompression capsule through which astronauts enter and exit space. in the chamber the pressure was reduced from the normal 14.7 pounds per square inch (psi) to 10.2 psi. the more commonly used method of preparing for spacewalks involves breathing pure oxygen for several hours to purge the body of nitrogen and avoid the bends. the \"\"campout\"\" method was intended to shorten that lengthy preparation time. four hours into their sleep an error tone prompted mission controllers to cut short the activity, though it was still deemed a 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sts-83 (apr 4-8, 1997), sts-94 (july 1-17, 1997) and sts-101 (may 19-29, 2000). from february to august 1998, he served as nasa director of operations at the yuri gagarin cosmonaut training center, star city, russia. halsell also served as manager of shuttle launch integration at kennedy space center, florida, from july 2000 to january 2003. halsell was responsible for space shuttle preparation, launch, and return on 13 missions. after the columbia accident, he led the nasa return to flight planning team, responsible for implementing the recommendations of the accident investigation board into the shuttle program, and resulted in the resumption of missions in 2005. he then served as the assistant director for aircraft operations division of the flight operations directorate. halsell retired from nasa in november 2006 to accept a position with atk launch systems, where he served as vice president of space exploration systems, and was the atk site manager at marshall space flight center, huntsville, alabama. on october 10, 2011, halsell joined dynetics, as a technical director in their space division. spaceflights sts-65 flew the second international microgravity laboratory (iml-2). during the 15-day flight, the crew conducted more than 80 experiments focusing on materials and life sciences research in microgravity. the mission was accomplished in 236 orbits of the earth, traveling 6.1 million miles in 353 hours and 55 minutes. sts-74 was nasa's second space shuttle mission to rendezvous and dock with the russian space station mir. during the 8-day flight, the atlantis crew successfully attached a permanent docking module to mir and transferred over 2,000 pounds of food, water and scientific supplies for use by the cosmonauts. the sts-74 mission was accomplished in 129 orbits of the earth, traveling 3.4 million miles in 196 hours, 30 minutes, 44 seconds. sts-83, the microgravity science laboratory (msl-1) spacelab mission, was cut short because of problems with one of the shuttle's three fuel cell power generation units. mission duration was 95 hours and 12 minutes, traveling 1.5 million miles in 63 orbits of the earth. sts-94, a re-flight of the microgravity science laboratory (msl-1) spacelab mission, focused on materials and combustion science research in microgravity. mission duration was 376 hours and 45 minutes, traveling 6.3 million miles in 251 orbits of the earth. sts-101 was the third shuttle mission devoted to international space station (iss) construction. objectives included transporting and installing over 5,000 pounds of equipment and supplies, and conducting a spacewalk. the mission was accomplished in 155 orbits of the earth, traveling 4.1 million miles in 236 hours and 9 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astronaut office representative for rendezvous and proximity operations; and spacecraft operations branch chief. he flew on sts-67 (1995) and has logged 400 hours in space. gregory retired from the air force and left nasa in the summer of 1999. he served as vice president of business development for qwaltec, inc. in tempe, arizona, and was an airline pilot for a u.s. based cargo carrier. gregory served as the sts-67 pilot on the seven-person astronomical research mission aboard the space shuttle endeavour. launching from the kennedy space center on march 2, 1995, and landing at edwards afb on march 18, 1995, the crew established a new mission duration record of 16 days, 15 hours, 8 minutes and 46 seconds, while completing 262 orbits and traveling nearly seven million miles. this second flight of the astro telescope primary payload also included numerous secondary 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technical assistant to the director of flight crew operations; lead of the astronaut support team at the kennedy space center. he flew on sts-34 in 1989 and has logged a total of 119 hours and 41 minutes in space. he was assigned to accompany the veteran astronaut john young on several t-38 flights mcculley was the pilot on mission sts-34. the crew aboard shuttle orbiter atlantis launched from kennedy space center, florida on october 18, 1989, and landed at edwards air force base, california, on october 23, 1989. during the mission crew members successfully deployed the galileo spacecraft on its journey to explore jupiter, operated the shuttle solar backscatter ultraviolet instrument (ssbuv) to map atmospheric ozone, and performed numerous secondary experiments involving radiation measurements, polymer morphology, lightning research, microgravity effects on plants, and a student experiment on ice crystal growth in space. mission duration was 4 days, 23 hours, 41 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f-16 fighting falcon at edwards air force base, california. while performing high-speed ground tests, oestricher nearly lost control of the aircraft when it entered a series of roll oscillations. oestricher elected to take the craft airborne to avoid crashing and remained in flight for six minutes. oestricher also piloted the f-16's official first flight on february 2, 1974.he contributed to the development of multiple versions of the f-16 and established f-16 safety protocols."},"estimateMax":8,"lotNumber":"508","url":"https://uk.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/chaucerauctions/source/catalog/auction/71216/lot/272306/view","tags":["ukCollectibles_philately","ukCollectibles","ukCollectibles_all"],"directSalePrice":6,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-25T01:03:53.994Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"£6 - 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during the european tour of the space shuttle enterprise. after orbital flights began in 1981, fulton continued to fly the sca during ferry missions returning orbiters to the kennedy space center florida. during his career at dryden, fulton was project pilot on nasa's b-29, b-50, and b-52 bombers launch aircraft used to air launch a variety of piloted and unpiloted research aircraft, including the x-1, x-2, x-15s, and m-2, hl-10, and x-24 rocket airplanes. he was also project pilot on the laminar flow control leading edge research program using a specially modified c-140 jetstar. fulton was the project pilot for the faa/nasa controlled impact demonstration program during 1984. it culminated on december 1, 1984, when he remotely flew an unpiloted, heavily instrumented boeing 720 to a prepared impact point on rogers dry lake to test the flammability of anti-misting jet fuel in a crash situation. he was named a fellow of the society of experimental test pilots, and in 1977 received the society's iven c. kincheloe award as test pilot of the year for his work on the alt program. at the time of his nasa retirement in 1986, fulton had over 16,000 flying hours in 235 types of aircraft."},"estimateMax":8,"lotNumber":"509","url":"https://uk.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/chaucerauctions/source/catalog/auction/71216/lot/272307/view","tags":["ukCollectibles_philately","ukCollectibles","ukCollectibles_all"],"directSalePrice":6,"soldPrice":16,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-25T01:03:53.996Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"£6 - £8","currency":"GBP","id":272307,"category":{"en":"COL"},"estimateMin":6},{"startPrice":6,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/chaucerauctions/cloned-images/272308/001/001.jpg"],"available":false,"description":{"en":"astronaut john blaha signed space shuttle fdc. camellia usa 18c. may 1981. john elmer blaha (born august 26, 1942, in san antonio, texas) is a retired united states air force colonel and a former nasa astronaut. he is a 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was launched from the kennedy space center, florida, on its maiden flight and landed at edwards air force base, california. during the seven-day mission, the crew successfully activated the oast-1 solar cell wing experiment, deployed the sbs-d, syncom iv-2, and telstar 3-c satellites, operated the cfes-iii experiment, the student crystal growth experiment, as well as photography experiments using the imax motion picture camera. the mission was completed in 96 orbits of the earth in 144 hours and 57 minutes. following an aborted attempt to launch sts-41-d where two main engines were stopped shortly after they started because the third failed to start, hawley is reported to have broken the tense atmosphere in the shuttle cabin, saying, \"\"gee, i thought we'd be a lot higher at meco! sts-61-c columbia (january 12-18, 1986) was launched from the kennedy space center, florida, and returned to a night landing at edwards air force base, california. during the six-day flight, the crew deployed the satcom k1 satellite and conducted experiments in astrophysics and materials processing. mission duration was 146 hours and 03 minutes. sts-31 discovery (april 24-29, 1990) was launched from the kennedy space center in florida, and also returned to land at edwards air force base, california. during the five-day mission, the crew deployed the hubble space telescope, and conducted a variety of middeck experiments involving the study of protein crystal growth, polymer membrane processing, and the effects of weightlessness and magnetic fields on an ion arc. they also operated a variety of cameras, including both the imax in-cabin and cargo bay cameras, for earth observations from their record-setting altitude of 380 miles. the mission was completed in 76 orbits of the earth in 121 hours. sts-82 discovery (february 11-21, 1997), the second hubble space telescope (hst) maintenance mission, was launched at night and returned to a night landing at kennedy space center, florida. during the flight, hawley's primary role was to operate the shuttle's 50-foot robot arm to retrieve and redeploy the hst following completion of upgrades and repairs. hawley also operated the robot arm during five spacewalks in which two teams installed two new spectrometers and eight replacement instruments. they also replaced insulation patches over three compartments containing key data-processing, electronics and scientific-instrument telemetry packages. hst was then redeployed and boosted to a higher orbit. the flight was completed in 149 orbits covering 3.8 million miles in 9 days, 23 hours, 37 minutes. sts-93 columbia (july 22-27, 1999) was launched at night from the kennedy space center on a five-day mission returning to ksc for the 12th night landing in the shuttle program's history. hawley served as columbia's flight engineer. the primary mission objective was the successful deployment of the chandra x-ray observatory, the third of nasa's great observatories after hubble 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(born march 24, 1951) is a former nasa astronaut. selected by nasa in june 1987, reightler began a year of astronaut candidate training and became an astronaut in august 1988. from september 12 - 18, 1991, he was the pilot on the crew of sts-48. this was the first space shuttle flight in support of \"mission to planet earth.\" during the five-day mission, the crew aboard the space shuttle discovery successfully deployed the upper atmosphere research satellite (uars), designed to provide scientists with their first complete data set on the upper atmosphere's chemistry, winds and energy inputs. the crew also conducted numerous secondary experiments ranging from growing protein crystals, to studying how fluids and structures react in weightlessness. after 81 orbits of the earth, discovery landed at edwards air force base, california. more recently, reightler served as pilot on sts-60, the first joint u.s./russian space shuttle mission. launching from the kennedy space center on february 3, 1994, sts-60 was the first flight of the wake shield facility (wsf-1) and the second flight of the spacehab (spacehab-2). during the eight-day flight, the crew of discovery, including russian cosmonaut sergei krikalev, conducted a wide variety of biological, materials science, earth observation, and life science experiments. following 130 orbits of the earth, sts-60 landed at kennedy space center on february 11, 1994. with the completion of his second mission, reightler has logged over 327 hours in space. his technical assignments to date have included: chief of the astronaut office space station branch; chief of the astronaut office mission support branch; lead spacecraft communicator (capcom); lead astronaut for flight software development and computer systems; flight crew operations directorate representative to the program requirements control board; weather coordinator for space shuttle launches and landings; astronaut office representative in the areas of ascent, entry, and aborts."},"estimateMax":8,"lotNumber":"518","url":"https://uk.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/chaucerauctions/source/catalog/auction/71216/lot/272316/view","tags":["ukCollectibles_philately","ukCollectibles","ukCollectibles_all"],"directSalePrice":6,"soldPrice":10,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-25T01:04:02.484Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"£6 - 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