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Box 11

 Container

Contains 1 Collection or Record:

Space shuttle tile; "flight weight firebrick" that protects shuttle from heat buildup during reentry, circa 1991

 Item — Box: 11, Item: 8
Identifier: MSA 302, Series 2, Sub-Series 6, Item 8
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: The artifacts consist of sealed packages of labeled space food, marked "Training;" cloth mission patches and pins for STS-28 and STS-48; Brown's astronaut business cards; and a plaque with two halves of hold-down stud frangible nut from STS-28R presented to mission specialist Brown by staff at Kennedy Space Center. Also found in this sub-series is a piece of shuttle tile, flight weight firebrick,” and paperwork for it.
Dates: circa 1991