Space Shuttle Discovery's Commemorative Pins, Patches, Banners, and Flags

This STS-41D patch was belonged by Dr. Sally K. Ride. STS 41-D was the first flight of Space Shuttle Discovery.

While Ride was not a crewmember of STS-41D, at the time she was married to crewmember Dr. Steven Hawley.

This flag flew at the launch pad before Space Shuttle Discovery's final mission, STS-133, in 2011.

This workplace banner was displayed in Orbiter Processing Facility-3 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, the servicing bay for Discovery during the last 10 years of the Space Shuttle program.

This button is a souvenir of the second human mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope, conducted aboard Space Shuttle Discovery in 1997.

This "We Made History" commemorative patch was designed to celebrate the thousands of people who worked on the Space Shuttle Program over the course of its 30 years.

This STS-133 mission banner is autographed by the workers who prepared Space Shuttle Discovery for its final flight.

This NASA Get Away Special decal belonged to Dr. Sally K. Ride. The Get Away Special, officially known as the Small, Self-Contained Payloads program, offered interested individuals or groups outside of NASA the opportunity to fly experiments aboard the space shuttle. The program was canceled after the loss of Space Shuttle Columbia during STS-107 in 2003.

This flag was developed by NASA’s Space Flight Awareness program for the flight of STS-116 aboard Space Shuttle Discovery to the International Space Station in December 2006.

It belonged to Dennis Jenkins, a consulting aerospace engineer for the Space Shuttle Program.

Buttons representing specific missions were examples of one type of space memorabilia often distributed to NASA employees and contractors.

This STS-41D Charlie Walker button was owned by John Bickers, a public affairs representative for the McDonnell Company. In 1984, Walker, a McDonnell engineer, flew aboard Space Shuttle Discovery as the first commercial payload specialist.

This SPACEHAB lapel pin is a souvenir for the flight of Magellan T. Bear. Magellan became the first official teddy bear in space, flying as the designated "education specialist" for SPACEHAB aboard Space Shuttle Discovery on the STS-63 mission in February 1995. The bear's journey was part of an ambitious educational project to stimulate interest in geography, science, and social studies.

This patch commemorates a robotic astronaut assistant, or Robonaut, developed to help human astronauts with routine chores like tightening bolts and collecting experiment specimens. Its hands and fingers are like humans’. After the first Robonaut was tested, the second—Robonaut 2 or R2—was sent to work on the International Space Station.

This STS 41-D pendant belonged to Dr. Sally K. Ride. STS 41-D was the first flight of the Space Shuttle Discovery.

While Ride was not a crewmember of STS-41D, at the time she was married to crewmember Dr. Steven Hawley.

Members of the launch pad closeout crew always wore the patch of the current mission. This is the patch for Discovery's final mission in 2011.