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Badge, NASA JSC Temporary, Sally K. Ride

5 pp

This NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) temporary ID badge belonged to Dr. Sally K. Ride. It was issued to her in October 1977 when she arrived there for a week of medical tests and interviews for the astronaut selection program. Ride, then a Ph.D. candidate in physics at Stanford University, had applied to the program in January along with nearly 8,000 other people. The invitation to JSC meant that

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Badge, Navy Aero School, Alexander de Seversky

4 pp

3-D: 1.3 x 4.2cm (1/2 x 1 5/8 in.)

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Badge, Student Pilot, Lafayette Flying Corps

1 pp

3-D: 4.5 × 0.4 × 4cm (1 3/4 × 3/16 × 1 9/16 in.)

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Baldwin Red Devil

6 pp

By the turn of the twentieth century, Baldwin's interest in aviation expanded from free balloons to dirigibles. Between 1900 and 1908, he built a number of non-rigid airships. Among the most famous was the California Arrow, powered by a small Curtiss engine and piloted by Roy Knabenshue at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. In 1905, the Baldwin Airship Company was incorporated, and Captain Baldwin s

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