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Apollo Era NASA Name Tag, Worn & Flown in Zero-G Training Astronaut Alan Shepard
Apollo Era NASA Name Tag, Worn & Flown in Zero-G Training Astronaut Alan Shepard

Apollo Era NASA Name Tag, Worn & Flown in Zero-G Training Astronaut Alan Shepard

$ 633.07

Availability: 100 in stock
  • All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
  • Condition: Used by the astronaut onboard NASA's KC-135 "Vomit Comet" training simulator. Please read the full description for details.
  • Exploration Missions: Apollo
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
  • Theme: Astronauts & Space Travel
  • Type: NASA Name Tag
  • Year: 1960's

    Description

    This listing is for a black leather name tag, which was worn by Alan Shepard during his training for the Apollo 14 moon landing. He wore this patch onboard
    NASA's KC-135 "Vomit Comet" -
    a modified Boeing 707 that would fly to great heights, then drop down for miles, leaving the passengers in a zero-gravity environment for short periods of time. After the flights, several astronauts gave their name tags as souvenirs to the NASA engineer who helped with the training. I bought a stack of patches from this employee, including the one here. These were authenticated and sold to me via Heritage Auctions in their latest space auction.
    (Please note that this tag incorrectly lists his name as "AJ Shepard", not "AB Shepard". This is not the first tag Heritage has offered with a misspelled name. It would seem that the NASA employee who made these accidentally gave him a stack with the name spelled wrong, and he decided to just use them instead of wasting them.)
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