BGuthrie Photos: FL -- Titusville -- U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame

FL -- Titusville -- U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame:

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1. NASAHF_060120_059.JPG: After 35 years of searching for the rightful owner of four original Gemini 4 cachet cover envelopes, the United States Mail Recovery Center has given up its pursuit and delivered the 'lost mail' to Astronaut Hall of Fame. The lost Gemini cachet covers are addressed to Tom Dixon of Brooklyn, New York and are signed by Gemini 4 Commander Jim McDivitt. Apparently, Dixon had the cachet covers sent to him by tracking stations in Argentina, India, Alaska, and Cape Canaveral, Florida to be postmarked June 3, 1965, the date of Gemini 4's launch, but the cachet covers never made it to their intended destination. Two of the cachet covers are marked as one of only seven that exist.
2. NASAHF_060120_083.JPG: No American reached space between 1975 and the first Space Shuttle mission in 1981. As launch day for STS-1 approached, Americans discovered the excitement of spaceflight all over again. When Columbia lifted off, America's pride rode with her. News photographer Ralph Morse planted an automatic camera 100 yards from Columbia the night before launch. The camera snapped pictures of the Shuttle's explosive lift-off until shockwaves smashed it.
3. NASAHF_060120_087.JPG: Apollo IV Command Module "Kitty Hawk"
4. NASAHF_060120_094.JPG: The Peanuts Connection: Apollo 10's crew named their Lunar Module "Snoopy" because it would snoop around close to the Moon's surface and named their round Command Module for Snoopy's round-headed friend Charlie Brown. The "Peanuts" connection survives today -- Shuttle astronauts still honor quality workmanship and performance with a Silver Snoopy award.
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Wikipedia Description: United States Astronaut Hall of Fame
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The United States Astronaut Hall of Fame, located just south of Titusville, Florida, honors American astronauts and features the world's largest collection of their personal memorabilia, focusing on those astronauts who have been inducted into the Hall; as well as Sigma 7, the fifth manned Mercury spacecraft. It is operated as part of the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, 6 miles (9.7 km) to the east on Merritt Island.

History:

In the 1980s, the six then-surviving Mercury Seven astronauts conceived of establishing a place where US space travelers could be remembered and honored, along the lines of halls of fame for other fields. The Mercury Seven Foundation and Astronaut Scholarship Foundation were formed and have a role in the current operations of the Hall of Fame. The foundation's first executive director was former Associated Press space reporter Howard Benedict.

The Astronaut Hall of Fame was opened on October 29, 1990, by the U.S. Space Camp Foundation, which was the first owner of the facility. It was located next to the Florida branch of Space Camp.

The Hall of Fame closed for several months in 2002 when U.S. Space Camp Foundation's creditors foreclosed on the property due to low attendance and mounting debt. In September of that year, an auction was held and the property was purchased by Delaware North Park Services on behalf of NASA and the property was added to the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. The Hall of Fame re-opened December 14, 2002.

Inductees:

Inductees into the Hall of Fame are selected by a blue ribbon committee of former NASA officials and flight controllers, historians, journalists, and other space authorities based on their accomplishments in space or their contributions to the advancement of space exploration. Except for 2002, inductions have been held every year since 2001.

As its inaugural class in 1990, the Hall of Fame inducte ...More...
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