Bidspirit auction | Astronaut Norm Thagard signed Boeing

Astronaut Norm Thagard signed Boeing 747 Space Shuttle Aircraft FDC PM Edwards, CA Jul 19 AM 1979 93523. Missions STS-7 STS-51-B STS-30 STS-42 Soyuz TM-21/STS-71 (Mir EO?18) Thagard was selected as an astronaut candidate by NASA in January 1978. In August 1979, he completed a one-year training and evaluation period, making him eligible for assignment as a mission specialist on future Space Shuttle flights. A veteran of five space flights, he logged over 140 days in space. He was a mission specialist on STS-7 in 1983, STS-51-B in 1985, STS-30 in 1989, was the payload commander on STS-42 in 1992, and was the cosmonaut/researcher on the Russian Mir EO-18 mission in 1995, which saw him launch aboard Soyuz TM-21 (the first American to launch in a Soyuz) and land on STS-71.