Bidspirit auction | Astronaut Carl Walz signed NSTL

Astronaut Carl Walz signed NSTL Space Shuttle Orbiter External Tank FDC Bay Saint Louis, MS 39520 PM DEC 19 1978. Missions STS-51 STS-65 STS-79 Expedition 4 (STS-108 / STS-111). Selected by NASA in January 1990, Walz is a veteran of four space flights, and has logged 231 days in space. He was a mission specialist on STS-51 (1993), was the Orbiter flight engineer (MS-2) on STS-65 (1994), was a mission specialist on STS-79 (1996), and served as flight engineer on ISS Expedition 4 (2001-2002). In 2008, Walz left NASA for private industry. Walz was the Vice President for Human Spaceflight Operations at Orbital Sciences Corporation in Dulles, Virginia, responsible for cargo and mission operations for Orbital's Commercial Resupply Services program from 2008 to 2015. He then joined Oceaneering as Director Business Development.