Bidspirit auction | NASA Astronaut Gary Payton STS-51C

NASA Astronaut Gary Payton STS-51C Enterprise on Display at Open House Edwards AFB 21 Sept 1981 Space Envelope. Payton flew on the STS-51-C mission aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery in January 1985 which launched and returned to land at the Kennedy Space Center, in Florida. STS-51C was the first dedicated Space Shuttle Department of Defense mission. The mission carried an Inertial Upper Stage and deployed a DoD satellite. This was the first shuttle mission that most on-orbit details were classified and not publicized. Payton travelled over 1.2 million miles in 48 Earth orbits, and logged more than 73 hours in space. Good condition Est.