STS-114 Team Award
Year: 2005
Mint/Issuer: Winco International / NASA SFA Office
Mintage: 995
Flown metal: Two metal ingots carried in Official Flight Kit
Additional Information:
SFA Team Award –This award is used to recognize small groups of employees that have demonstrated exemplary teamwork while accomplishing a particular task or goal in support of the human space program.When space shuttle Discovery launched on the STS-114 "Return to Flight"mission in July 2005, stowed inside its Official Flight Kit (OFK) were"2 Metal Ingots" flown for NASA's Space Flight Awareness Office. These two blocks were listed as item 13e in the OFK manifest. As with earlier missions had carried similar metal blocks that were later smelted with other alloy to mint commemorative medals.
