NASA STS-74 1995 Commemorative Cobalt Plate and 50 similar items

This listing has a NASA STS-74 Commemorative Cobalt plate with an accompanying pin-back . This plate is rare because it was only given out at NASA’s Ames Research Center to those who worked on the project. Yes, there are many items, as well as plates, that were sold in the gift shop at the time of the event in 1995, but not this plate for the above given reason. We received this plate as well as a great deal of other memorabilia from a person who worked on the mission. STS-74 was the fourth mission of the US/Russian Shuttle–Mir program, and the second docking of the Space Shuttle with Mir. Space Shuttle Atlantis lifted off from Kennedy Space Center launch pad 39A on 12 November 1995. The mission ended 8 days later with the landing of Atlantis back at Kennedy. It was the second in a series of seven straight missions to the station flown by Atlantis and its crew.