Presented here are examples of space shuttle post-flight presentations, specifically those with a crew patch and flag. A standard design was created for each flight with a collage of images from the mission accompanied by a flown patch and flown flag. These presentations often have an USA flag but could instead have a flag from a US State, country, organization, etc. For earlier flights (prior to STS-51L), individual photos were printed and arranged. For later flights the images are digitally arranged and printed as a single background. Some presentations are signed and/or inscribed by various crew memebers. The tradition of creating this style of presentations started with STS-1, the first flight.
The goal is to show a representative selection covering the style for each mission and not an archive of each and every individual presentation created. There are cases where multiple of the same presentation are shown for a given mission. These instances are examples showing various types of inscriptions and in many cases can aid in determining the nature of the applied crew signatures (i.e. were they signed by hand, with an autopen, or pre-printed).
Please send in photos of different styles or other presentations you've seen and I will add them to the archive.
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