This Reproduction Space Shuttle Mission (STS1), is from the First Manned Shuttle Launch on April 12, 1981, exactly 20 years after the first manned space fight (Vostok 1, from the Soviet Space Program). The mission was to verify the "spaceworthiness" and handling of the first space shuttle Columbia. The 4.75 inch patch, comes sealed in the original 1990's Spaceport USA packaging.