Space Shuttle Columbia; 701178
Phoenix, AZ: Petley Studios, Inc. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Postcard. Format is approximately 6 inches by 4 inches. Dennis McLeveen was a photographer with the Department of Defense, based out of El Paso, Texas. The front is a color photograph entitled White Sands where the Space Shuttle landed at the top and a color image of the Shuttle against a hilly backdrop. On the reverse at the top left is the following text: Space Shuttle Columbia NASA's shuttle Columbia ended its third space transportation system test mission with a landing at Northrup Strip on White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, on March 30, 1982. Later this 100 ton orbiter was carried piggyback on a Boeing 747 to Kennedy Space Center in Florida. No writing on this postcard--it had not been sent anywhere. More