Space Shuttle Columbia - Flown HRSI Tile Fragment adventure Specialty Press

Specialty Press

-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

the joint project between British and French engineers fulfilled a decades-old dream of faster-than-sound passenger travel

At the end of the Eocene

Caution: Specimens selected for jewelry purposes have edges and points worn somewhat smooth by centuries of time

Space Shuttle Columbia - Flown HRSI Tile Fragment adventure Specialty PressThis specimen is a fragment of the black, reaction cured glass coating of the HRSI Space Shuttle Tile which appears in the Fourth Edition of the Mini Museum. NASA disposition paperwork accompanying the tile indicates it was removed after the Space Shuttle Columbias 7th mission, STS 61 C, which flew on January 12, 1986. As pictured, the item is roughly the size of a standard Mini Museum specimen (4 5mm). The glass coating is very thin, so for