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Large collection of over 250 pins, buttons, and badges honoring the space program from Project Mercury through the Space Shuttle missions. Includes: buttons honoring Project Mercury astronauts Alan Shepard, John Glenn, Wally Schirra, and Gordon Cooper; buttons honoring the crews of Gemini 3 (Grissom and Young), Gemini 4 (McDivitt and White), and Gemini 7 (Borman and Lovell); two buttons honoring Apollo 8 as the "Greatest Voyage Since Columbus"; seven Apollo 11 "First Men on the Moon" buttons with ribbons; a variety of pins portraying the Apollo 11 crew of Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins; an Apollo 11 "Moon Shot Observer" badge; a rectangular badge with Armstrong's famous quote, "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind"; two pins honoring the USS Hornet recovery ship; pins depicting the insignias for Apollo 12, Apollo 13, Apollo 15, Apollo 16, and Apollo 17; one showing Snoopy on the moon; several showing insignias for Space Shuttle missions; an STS-2 "Official Observer" badge; larger buttons showing various Space Shuttle crews, including STS-1, STS-2, STS-8, STS-9, STS-11, and STS-51-L; over a dozen "Official Guest" badges for a variety of Space Shuttle missions; a Space Shuttle Challenger mourning button; a couple honoring the International Space Station; a few Soviet space pins; and many others. In overall very good to fine condition.