For those not familiar with the mission I have details below. Provence is most important with collectables, and this one has seen only myself. I was exhibiting at the International Space Symposium in Colorado Springs in the mid 2000s. The NASA booth was full of really awesome explorers, engineers, pilots . .  I had a nice chat with Eileen Collins, that mission's commander, she is the first female to command a shuttle (STS-93) and was assigned commander for 114. She happily signed the STS-114 patch. It then went into a box and only now, facing another move, have I decided to let go of my stuff and pass it on to those who collect and can really appreciate it. 


JSA Certificate of Authenticity for the autograph is included, I paid $$$ to have this done. 


Note that I am throwing in a mission patch from the horribly il-fated STS-107



STS-114 marked the return to flight of the Space Shuttle after the Columbia disaster and was the second Shuttle flight with a female commander (Eileen Collins, who also commanded the STS-93 mission). The STS-114 mission was initially to be flown aboard the orbiter Atlantis, but NASA replaced it with Discovery after improperly installed gear was found in Atlantis' Rudder Speed Brake system. During OMM for Discovery, an actuator on the RSB system was found to be installed incorrectly. This created a fleet wide suspect condition. The Rudder Speed Brake system was removed and refurbished on all three remaining orbiter vehicles, and since Discovery's RSB was corrected first, it became the new Return to Flight vehicle, superseding Atlantis. Seventeen years prior, Discovery had flown NASA's previous Return to Flight mission, STS-26.


The STS-114 mission delivered supplies to the International Space Station. However, the major focus of the mission was testing and evaluating new Space Shuttle flight safety techniques, which included new inspection and repair techniques.