A complete package from NASA Flight Director and Administrator Milt Heflin: a nice handwritten signed note on NASA letterhead, with original NASA patch and decal strip. 
 
This set of items was obtained through the mail from Johnson Space Center.  The note from Heflin reads: "Thanks for your interest in this country's space program! Regards, Milt Heflin"
 
Heflin began working at Houston's Manned Spacecraft Center (now Johnson Space Center) on June 6, 1966. His initial role was as a ground test vehicle engineer and test conductor for the development and qualification of water recovery hardware and procedures for the Apollo command module. He was also a director for the command module's reaction control subsystem deactivation and pyrotechnic safing team. He was on the prime recovery ships during the splashdowns and post-landing activities of Apollo 8, Apollo 10, Apollo 16, Apollo 17, each of the three Skylab missions, and the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project.  Heflin then worked as a flight controller for orbiter electrical and environmental systems for the Space Shuttle Approach and Landing Tests, as well as the Shuttle's first nine missions.

Heflin progressed up the chain of command to work as a flight director, beginning with the April 1985 flight of STS-51D. He went on to oversee 20 Space Shuttle flights, with seven as Lead Flight Director.

A secure holographic serial number has been applied to the reverse, linking this item to the included Orbital Artifacts COA (your guarantee of 100% authenticity!).

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