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  Candy Torres Receiving an Award

  Candy Torres is being recognized for her work. She is being awarded a pin by a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) administrator in a ceremonial manner.
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  Space Shuttle riding on Boeing 747

  A NASA plane is carrying another smaller shuttle to be launched in Houston, Texas.
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  Film negatives

  Film negatives. Candy Torres is holding a suit in some of the photographs. Some of the photographs show mission control and other pictures are of a speaker and a panel.
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  Photograph of Candy Torres in the Civil Air Patrol

  Candy Torres standing in front of a Civil Air Patrol aircraft at Kupper Airport, Manville, NJ, in October of 1968
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  Columbia Patch Sticker, Front and Back

  Sew-on patch of the infamous Columbia mission that exploded upon re-entry in 2003.
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  Candy Torres in a Space Suit

  Photograph of Candy Torres in a space suit.
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  Photograph of Candy Torres in a Star Trek costume

  Candy Torres sitting at her station at NASA mission control, dressed as Spock from Star Trek. Possibly for Halloween.
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  Candy Torres with Hubble Space Telescope Mockup, JSC

  Candy Torres standing in front of a mockup of the iconic Hubble Space Telescope. this mockup could have been used for several things at the JSC, from vacuum or thermal testing to training the famous astronaut mission to fix the multi-billion dollar telescope.
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  American Space Digest Cover

  Front and back cover of American Space Digest, 1963 edition. This is part of Candy Torres' childhood book collection. Candy was in middle school when the book was published.
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  Mission Control Flight 7A Team Group Photo, signed by Candy Torres

  A group photograph of all the NASA personnel and contractors on the Flight 7A Mission control team, signed at the bottom by Candy Torres