NOTE: Only W3 currently available.

Price: US$ 170 Each

• Also see Space Shuttle flight deck window shade retainers without labels.

• Window shade retainer for the forward flight deck windows of the Space Shuttle as used in the early flights.
• Obvious signs of use. Same as the flight items but presumed to be from a trainer and not flown.
• Consists of a hinged assembly with a web fabric pull tab, edging, and Velcro.
• Retaining feature used Velcro hook and pile strips with adhesive backing. But adhesive has failed over time, with the Velcro strips now mated.
• This group of retainers includes labels for the specific window. (The forward cockpit windows were numbered from left to right, W1 through W6.)

• These items came from the Charles Bell estate. Bell was a NASA employee at the Kennedy Space Center and a lifelong collector of space artifacts.