Space Shuttle Discovery - Flown Payload Bay Liner iceage This gem-quality material is agatized

This gem-quality material is agatized sauropod bone from the Morrison Formation of Utah

" Science (2015): aac4315

All Ceratopsids are quadrupeds with bony frills

~ Oral myth of Toba cosmology as recorded by Alfred Métraux

Space Shuttle Discovery - Flown Payload Bay Liner iceage This gem-quality material is agatizedAbove: Front of the Specimen Card With a career that spanned nearly three decades from 1984 to 2011, the Space Shuttle Discovery (OV 103) accrued more space flights than any other craft in the program. Discovery orbited the Earth 5,830 times, traveling approximately 150 million miles. This specimen is a fragment from a mission flown payload liner of the Discovery. Made of fire resistant beta cloth, this material covered insulation and kept the payload