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(3 x 4") NASA Photo identification badge from the earliest days of the US space program. The badge reads: "Hard Tack, Secret Sigma 4,12. Number 30825". In 1956, the Army Ballistic Missile Agency and the Department of Defense created "Operation Hard Tack" to study the effects of nuclear detonations at very high altitudes using Redstone rockets to launch the warheads from Johnston Island. This prograom was top secret and badges such as this are exceedingly rare. The employee pictured above went on to become one of NASA's earliest employees. Good condition with modest faults.
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