NASA flight jacket presented by Janet Kavandi to Obama on display at Obama Center

 Among the items on display in the just opened Barack Obama Presidental Center is a NASA astronaut flight jacket, which was presented to President Obama by space shuttle astronaut Janet Kavandi in the Oval Office in 2011.

The jacket features mission patches representing astronauts that Obama worked with and key spaceflights that occurred during his first term.

The jacket has an emblem for the space shuttle crew who deployed the Hubble Space Telescope, including pilot Charlie Bolden who Obama named as his NASA Administrator, and an insignia for the astronauts who installed the Quest airlock for the International Space Station, among them Kavandi, who at that time wasthe agency's director of flight operations.

Kavandi, 66, a graduate of Carthage High School and Missouri Southern State University, is a scientist and veteran of three space shuttle missions.

(Photos courtesy of Barack Obama Presidential Center)