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)
