Among the items issued to astronauts are Velcro-backed name tags that can be attached to their flight suits and jackets. This name tag is a spare for Shuttle astronaut Richard H. Truly, who served as a pilot for the approach and landing test flights (Enterprise, 1977) and then piloted the second space shuttle mission (STS-2, Columbia, 1982) and commanded STS-8 (Challenger, 1983). Truly served as NASA Administrator in 1989-1992. NASA transferred a number of spare astronaut name tags to the Museum over the years.
This object is not on display at the National Air and Space Museum. It is either on loan or in storage.