Since its announcement on July 15, 1959, the insignia representing NASA, or the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, has adorned both t-shirts and spacesuits, been reproduced as large as ...

And while use of the worm is limited, NASA uses it as a supporting element to the agency’s insignia these days. Some examples include when NASA and SpaceX had the worm appear on the Falcon 9 ...

A famous NASA insignia that once adorned spacecraft, suits, and official documents will align its comeback with the first flight of astronauts from U.S. soil on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

Michael D. Shaw is a biochemist and freelance writer. A graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles, and a protégé of the late Willard Libby, winner of the 1960 Nobel Prize in ...