"He came to NASA and proposed to them and said 'let us at least personalize something about our mission. Let's design a patch,'" said Robert Pearlman, a space historian and editor of collectSPACE.com.

The first NASA flight to produce a mission-specific patch worn by crew members was Gemini 5. It flew in August 1965, carrying astronauts Gordon Cooper and Pete Conrad on an eight-day mission ...

This company has designed NASA's for 50 years. Since the first days of the space program, astronauts wear a special patch specific to each mission.

NASA wants the Voyagers to age gracefully, so it’s time for a software patch Around a half-dozen full-timers and a few part-timers are keeping Voyager alive.

Engineers for NASA's Voyager mission are taking steps to help make sure both spacecraft, launched in 1977, continue to explore interstellar space for years to come.

Machines at A-B Emblem stitch a NASA patch for the International Space Station's Expedition 67 Mission. (Brendan Byrne/WMFE) A-B Emblem is a manufacturing company in Weaverville, ...

A-B Emblem is a manufacturing company in Weaverville, N.C. that's been family run for five generations. It has produced mission patches for NASA since Apollo 11 — the first lunar landing mission ...

"He came to NASA and proposed to them and said 'let us at least personalize something about our mission. Let's design a patch,'" said Robert Pearlman, a space historian and editor of collectSPACE.com.