One of the first tasks for a new astronaut crew is designing a mission patch. Crew members discuss what shape, colors and emblems it should have to show why their mission is special. Astronauts ...

The Group 22 (2017) "The Turtles" patch became the first to be sold directly to the public when it was listed by A-B Emblem, NASA's official patch supplier, in September. "The Flies" patch has ...

NASA's first mission patch would not follow ... But we got a pretty awesome (if not quite official) patch out of the deal. With the space shuttle, astronauts and patch artists had to get more ...

The official NASA insignia came as part of a consolationprize ... just a month later, the patch hit store shelves at NASA visitor centers andthrough space collectible retailers.

Perhaps the best perk of working on a NASA mission is getting the official stitched mission patch. Nearly every project at the space agency produces its own unique emblem that is adorned by ...

It has produced mission patches for NASA since Apollo 11 — the first lunar landing mission that took Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the surface. Owner Bernie Conrad said the first ones were ...

They are avatars depicted on the official mission patches made for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). Just as NASA creates specially designed patches for each mission into space ...

McCall, the renowned illustrator, conceptual artist, space-scene painter, official NASA artist ... can be found on U.S. postage stamps NASA mission patches. He created concept art for several ...