The space shuttle Endeavour's hatch will be opened by NASA technicians one last time this week, in part to retrieve thousands of souvenir patches and a photo — the retired orbiter's final flown ...

Space Shuttle Challenger's fallen flags and patches, 30 years later By Robert Z. Space.com Published January 28, 2016 3:31pm EST | Updated April 28, 2016 6:52pm EDT ...

Shuttle Discovery is headed to the Smithsonian instead of space on its last flight, but it still has a mission patch. Shuttle ferry pilots designed the emblem.

Space artist Paul Calle thought he had represented the overall mission for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP). NASA ...

The final patch design for the Space Shuttle Program has been selected by a NASA committee from a pool of entries by NASA employees and contractors. It beat out 84 other prospective patches to be ...

The shuttle is retiring next year and, according to NASA, the remaining five flights may be the most difficult ever flown. That’s why they created this contest for the final space shuttle patch ...

Many show the space shuttle and the International Space Station. After a deadly fire aboard Apollo 1 in 1967, all flammable materials - including embroidered patches - were banned from U.S ...

The space shuttle program is on its way out, but the core of people who built and maintained it will live on. To honor them, NASA gave its employees the chance to design the patch that will ...

Patches that someday could be used to repair damage to the leading edge of a space shuttle's wing will be carried aboard Discovery in the launch planned next month. IE 11 is not supported.

Patch collecting is a wildly popular hobby for space enthusiasts. A-B Emblem's Bernie Conrad says when the shuttle program ended in 2011, interest in patches faded.

There are more than 150 such patches, a treasure trove for collectors. Nearly […] Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 41°F. Thursday, March 7th 2024 Today's Paper.

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 hav… ...