So Brand and Lind never flew the rescue mission. 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 ...

"They worked with an artist, either at one of the contractors or at NASA to perfect and make it into a usable patch." Through Apollo and the Space Shuttle programs, the practice of patches continued.

Iowa native Peggy Whitson will be inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in Florida this weekend, recognizing her near ...

Space Shuttle Reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft ... Everyone Regrets Selling Too Soon Guard troops will wear a special patch at Trump's inauguration to make it clear they aren't police A ...

On Jan. 28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger broke apart shortly ... and a cake frosted with the mission patch. Then, in a conference room down the hall, the crew received a final meteorology ...

Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this story misstated the date of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. It occurred Feb. 1, 2003. For millions of Americans, it was an event that ...

SHREVEPORT, La - The Space Shuttle Columbia broke apart over East ... Whey I looked down even closer, I realized it was a patch. A flight mission patch, that had all the crew members names.