The worm endures, even though NASA dumped it more than 30 years ago, returning to “the meatball” — its original logo, with a blue circle, stars, an elliptical orbit trail and a swoosh ...

One of the world's best known and certainly most-traveled logos is 65 years old. The NASA insignia has adorned t-shirts and spacesuits, been reproduced 10 stories tall and reached the moon and Mars.

Plus, a sold-out tumbler honoring the Crew 6 mission jointly run by NASA and SpaceX this year has the worm, featuring the logo in bright white against a gray background.

The logo reads "NASA" in ... reversed the direction of the spacecraft in its orbit and had less prominent star fields than would later dot the insignia's background. For 15 years, NASA ...