As the Gemini 12 mission patch ultimately took form, sans the witch conveyance, it came to feature a crescent moon as a nod to the goal of the Apollo flights that would follow. Get the Space.com ...

It’s on display at the Virginia Air and Space Center in Hampton, Virginia. 12. Apollo 12’s mission patch honors a fallen astronaut A fourth star was included on the Apollo 12 mission patch ...

The sailing ship of the Apollo 12 mission patch played on the golden age of exploration on Earth. NASA hasn't shied away from using well-known figures on its patches in recent years.

Before the mission's Saturn V rocket could boost ... the two items that we did loan him, the Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 patches seemed appropriate," said Jennifer Levasseur, a curator in the space ...

Neil Armstrong was appreciative, but it was too late. The Apollo 11 crew had a design for the first moon landing. Armstrong's ...

Since Apollo 11, the mission that took Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the lunar surface, this company has provided patches for NASA. Owner Bernie Conrad says the first ones were manufactured on ...

The art of space mission patches is now more than six decades old ... and it was launched into orbit after the final Apollo lunar landing in 1972. From May 1973 to February 1974, three different ...

It has produced mission patches for NASA since Apollo 11 — the first lunar landing ... "We started off with machines that were like eight heads, 12 heads, now we're up to 44 heads," he said ...