Since the first days of the space program, astronauts wear a special patch specific to each mission. A small North Carolina company has designed them all since the Apollo lunar launches.

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

Astronaut Nicole Stott, who has made it her mission to promote the healing power of art and the need to protect our planet, has inspired a new "Signature Edition" embroidered patch.

That mission, called Baby Come Back, will send seven small satellites to orbit from Rocket Lab's New Zealand site, on the North Island's Mahia peninsula. And that's not all.

Apollo 7 astronaut Walt Cunningham helped develop an alternate mission patch that shows a capsule rising from the flames that claimed the lives of the Apollo 1 crew in 1967.

Astronaut Nicole Stott, who has made it her mission to promote the healing power of art and the need to protect our planet, has inspired a new "Signature Edition" embroidered patch.