Look tooclosely at the STS-126 mission patch and you might miss it. The crew emblem,which depicts space shuttle Endeavour on its way back from the InternationalSpace Station (ISS) - a scene that ...

Crew members discuss what shape, colors and emblems it should have to show why their mission is special. Astronauts have been wearing official mission patches since 1965. There are more than 150 ...

Crew members discuss what shape, colors and emblems it should have to show why their mission is special. Astronauts have been wearing official mission patches since 1965. There are more than 150 ...

SpaceX Crew Dragon Demo-2 crewmates Doug Hurley (at left) and Bob Behnken debut their mission patch on their NASA flight suits at SpaceX's headquarters in Hawthorne, Calif., Oct. 10, 2019.

The patch for the almost-a-disaster Apollo 13 mission was worked on by Lumen Martin Winter, an artist who created murals throughout the country, particularly of majestically galloping stallions.

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.

Van den Abeelen has also helped design ISS crew patches, including the emblems for the 2003 Soyuz TMA-3 mission and the insignia for the station's 31st expedition crew in 2012.

The first of NASA's contracted cargo resupply flights to the International Space Station now has its own mission patch, courtesy of the company launching the spacecraft.

Skylab rescue mission. Skylab was NASA's first space station, and it was launched into orbit after the final Apollo lunar landing in 1972. From May 1973 to February 1974, three different crews ...

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… ...

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 ...