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On 1 January 2004, it was renamed the Space Operations Badge. [6] Official heraldry of the Space Operations Badge: "The central globe represents the Earth as viewed from space, the Earth being the origin and control point for man’s space endeavors. The global lines of latitude and longitude hearken to the original 20th Air Force patch and ...
Pages in category "Recipients of the Medal "For Merit in Space Exploration"" The following 64 pages are in this category, out of 64 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
United States astronaut badges are the various badges of the United States which are awarded to military and civilian personnel of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the various child departments of the Department of Defense, or a private space-faring entity, who have performed (or in some cases, completed training for) a spaceflight.
English: Ribbon bar: Medal For Merit in an Space Exploration. Russian Federation, 2010. Russian Federation, 2010. Русский: Планка медали «За заслуги в освоении космоса».
The Space Operations Badge is an occupational badge for guardians of the United States Space Force [6] [2] and space airmen of the United States Air Force [1] while the United States Army (USA) version of the badge, known as the Space Badge, is a special skills badge for soldiers who qualify as space professionals.
The NASA Space Flight Medal is a decoration of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.According to its statutes, it is awarded "for significant achievement or service during individual participation as a civilian or military astronaut, pilot, mission specialist, payload specialist, or other space flight participant in a space flight mission."
Typically, the Congressional Space Medal of Honor is awarded for scientific discoveries or actions of tremendous benefit to mankind. The decoration may also be awarded for extreme bravery during a space emergency or in preventing a major space disaster, or posthumously to those astronauts who die while performing a U.S. space mission.
The first space patch was flown by Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova on the Vostok 6 [1] mission in 1963; however, that was hidden from public view by the bright orange coverall that was part of the space suit at the time. At the start of the human spaceflight space age, as a rule, astronauts were pilots from a military background.