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A mission patch is a cloth reproduction of a spaceflight mission emblem worn by astronauts and other personnel affiliated with that mission. It is usually executed as an embroidered patch. The term space patch is mostly applied to an emblem designed for a crewed space mission. Traditionally, the patch is worn on the space suit that astronauts ...
The STS 51-C mission marked the third trip of the Space Shuttle Discovery into space, which is referenced by the three colored trailing strips behind the orbiter in the United States red, white and blue. It was the first Space Shuttle mission totally dedicated to the U.S. Department of Defense, hence the DoD central eagle on the mission patch.
STS-55, or Deutschland 2 (D-2), was the 55th overall flight of the NASA Space Shuttle and the 14th flight of Shuttle Columbia.This flight was a multinational Spacelab flight involving 88 experiments from eleven different nations.
The rocket carrying the student work is scheduled to launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on November 9 at 7:28 p.m., Central ... SSEP Mission 17 experiment and mission patches blasting ...
In December 2010, the Head of the Russian Federal Space Agency, Anatoly Perminov approved the patch of the Soyuz TMA-21 mission. [8] The patch was designed based on a drawing by young artist Marciel Santos Kayle, a 12-year-old from French Guiana. According to a Roscosmos news release, Marciel's sketch was chosen for the crew patch, since it ...
Alternate mission patch, referencing the mission's original designation, STS-13; and landing under a black cat, given that April 13, 1984, was a Friday the 13th. [8] NASA began a tradition of playing music to astronauts during the Project Gemini, and first used music to wake up a flight crew during Apollo 15. Each track is specially chosen ...
Space art for the Spacelab 2 mission, showing some of the various experiments in the payload bay. Tony England drinks soda in space. A view of the Sierra Nevada mountains and surroundings from Earth orbit, taken on the STS-51-F mission. STS-51-F's primary payload was the laboratory module Spacelab 2.
STS-51-B was the 17th flight of the NASA Space Shuttle program and the seventh flight of Space Shuttle Challenger. The launch of Challenger on April 29, 1985, was delayed by 2 minutes and 18 seconds, due to a launch processing failure.