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Mercury Mission Patch Design
The center in Philadelphia showing off the Liberty Bell includes
displays of the Bell's appearance in popular culture, including (among very many things including chairs so tacky I'm surprised my grandmother didn't have them) Grissom's Liberty Bell 7 mission patch. The display diorama -- needing to bring the captions in on time -- doesn't explain that the patch was created a couple of years after the flight when the Gemini V ``Covered Wagon'' patch proved to be a big hit, but we all know that here anyway. What I wondered was: do we know who created the 'retcon' patches, and to what extent the first nine astronauts to fly were involved in the design? (On the one hand I imagine they'd find it a bit of extra fun -- my sense is the Apollo astronauts generally viewed it as a treat among the harder work -- but then it would also be yet another thing to do and over flights that were months and years in the past that didn't improve the flights' usefulness outside publicity value.) -- Joseph Nebus ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
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Mercury Mission Patch Design
On Jun 27, 7:19 am, (Joseph Nebus) wrote:
The center in Philadelphia showing off the Liberty Bell includes displays of the Bell's appearance in popular culture, including (among very many things including chairs so tacky I'm surprised my grandmother didn't have them) Grissom's Liberty Bell 7 mission patch. The display diorama -- needing to bring the captions in on time -- doesn't explain that the patch was created a couple of years after the flight when the Gemini V ``Covered Wagon'' patch proved to be a big hit, but we all know that here anyway. What I wondered was: do we know who created the 'retcon' patches, and to what extent the first nine astronauts to fly were involved in the design? (On the one hand I imagine they'd find it a bit of extra fun -- my sense is the Apollo astronauts generally viewed it as a treat among the harder work -- but then it would also be yet another thing to do and over flights that were months and years in the past that didn't improve the flights' usefulness outside publicity value.) -- Joseph Nebus ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I have been collecting spaceflight patches since 1968. I never purchased any of the Mercury or the GT-3 or GT-4 patches, specifically because they were created by emblem companies as souvenirs. Since they are not official I have never considered them to be collectable or displayabe in a museum. Apparently some logo designer came up with the designs over 35 years ago. That is when I started seeing them in AB Emblem company catalogs. You can tell they are "fakes" due to the poor designs. Matthew Ota |
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Mercury Mission Patch Design
Apparently some logo designer came up with the designs over 35 years ago. That is when I started seeing them in AB Emblem company catalogs. You can tell they are "fakes" due to the poor designs. Did NASA employ top flight graphic designers for the real patches? It may just be a case of traditional style that the fakers never seem to adequately copy well. |
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Mercury Mission Patch Design
On Jun 27, 9:19 am, (Joseph Nebus) wrote:
The center in Philadelphia showing off the Liberty Bell includes displays of the Bell's appearance in popular culture, including (among very many things including chairs so tacky I'm surprised my grandmother didn't have them) Grissom's Liberty Bell 7 mission patch. The display diorama -- needing to bring the captions in on time -- doesn't explain that the patch was created a couple of years after the flight when the Gemini V ``Covered Wagon'' patch proved to be a big hit, but we all know that here anyway. What I wondered was: do we know who created the 'retcon' patches, and to what extent the first nine astronauts to fly were involved in the design? (On the one hand I imagine they'd find it a bit of extra fun -- my sense is the Apollo astronauts generally viewed it as a treat among the harder work -- but then it would also be yet another thing to do and over flights that were months and years in the past that didn't improve the flights' usefulness outside publicity value.) -- Joseph Nebus ---------------------------------------------------------------------------*--- There was no Liberty Bell 7 patch, Gus Grissom did design a Molly Brown/GT-3 patch.....post flight. |
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Mercury Mission Patch Design
On Jun 27, 7:39 pm, Matthew Ota wrote:
On Jun 27, 7:19 am, (Joseph Nebus) wrote: The center in Philadelphia showing off the Liberty Bell includes displays of the Bell's appearance in popular culture, including (among very many things including chairs so tacky I'm surprised my grandmother didn't have them) Grissom's Liberty Bell 7 mission patch. The display diorama -- needing to bring the captions in on time -- doesn't explain that the patch was created a couple of years after the flight when the Gemini V ``Covered Wagon'' patch proved to be a big hit, but we all know that here anyway. What I wondered was: do we know who created the 'retcon' patches, and to what extent the first nine astronauts to fly were involved in the design? (On the one hand I imagine they'd find it a bit of extra fun -- my sense is the Apollo astronauts generally viewed it as a treat among the harder work -- but then it would also be yet another thing to do and over flights that were months and years in the past that didn't improve the flights' usefulness outside publicity value.) -- Joseph Nebus ---------------------------------------------------------------------------*--- I have been collecting spaceflight patches since 1968. I never purchased any of the Mercury or the GT-3 or GT-4 patches, specifically because they were created by emblem companies as souvenirs. Since they are not official I have never considered them to be collectable or displayabe in a museum. Apparently some logo designer came up with the designs over 35 years ago. That is when I started seeing them in AB Emblem company catalogs. You can tell they are "fakes" due to the poor designs. Matthew Ota I saw an ad in a magazine c 1974 and got a complete set of all manned missions to that date (all 4 Skylabs, but no ASTP), along with a general NASA (swoosh), Mariner 2 & 4, and a Vostok patch. There may have been one or two others, but all of them were stolen years ago. |
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