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Space Shuttle Commemorative Patch Entry
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The design concept is based on a subject of space shuttle, her organizer, and her birth & retire year of the program/missions. Those indications are symbolic condensed on a shuttle perimeter:
  1. Her parents, NASA and NASA people, provide the wings of the program/missions,
  2. Her head/cockpit is just a suitable area for the birth year "1981"- the journey's beginning,
  3. Certainly, her tail portion/propulsion system is the right place for the historical legacy - year "2010"...
  4. The Red-Blue-White, the nation's color, is thematic inked on the entire patch.
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