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Topic: Any embroidered patches on Apollo 11?
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proxima1
New Member Posts: 8
From: San Jose, CA
Registered: May 2015
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posted 05-25-2015 04:09 PM
   
Anyone know of Apollo 11 carried any embroidered patches? I have one that came from Deke Slayton's office, but no supporting documentation to back up where it came from originally.
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mmcmurrey
Member Posts: 127
From: Austin, TX, USA
Registered: Jun 2012
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posted 05-28-2015 11:08 AM
You can get information on crew patches at Chris Spain's Crew Patch reference guide. |
proxima1
New Member Posts: 8
From: San Jose, CA
Registered: May 2015
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posted 05-29-2015 01:52 PM
Groovy! I had completely forgotten about his site. And according to the info there, Apollo 11 did carry some embroidered patches. And my patch seems to be one from Texas Art Embroidery, the only ones available to be flown and supplied only to the crew and NASA personal. So that answer's one question. Now if I can find a photo of Deke Slayton in his office with my patch on the wall. |
spaced out
Member Posts: 3152
From: Paris, France
Registered: Aug 2003
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posted 05-30-2015 06:07 AM
In fact I probably need to amend my site to remove that statement. Although I seem to remember seeing examples claimed as flown I haven't been able to dig up any references.I would say in the case of your example it can't ever be positively identified as flown since Deke didn't note it as such. |
Tallpaul
Member Posts: 200
From: Rocky Point, NY, USA
Registered: Feb 2012
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posted 05-30-2015 07:23 AM
I agree with Chris. After Deke passed away his wife disposed of his collection. She would sell ASTP patches that she knew had flown with a small COA. I imagine she would have done the same thing an Apollo 11 patch. It is also germane to point out that according to their website, the Apollo 11 patches that were available from Michael Collins at Novaspace have all been sold. |
spaced out
Member Posts: 3152
From: Paris, France
Registered: Aug 2003
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posted 03-19-2021 09:47 AM
Using this old thread to return to the subject of embroidered patches flown on the Apollo 11 mission...The upcoming Heritage auction features a presentation to Chris Kraft which incorporates a US flag and a Universal Commemorative Apollo 11 patch, both of which are explicitly identified as having been carried on the mission in the Lunar Module Eagle. Although I may have missed some, this is the first concrete example of an Apollo 11 flown embroidered mission patch that I'm aware of. Interesting that it's a Universal Commemorative rather than a Texas Art Embroidery version. Quite a few UC patches have been sold from the Armstrong family collection over the last few years although there was no indication that he had necessarily acquired the patches at the time of the mission.  |
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