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Topic: 2021 NASA Astronaut Class 'Flies' patch
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Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 50661
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 10-28-2022 03:51 PM
   
collectSPACE Astronaut candidates' fly-shaped class patch is a lunar 'slam dunk'NASA's astronaut candidates are giving new definition to "fly me to the moon" with their newly-revealed class patch. The 12 spaceflight trainees — 10 from the U.S. and two from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) — reported for two years of basic training in January. Four months later, they were given their official nickname, "The Flies," continuing a tradition that began with NASA's first class of astronauts in 1959. On Friday (Oct. 28), the Group 23 astronaut candidates ("ascans") shared another custom, introducing an emblem of their own.  |
KSCartist
Member Posts: 3049
From: Titusville, FL
Registered: Feb 2005
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posted 10-28-2022 04:36 PM
Brilliant and fun design. I wish I created it. |
Marwin2
Member Posts: 167
From:
Registered: Oct 2006
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posted 10-30-2022 05:48 AM
Where is stars on US flag? |
davidcwagner
Member Posts: 994
From: Albuquerque, New Mexico
Registered: Jan 2003
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posted 10-30-2022 10:22 AM
Really like the astronaut doing a "Slam Dunk" with the moon. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 50661
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 10-31-2022 11:31 AM
quote:
Originally posted by Marwin2:
Where is stars on US flag?
It is not uncommon for patches to forgo the stars due to the limits of embroidery. At the size the flag will appear on the physical patch, it might be too small to stitch individual stars. Some patches also omit the stars for design purposes.
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Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 50661
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 06-20-2023 04:19 PM
A-Emblem is now selling the Class 23 "The Flies" patch (design no. 450328). |
Kevin T. Randall
Member Posts: 1522
From: Chesham, Bucks UK
Registered: Dec 2008
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posted 06-27-2023 01:07 AM
The details on the two labels seen so far are;- 450328 Made In Taiwan 06 23 06 (on an old style white label without the "crown logo")
- 450328 A-B Emblem 06/2306 (Taiwan) with the A-B Emblem "crown logo" but without "Made In Taiwan" (cS)
These labels are stuck to the backs of these Class XXIII flies patches without a plastic coating over the labels. 
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p51
Member Posts: 1772
From: Olympia, WA
Registered: Sep 2011
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posted 06-27-2023 03:27 PM
Nice looking patch! quote:
Originally posted by KSCartist:
Brilliant and fun design. I wish I created it.
You can still tell there were elements that more than one person insisted upon. It's what I usually call, "ten pounds of ideas in a five-pound bucket," though this one is nowhere as bad as I've seen other space patches in the last ten years or so |
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