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[i]Shortly before Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the Moon, Look-in (a UK comic of the time) was approached by a company called Space Spin-off Ltd to run a special offer in the junior TV Times of a replica of the Apollo 11 mission badge. Each Apollo crew designed its own mission badge, which the astronauts wore on the chests of their space suits and coveralls. The Apollo 11 badge was predominantly gold and blue and depicted an eagle landing on the Moon, with a small blue and white Earth in the distance. The replicas which Space Spin-off Ltd were offering were beautifully embroidered in up to nine different colours, with some 11,000 stitches in each badge. They had cost 50p each to manufacture; the company was offering them at 60p. Alan Fennell (Editor of Look-in) snapped up the idea, an article accompanied the badge offer and some 50,000 were sold.[/i]
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