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Forum:	Patches & Pins
Topic:	STS-119 mission patch

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Your Reply: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	[QUOTE]Originally posted by Robert Pearlman: [B]Although the <A HREF="#ebay">patch found on eBay</A> was not made by AB Emblem, NASA's preferred manufacturer for the patches worn by the astronauts, the earlier "Wakata" design can be found on (at least) the early shipped versions of AB Emblem's STS-119 lapel pin: <CENTER><img src="http://www.collectspace.com/review/sts119_pin01.jpg" WIDTH="275" HEIGHT="275"></CENTER> (Winco International has traditionally made NASA's lapel pins, though AB Emblem has also been producing pins for the agency since STS-122.) It is unusual for an insignia design to be so late that NASA's official description of the emblem would be wrong, let alone that authorized manufacturers would have already begun production of pins and/or patches. STS-119 mission specialist Steve Swanson explained the reason for the change in an interview with collectSPACE. <BLOCKQUOTE>[i]We didn't believe, once we saw the patch, that Koichi's name came out enough, like it wasn't visible enough. So, we decided we had to move it into the red[/i] [border] [i]to keep it visible as much as we wanted. We tried to put it by his Japanese logo there on the JEM[/i] [Japanese Experiment Module], [i]that was the idea, to make it part of that, but it didn't seem to work out that way when we got done with it. So, we had to move it.[/i]</BLOCKQUOTE> Swanson's 19 year old daughter, a graphics design major, created the STS-119 patch.[/B][/QUOTE]
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