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Topic:	SpaceX Crew Dragon Demo-1 patches

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Your Reply: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	[QUOTE]Originally posted by Robert Pearlman: [B]The U.S. Air Force 45th Space Wing is the first to debut an embroidered patch for SpaceX's Crew Dragon <A HREF="http://www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum35/HTML/000894.html">Demonstration Mission-1</A> (DM-1), an uncrewed test flight to the International Space Station. DM-1 will launch atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. <center><a href="http://www.collectspace.com/review/spacex_dragon_dm1_45swpatch01-lg.jpg" target="AirLock"><img src="http://www.collectspace.com/review/spacex_dragon_dm1_45swpatch01.jpg" width="400" height="400" border="0"></a></center>[/B][/QUOTE]
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<table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width="600"><TR><td bgcolor="#000000"><TABLE BORDER=0 cellpadding=4 border=0 cellspacing=1 WIDTH="100%"><TR bgcolor="#660000"><TD COLSPAN=2><CENTER>T O P I C     R E V I E W</CENTER></TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#494949"><TD valign=top>Robert Pearlman</TD><TD>The U.S. Air Force 45th Space Wing is the first to debut an embroidered patch for SpaceX's Crew Dragon <A HREF="http://www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum35/HTML/000894.html">Demonstration Mission-1</A> (DM-1), an uncrewed test flight to the International Space Station. DM-1 will launch atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.<center><a href="http://www.collectspace.com/review/spacex_dragon_dm1_45swpatch01-lg.jpg" target="AirLock"><img src="http://www.collectspace.com/review/spacex_dragon_dm1_45swpatch01.jpg" width="400" height="400" border="0"></a></center></TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#333333"><TD valign=top>Robert Pearlman</TD><TD>SpaceX's Crew Dragon Demo-1 mission patch:<center><a href="http://www.collectspace.com/review/spacex_dragon_dm1patch01-lg.jpg" target="AirLock"><img src="http://www.collectspace.com/review/spacex_dragon_dm1patch01.jpg" width="400" height="400" border="0"></a></center></TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#494949"><TD valign=top>Robert Pearlman</TD><TD>SpaceX Crew Dragon Demo-1 embroidered patch:<center><a href="http://www.collectspace.com/review/spacex_dragon_dm1patch02-lg.jpg" target="AirLock"><img src="http://www.collectspace.com/review/spacex_dragon_dm1patch02.jpg" width="400" height="400" border="0"></a></center></TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#333333"><TD valign=top>Moonbase Alphan</TD><TD>Interestingly, the NASA version I've found uses photo images and has differences in the streaks as well.<center><a href="http://www.collectspace.com/review/spacex_dragon_dm1patch03-lg.jpg" target="AirLock"><img src="http://www.collectspace.com/review/spacex_dragon_dm1patch03.jpg" width="400" height="400" border="0"></a></center></TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#494949"><TD valign=top>Robert Pearlman</TD><TD>The Crew Dragon Demo-1 patch is <A HREF="http://capemuseumgiftshop.org/epages/061684b0-1940-4f7d-ba08-ec4c5269dfa4.sf/en_US/?ObjectPath=/Shops/061684b0-1940-4f7d-ba08-ec4c5269dfa4/Products/T103530" target="AirLock">now available</A> via the Air Force Space & Missile Museum.</TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#333333"><TD valign=top>Liembo</TD><TD>It looks like there might be multiple suppliers of the Demo-1 patch (similarly to the first Falcon Heavy patch). There are slight differences between the photo of the patch above and the patch as scanned by the Air Force Space & Missile Museum: <center><a href="http://www.collectspace.com/review/liembo/spacex_dragon_dm1patch01-lg.jpg" target="AirLock"><img src="http://www.collectspace.com/review/liembo/spacex_dragon_dm1patch01.jpg" width="400" height="400"></a></center></TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#494949"><TD valign=top>Robert Pearlman</TD><TD>The two are identical. The apparent differences are due to lighting and the one that I photographed being slightly bent backwards. Overlaying the two (and mildly warping to accommodate the physical bend) show the stitching lining up perfectly).</TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#333333"><TD valign=top>GACspaceguy</TD><TD>Looks like the Air Force Space & Missile Museum is out of stock already.</TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#494949"><TD valign=top>Liembo</TD><TD>A-B Emblem now lists the <A HREF="https://space.abemblem.com/collections/commercial-crew-program/products/dm-1" TARGET=_blank>SpaceX DM-1 patch</A>.<center><a href="http://www.collectspace.com/review/spacex_dragon_dm1patch04-lg.jpg" target="AirLock"><img src="http://www.collectspace.com/review/spacex_dragon_dm1patch04.jpg" width="400" height="400" border="0"></a></center></TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#333333"><TD valign=top>Robert Pearlman</TD><TD>This is interesting, because this patch was a SpaceX design. To date AB Emblem has only produced NASA designs for commercial missions.This could be a one off (as NASA did not design a patch for Demo-1), or perhaps a sign of things to come.</TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#494949"><TD valign=top>Liembo</TD><TD>Scan of the back of the new A-B Emblem version:<center><a href="http://www.collectspace.com/review/liembo/spacex_dragon_dm1patch02-lg.jpg" target="AirLock"><img src="http://www.collectspace.com/review/liembo/spacex_dragon_dm1patch02.jpg" width="400" height="400"></a></center></TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#333333"><TD valign=top>Kevin T. Randall</TD><TD>It has been bought to my attention that AB Emblem have changed the SKU patch design number on their latest production run version of their SpaceX Demo-1 patches. <UL TYPE=SQUARE><LI>424227 A-B Emblem 06/2020 (USA) <LI>425326 A-B Emblem Made In USA 0972020 ('7' used instead of '/' error, also has different or error SKU patch design number) <LI>424227 A-B Emblem Made In USA 0972020 ('7' used instead of '/' error. '7' is larger font) <LI>425326 A-B Emblem Made In USA 02/21 20 <LI>425326 A-B Emblem Made In USA 03/21 20 </UL> I've not seen or had reported any of these patches with July or August date codes on them.Updated on 29th March 2023: Two more production run dates have been found for February and March 2021, both with the error SKU patch design number 425326 on them.</TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#494949"><TD valign=top>Robert Pearlman</TD><TD>NASA <A HREF="https://images.nasa.gov/details/KSC-20240314-PH-CSH01_0048" TARGET=_blank>recently added</A> to its image archive a photo taken in 2014 that shows another Demo-1 patch previously not shown here.The patch, which is variation on the <A HREF="http://www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum18/HTML/000885.html">Commercial Crew Program patch</A>, was presented to the U.S. Coast Guard as part of a larger framed display. <center><a href="http://www.collectspace.com/review/spacex_dragon_dm1_ccp_patch01-lg.jpg" target="AirLock"><img src="http://www.collectspace.com/review/spacex_dragon_dm1_ccp_patch01.jpg" width="400" height="400" border="0"></a></center></TD></TR></TABLE></td></tr></table>

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