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Topic: NASA 'meatworm' or 'wormball' patches
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FFrench
Member Posts: 3165
From: San Diego
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 11-12-2010 04:32 PM
  
Talking with Mike McCulley at the Cape during the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation event, I noticed he was wearing a "Wormball" patch – the hybrid design between the NASA meatball and the worm. I've never seen this design as a patch before, and never in any official capacity, only in joking reference to Dan Goldin's worm-eradication efforts. McCulley had never noticed himself until that day, as Fred Gregory had pointed it out to him.
McCulley said he was given this jacket when at NASA with this patch on. Was this ever an officially-approved and worn NASA logo, or was this someone just having fun? 
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benguttery
Member Posts: 547
From: Fort Worth, TX, USA
Registered: Feb 2005
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posted 11-12-2010 05:10 PM
The Space Souvenirs store on NASA Road 1 in Houston has these. |
hoorenz
Member Posts: 1034
From: The Netherlands
Registered: Jan 2003
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posted 11-13-2010 02:08 AM
Back then, it was called "wormball." |
Go4Launch
Member Posts: 549
From: Seminole, Fla.
Registered: Jul 2003
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posted 11-13-2010 10:46 PM
That is correct. I think these were first made several years before Goldin acted in 1993. It was not a NASA-produced item -- the maker pitched it in a catalog as a "fun" mock-up type thing at the time, but I don't know whether it was his/her original idea. |
FFrench
Member Posts: 3165
From: San Diego
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 11-15-2010 11:33 PM
So it sounds like, while McCulley was given this jacket officially while at NASA, the inclusion of this patch on it was probably someone having fun, not any indication it was ever officially adopted as a design? |
Go4Launch
Member Posts: 549
From: Seminole, Fla.
Registered: Jul 2003
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posted 11-16-2010 10:19 PM
That would be my view, Francis, yes. |
hoorenz
Member Posts: 1034
From: The Netherlands
Registered: Jan 2003
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posted 11-20-2010 11:37 AM
I just dug up some old info. The Wormball was designed by Dan Gauthier as a compromise "to make everyone happy." |
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