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Topic: Rockwell space shuttle orbiter logos
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lucspace
Member Posts: 432
From: Hilversum, The Netherlands
Registered: Oct 2003
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posted 04-20-2021 04:36 AM
   
A number of the space shuttle orbiter logos are known, presumably produced by Rockwell at the time, a few of which have turned up as embroidered patches. What is the status of these designs? Just logos or patch designs? And were the embroidered examples produced by Rockwell?  |
Liembo
Member Posts: 714
From: Bothell, WA
Registered: Jan 2013
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posted 04-20-2021 11:33 AM
The patch versions of those decals that I have use modern multi-head embroidery machines which means they're made well after the era that those decals were, so I presume the patches we see today are not original.  |
Ken Havekotte
Member Posts: 3217
From: Merritt Island, Florida, Brevard
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 04-21-2021 04:42 AM
All the earlier Rockwell decals were produced by their graphics department at Palmdale, CA, throughout the 1970/80's. If you want to see all of the decal sticker designs, I'll be happy to depict them all here. There are dozens of them. To my knowledge, there were no vintage cloth patches produced by the aerospace company for any of the decal design issues. |
lucspace
Member Posts: 432
From: Hilversum, The Netherlands
Registered: Oct 2003
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posted 04-21-2021 08:12 AM
Certainly interested in the other designs!So I guess I should contact Boeing if I wanted to produce one or more designs as a patch? |
Ken Havekotte
Member Posts: 3217
From: Merritt Island, Florida, Brevard
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 04-21-2021 04:16 PM
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OV-105
Member Posts: 854
From: Ridgecrest, CA
Registered: Sep 2000
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posted 04-22-2021 01:36 AM
They used all those designs on the Rockwell covers for those missions also. That is where I remember seeing them. |
lucspace
Member Posts: 432
From: Hilversum, The Netherlands
Registered: Oct 2003
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posted 04-22-2021 01:39 AM
Thanks for showing them, Ken! There are some more cover designs, I will add those here for completeness soon. |
Jacques van Oene
Member Posts: 875
From: Houten, The Netherlands
Registered: Oct 2001
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posted 04-22-2021 09:12 AM
Unknown origin of the two patches, but looks like its different then the one Liem posted. |
Ken Havekotte
Member Posts: 3217
From: Merritt Island, Florida, Brevard
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 04-22-2021 10:17 AM
I've only posted those known decal stickers here, however, I do have all of these and others not shown as cachet covers by The Rockwell Space Division Stamp Club of Downey, CA. I also have all the original rubber stamp devices of the same logos depicted that had been used in servicing cachet envelope covers by the employee club. |
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