posted 04-12-2021 09:00 AM               

Universal Astronaut Insignia to unite world space explorers and travelers

Two days after Yuri Gagarin became the world's first person to fly into space, his country, the former Soviet Union, presented him a small, military-style insignia representing that he was a Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR.

A similar practice began in the United States in December 1961, eight months after Gagarin was honored, when the U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force bestowed Alan Shepard and Virgil "Gus" Grissom with their respective branch's astronaut wings.

What has not existed until now has been a symbol to unite every person who has flown into space. Enter the Universal Astronaut Insignia.