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GACspaceguy
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posted 01-08-2015 10:14 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for GACspaceguy   Click Here to Email GACspaceguy     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Does anyone recognize this Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum patch? What is it and what is the symbol in the center?

Liembo
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posted 01-08-2015 01:24 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Liembo   Click Here to Email Liembo     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The orbital path reminds me of Ulysses, but the probe does not (at least not identically).

SpacemanT
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posted 01-08-2015 01:44 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for SpacemanT     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Maybe it's a stylistic representation of Voyager or Pioneer.

spacenerd01
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posted 01-08-2015 03:11 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for spacenerd01   Click Here to Email spacenerd01     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Hello! I work at the National Air and Space Museum and I can tell you that the object in the middle of the patch is an overhead view of the 1903 Wright Flyer. I have to admit though, that the in question image does look something like a deep space probe!

GACspaceguy
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posted 01-08-2015 05:27 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for GACspaceguy   Click Here to Email GACspaceguy     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I see it now! Welcome to your first post and I thank you so much!!!

Rocketman!
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posted 01-09-2015 12:37 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Rocketman!   Click Here to Email Rocketman!     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
When the Smithsonian opened the (then) new flagship Air and Space building on the Washington, D.C. Mall in 1976, I got one of these patches. I have never seen another example until now. I had my mother sew the patch on a baseball cap. You can see from the photo that it got a lot of use.

Note the differences between my original version and the apparently new copy pictured in the opening post. The central artwork is oriented differently relative to the text. The thread direction on the Earth also looks to be different.

GACspaceguy
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posted 01-09-2015 04:53 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for GACspaceguy   Click Here to Email GACspaceguy     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Thanks. I do not think the one I have is new. I was found in a collection of an older fellow, who passed away. It was amoung all of his Boy Scout patches.

Intersting in the variations though.

p51
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posted 01-09-2015 05:09 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for p51   Click Here to Email p51     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
Originally posted by GACspaceguy:
I see it now!
Yeah, me too, after removing my glasses and doing a lot of squinting...

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