posted 01-15-2008 10:04 PM               

According to Yi, who had hoped to design the patch herself (and continues to hope to create the patch for her flight, should it happen), the emblem was produced for the South Korean agency through a commercial contract, although don't expect to find souvenir versions for sale. At least, not yet...

Chatting with collectSPACE, Ko explained that only the two they were wearing had been made thus far and he didn't know of plans to offer it to the South Korean public. He had seen the many NASA mission patches for sale during his visit to Houston, even desiring a few for himself, and thought it would be a good idea if the same was available in his home country.