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Topic: Space movies and other fictional crew patches
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Member Posts: 3105
From: Paris, France
Registered: Aug 2003
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posted 04-12-2012 02:05 AM
   
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Originally posted by dcfowler1:
They are from the TV movie, "Earth II", ca. mid 1970s
Thanks Dave. I found some screenshots showing some of the cast (including Gary Lockwood) in Apollo-style EVA suits with these patches. |
p51
Member Posts: 1625
From: Olympia, WA
Registered: Sep 2011
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posted 10-18-2012 12:45 AM
Someone now makes a pretty good Apollo 18 movie patch, which looks even better than the production crew one!  It's listed as APOLLO 18 - PATCH, item # NASA18. The same outfit regularly has them on eBay now, it would be easy to find there... |
carl walker
Member Posts: 358
From: Netherlands
Registered: Feb 2006
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posted 10-18-2012 08:44 AM
Hey thanks. Darn it, someone beat us to it. Nice job, but it's only 3.5 ins, and the moon is not as detailed as it could be. I think we could still do a closer replica.  By the way, can you drop your mailing address to me here. I have something you might be interested in. |
lucspace
Member Posts: 395
From: Hilversum, The Netherlands
Registered: Oct 2003
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posted 10-18-2012 01:17 PM
The Apollo 18 is of good quality in respect of embroidery, but not very faithful to the art of the original. This should be done again, and at 4 inches... but is there enough interest? |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42430
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 10-18-2012 01:33 PM
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Originally posted by lucspace:
...but is there enough interest?
Perhaps a better question: is there a license? Copyright on the insignia doesn't expire for at least another 94 years... |
p51
Member Posts: 1625
From: Olympia, WA
Registered: Sep 2011
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posted 10-18-2012 03:16 PM
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Originally posted by Robert Pearlman:
Perhaps a better question: is there a license?
I really wonder if these sci-fi patch places even bother to ask for permission when they make these things. I know that fans often make patch copies and sell them to their friends, all under the radar. I'd bet that most of the sci-fi patch copies you see for sale are probably done without permission at all but I have no evidence to support it. |
carl walker
Member Posts: 358
From: Netherlands
Registered: Feb 2006
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posted 10-18-2012 03:35 PM
Fair point, but for info, I have contacted the film producers/owners of one older movie (now transferred over to U.S.), and they were not in the slightest interested. I would still prefer permission to make a copy, even if not granted a license for commercial production (not my intention by the way). I did this in the 1980s with Gerry Anderson with regards a Space:1999 patch. |
dogcrew5369
Member Posts: 749
From: Statesville, NC
Registered: Mar 2009
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posted 10-20-2012 12:21 AM
Got to get me one of these perfect or not. I wish a Walker would have gone to the moon. Maybe in a parallel universe. |
carl walker
Member Posts: 358
From: Netherlands
Registered: Feb 2006
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posted 10-20-2012 04:33 PM
Like.  I take it you are of the Walker clan too! |
dogcrew5369
Member Posts: 749
From: Statesville, NC
Registered: Mar 2009
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posted 10-20-2012 04:55 PM
Yep, dogcrew5369 is an homage to the late Dave Walker, my namesake exactly, and his two dogcrew flights STS-53 and 69. What is funny is that my father once owned Redbones.
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p51
Member Posts: 1625
From: Olympia, WA
Registered: Sep 2011
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posted 10-20-2012 05:54 PM
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Originally posted by dogcrew5369:
Got to get me one of these perfect or not. I wish a Walker would have gone to the moon. Maybe in a parallel universe.
I hear you there. I once looked at all the lists of past astronauts, hoping that someone with my last name (Bishop) had been on a mission somewhere and I could get the mission patch for a NASA jacket. No such luck, even though the last name isn't uncommon no Bishop has yet gotten into space (I tried to be the first but that dream died at the hands of a USAF flight surgeon friend who checked me out and found a few things that would keep me out of space). |
dogcrew5369
Member Posts: 749
From: Statesville, NC
Registered: Mar 2009
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posted 10-21-2012 03:34 PM
I guess I can't complain too much. At least there are a number of real patches with Walker on them. Thought about putting together a framed collection. I wouldn't put this Apollo 18 in with them. Even putting them on a jacket crossed my mind, but would end up cluttered with all the shuttle, ISS and Soyuz patches on it. |
heng44
Member Posts: 3358
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 10-27-2012 03:32 AM
I haven't read the complete thread, so I don't know if this one has been discussed already. Caption of the photo: Capt. Charles 'Pete' Conrad, moonwalker of Apollo 12 fame, makes his acting debut in 'Stowaway To The Moon', a two-hour special on CBS-TV Friday, January 10, 1975. Conrad plays a Walter Cronkite character in the 20th Century-Fox drama, which also stars Lloyd Bridges, Jeremy Slate, Morgan Paull and John Carradine. |
Besixdouze
Member Posts: 231
From: Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Registered: Jan 2011
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posted 10-29-2012 07:14 AM
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Originally posted by p51:
I once looked at all the lists of past astronauts, hoping that someone with my last name (Bishop) had been on a mission somewhere and I could get the mission patch for a NASA jacket.
Let's not forget that strange guy on board the Sulaco with all those colonial marines who shared your surname. Doesn't he count? |
Hart Sastrowardoyo
Member Posts: 3443
From: Toms River, NJ
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 10-29-2012 11:31 AM
Goldberg auctioned off two of the Stowaway patches, which is a better look at the color scheme. |
p51
Member Posts: 1625
From: Olympia, WA
Registered: Sep 2011
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posted 10-29-2012 11:52 AM
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Originally posted by Besixdouze:
Let's not forget that strange guy on board the Sulaco with all those colonial marines who shared your surname. Doesn't he count?
Nah, as he never wore a uniform and there was no patch that had the names of the Marines. Yeah, I'm a huge fan of "Aliens" and not even for that reason! quote:
Originally posted by Hart Sastrowardoyo:
Goldberg auctioned off two of the Stowaway patches, which is a better look at the color scheme.
Thanks for the link, I found the movie on YouTube and watched it over the weekend (man, that kid was annoying and Pete Conrad's acting was far less impressive than his flight record), hadn't seen it since it first aired. I couldn't for the life of me figure out what that large blob was on the patch until I saw the link you posted! |
issman1
Member Posts: 1031
From: UK
Registered: Apr 2005
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posted 10-30-2012 07:15 AM
Just out of interest, was there a patch for the crew of the interstellar ship "Prometheus" in the eponymously titled movie? This the closest I found. |
Hart Sastrowardoyo
Member Posts: 3443
From: Toms River, NJ
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 12-01-2012 10:50 AM
"Family Matters" had an episode with Steve Urkel on board the shuttle Explorer. It must have been made without NASA's cooperation, as the PLT - the guy sitting on the right side, the viewer's left - wore what looked like a short sleeve shirt with an (I think fictional) "ILA" patch on the left breast (as opposed to a NASA meatball), colonel's insignia on both lapels (!) and an airborne tab and lightning bolt arrowhead (!!) on the left sleeve. |
Philip
Member Posts: 5906
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 12-22-2012 10:39 AM
BBC's 1999 TV-documentary Space Odyssey: a voyage to the planets showed a nice winged horse "Pegasus" patch. |
p51
Member Posts: 1625
From: Olympia, WA
Registered: Sep 2011
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posted 12-22-2012 04:28 PM
How about the UK show, "Space Cadets"?They had a mission patch but I have never seen a good version of it, I've only seen the show on YouTube... |
carl walker
Member Posts: 358
From: Netherlands
Registered: Feb 2006
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posted 07-27-2013 07:25 AM
More patches from Defying Gravity (another patch featuring an astronaut Walker, jeez they get everywhere). |
mode1charlie
Member Posts: 1159
From: Honolulu, HI
Registered: Sep 2010
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posted 07-27-2013 04:11 PM
quote:
Originally posted by carl walker:
More...[patches]... featuring an astronaut Walker, jeez they get everywhere).
Carl, maybe someone from your clan of Walkers should commission a "Luke Sky Walker, it is your destiny!" space patch. |
dogcrew5369
Member Posts: 749
From: Statesville, NC
Registered: Mar 2009
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posted 07-27-2013 07:18 PM
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Originally posted by carl walker:
(another patch featuring an astronaut Walker, jeez they get everywhere)
I love it! Thanks Carl. Might have to try to get that one. And my wife once thought Luke would be a great name if we had a boy. I reminded her that he would be called Luke Skywalker the rest of his life. She dropped it. |
mooncollector
Member Posts: 104
From: Alabama, USA
Registered: Feb 2011
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posted 08-20-2013 10:09 PM
Just got one of the "Apollo 18" patches with the descending lunar module. It is a 4" patch with pretty good detail (although they could have done better with the LM legs) and made basically in the same embroidered style as the AB Emblem ones we are used to. I liked the concept of the far side landing portrayal and so I bought one even though it's a fantasy item! |
p51
Member Posts: 1625
From: Olympia, WA
Registered: Sep 2011
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posted 08-22-2013 01:21 AM
I must admit it's a pretty good design, and whoever did the art had a feel for the time period, I think. It's easy for me to imagine this being a real Apollo patch in an alternate past where the program went to Apollo 20... |
Hart Sastrowardoyo
Member Posts: 3443
From: Toms River, NJ
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 08-22-2013 11:53 AM
Some of the publicity photos from "Mission to Mars" shows some of the fictional emblems done as background art, including one with Musgrave and the Columbus and Jovian II patches. |
p51
Member Posts: 1625
From: Olympia, WA
Registered: Sep 2011
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posted 08-22-2013 12:46 PM
Has anyone seen the live-action Japanese movie, "Space Brothers"? At the end, the two brothers are walking out to the crew van and they pass a line of mission patch designs on a wall, each with different mission numbers, but they all have the exact same patch design on them. |
p51
Member Posts: 1625
From: Olympia, WA
Registered: Sep 2011
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posted 08-27-2013 08:18 PM
I thought you'd all get a kick out of a screen-used spacesuit from "Marooned" from a very well-heeled collector. |
Hart Sastrowardoyo
Member Posts: 3443
From: Toms River, NJ
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 08-27-2013 08:52 PM
Why does a 1969-used suit have a 1972 wrist checklist? |
Hart Sastrowardoyo
Member Posts: 3443
From: Toms River, NJ
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 09-03-2013 08:20 PM
Via eBay (271268989357), a photo of Jerry O'Connell showing most of the Mars Recovery patch. |
p51
Member Posts: 1625
From: Olympia, WA
Registered: Sep 2011
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posted 11-29-2013 09:41 PM
I just found this, from the truly awful movie, "The Core" on Hilary Swank's NASA flight suit: |
Hart Sastrowardoyo
Member Posts: 3443
From: Toms River, NJ
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 12-15-2014 08:03 PM
I finally found a ISTC patch from EPCOT's Mission:SPACE ride. Original packaging, not sure if they sell it at the park - I got this on the secondary market.  |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42430
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 12-15-2014 09:52 PM
There was also a different, limited edition Mission:SPACE patch sold when the ride first opened that noted "Pioneer Crew 2003." |
p51
Member Posts: 1625
From: Olympia, WA
Registered: Sep 2011
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posted 12-16-2014 10:55 AM
Just scored a complete set of Defying Gravity ISO patches, all production-made. |
Bill Nelson
Member Posts: 151
From: Lakewood, Colorado U.S.A.
Registered: Jul 2006
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posted 10-12-2015 03:25 AM
There is talk about projects of making patches. A question — Has anyone seen an image of the Gemini 13 patch from the miniseries of James Michener's Space? That might make an interesting project if anyone can get a hold of an image good enough to see a clear view of the patch. |
Liembo
Member Posts: 538
From: Bothell, WA
Registered: Jan 2013
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posted 10-12-2015 12:05 PM
quote:
Originally posted by p51:
Just scored a complete set of Defying Gravity ISO patches, all production-made.
Funny, related, story: I just acquired Felicia Day's screen-worn "Astraeus" patch from the Eureka TV series that was formerly attached to one of those exact same space suits that Defying Gravity recycled from Eureka: |
p51
Member Posts: 1625
From: Olympia, WA
Registered: Sep 2011
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posted 10-12-2015 04:28 PM
Actually, the suits were made for Defying Gravity and later used on the other show, not the other way around.A lot of the DG stuff went to auction by the same company that made a killing selling the props and costumes from the Battlestar Galactica reboot, but they didn't get many bids at all as DG wasn't a very well-known show. Many sci-fi fans had never even heard of it at the time. A great deal of the stuff that never sold at all went as a huge lot to a French collector. He wound up with a full EVA suit with thrusters and all, and tons of other items... Afterward, the people who did win stuff and hadn't paid much, being sci-fi fans and always wanting the newest thing, didn't do well at all in a secondary market. I got a screen-used 'ascan' flight suit for very little... |
dcfowler1
Member Posts: 68
From: Eugene, OR
Registered: May 2006
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posted 04-27-2016 10:09 AM
A new Weyland Yutani patch from the upcoming Alien sequel: |
dogcrew5369
Member Posts: 749
From: Statesville, NC
Registered: Mar 2009
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posted 04-27-2016 07:25 PM
Would that be Prometheus 2? |
GoesTo11
Member Posts: 1308
From: Denver, CO
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted 04-27-2016 09:34 PM
Both, as I understand it. "Alien: Covenant" (August 2017) is apparently a linear sequel to Prometheus which merges that storyline fully into the Alien franchise. |
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