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Topic: SpaceX CRS-11 patch: ISS resupply flight
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Moonbase Alphan
Member Posts: 137
From: Space City, Texas
Registered: Dec 2006
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posted 05-04-2017 06:45 PM
  
NASA's insignia for SpaceX's eleventh Commercial Resupply Services flight to the International Space Station. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 54158
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 05-31-2017 03:10 PM
SpaceX's CRS-11 mission patch (the insignia is the same shape and general layout as the CRS-4 patch given this flight marks the reuse of the Dragon spacecraft):  |
Kevin T. Randall
Member Posts: 1647
From: Chesham, Bucks UK
Registered: Dec 2008
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posted 05-31-2017 04:48 PM
The NASA SpX-11 patch manufactured by AB Emblem with the following details on the embedded label;- 264642 Made In USA 5/17/20 (on an old style plain white label)
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Bill Hunt
Member Posts: 406
From: Irvine, CA
Registered: Oct 2002
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posted 07-07-2017 05:55 AM
What happened to the embroidered version of the SpaceX patch, does anyone know? |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 54158
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 07-07-2017 07:57 AM
Other than VIP launch guests, NASA Social participants and press, who receive patches after a successful launch, SpaceX has taken to delaying the public sale of its patches until after mission success. For Dragon flights, that means after splashdown.The patches are generally available (via the Air Force Space & Missile Museum gift shop and on eBay) within a few days to a week or so after the Dragon returns. CRS-11 splashed down on July 3. Here is an example of the patch from Curiosity.com, a CRS-11 Social participant, via Twitter:  |
Bill Hunt
Member Posts: 406
From: Irvine, CA
Registered: Oct 2002
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posted 07-07-2017 02:55 PM
Thanks for posting that, Rob. Nice to see it. I asked, because the Iridium 2 and BulgariaSat-1 patches (for flights that launched after CRS-11) are already available. Must just be a production snag. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 54158
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 07-07-2017 03:15 PM
Quite possibly. That said, those missions ended on the same day they launched and so were presumably approved for release before CRS-11. The Dragon splashed down the same day as Iridium launching, but it may be that SpaceX waits until the Dragon arrives back on shore before declaring the flight a success. |
Bill Hunt
Member Posts: 406
From: Irvine, CA
Registered: Oct 2002
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posted 07-07-2017 06:14 PM
Good point, I hadn't thought of that. It certainly makes sense. Thanks, Rob! |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 54158
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 07-18-2017 06:34 AM
The CRS-11 patch is now available (via the Air Force Space & Missile Museum gift shop and on eBay). |
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