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From: rkolker@netxcom.UUCP (rich kolker)
Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Getting NASA patches
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Date: Thu, 22-Oct-87 08:53:42 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 22 08:53:42 1987
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In article <458@ncspm.ncsu.edu> jay@ncspm.UUCP (Jay Smith) writes:
>interesting patches like the Roadrunner Apollo 14 patch (can anyone
>explain this one?). 

It was the patch of the backup crew for Apollo 14 (I'm not sure who that was,
but in general, the rules in those days were backup flight x, fly on
flight x+3, so it might have been Cernan Evans and Schmitt).  NASA was
(and maybe still is) big on using cartoon and comic characters for such
uses as color coding (Snoopy on Skylab) and the zero-defects program (lots
of BC and Wizard of Id posters...boy I'd love to have one).  I do have a
sticker version of a Wizard of ID Skylab patch with Rodney and the Wizard
in a wooden bucket in orbit, looking out with a spyglass.

>
>Gemini 5 -- "8 days or bust" was not on the patches worn
>during the flight because NASA didn't want adverse publicity in case
>they didn't meet the mission objectives (newspaper headline:
>"Astronauts Have To Settle For Bust").  It was the original design,
>though.
My infomation was that some white parachute nylon was sewn over
the legend during the flight, so that Cooper/Conrad could tear
it off after the mission on the patches they flew with.

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