<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/a2fbad8e-b819-44a7-8ea5-33d65dafa691/A4FA46B5-0F1D-4A74-8446-8D7E4D2F411B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/08/nasas-most-awesomely-weird-mission-patches/" href="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/08/nasas-most-awesomely-weird-mission-patches/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.wired.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/08/nasas-most-awesomely-weird-mission-patches/"><LI class="entryAuthor"> By Alexis Madrigal <A href="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/08/nasas-most-awesomely-weird-mission-patches/mailto:alexis.madrigal@gmail.com"> <IMG width="14" height="11" border="0" alt="Email Author" src="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/wp-content/themes/wired/images/envelope.gif" /> </A> </LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/08/nasas-most-awesomely-weird-mission-patches/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.wired.com/img/CA03D121-BEB3-4DA5-AA6D-7214AD336D06" alt="ladiespatch02-collectspace-670" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/08/nasas-most-awesomely-weird-mission-patches/"><P>The patches above were <A href="http://www.genedorr.com/patches/Skylab/Sk03.html">drawn and worn by the wives</A> of the astronauts on those respective missions. They are nearly identical to the actual patches, but the central figure is a woman instead of Leonardo Da Vinci’s<A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitruvian_Man"> Virtruvian Man</A>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/08/nasas-most-awesomely-weird-mission-patches/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.wired.com/img/F94F2577-8B06-4530-AB02-71ABC0C5EE79" alt="colbert_large" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/08/nasas-most-awesomely-weird-mission-patches/"><P>The Stephen Colbert patch commemorating the treadmill that sort of bears his name on the International Space Station combines the new photorealistic style with the line drawings of older patches.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/08/nasas-most-awesomely-weird-mission-patches/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.wired.com/img/ADB7A056-C6E8-4BD4-9069-06C6F5DE7F2B" alt="apollo12-pirateship" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/08/nasas-most-awesomely-weird-mission-patches/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.wired.com/img/A4DE9797-AAAC-44D7-8264-BD27A70ECE41" alt="marsrovers670px" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/08/nasas-most-awesomely-weird-mission-patches/"><P>NASA hasn’t shied away from using well-known figures on its patches in recent years. In 2003, Daffy Duck and Marvin Martian made appearances on two <A href="http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=11681">patches for Mars Exploration Rover missions</A>. (Many thanks to <A href="http://www.collectspace.com/">CollectSPACE</A> for these images.)</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/08/nasas-most-awesomely-weird-mission-patches/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.wired.com/img/8965BC29-B7C6-4E49-AF08-CF46400C03E0" alt="tmnt" /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/08/nasas-most-awesomely-weird-mission-patches/2/" href="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/08/nasas-most-awesomely-weird-mission-patches/2/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.wired.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/08/nasas-most-awesomely-weird-mission-patches/2/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.wired.com/img/7AC6C159-EB4D-45B6-A168-569E4BA08423" alt="gem51" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/08/nasas-most-awesomely-weird-mission-patches/2/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.wired.com/img/F089E6A5-0F35-47F1-97BF-10E8184AE216" alt="sts-5-pewpew" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/08/nasas-most-awesomely-weird-mission-patches/2/"><P>Most shuttle mission patches used the shuttle itself as the dominant theme. Perhaps as a result, <A href="http://history.nasa.gov/mission_patches.html">most of them are pretty boring</A>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/08/nasas-most-awesomely-weird-mission-patches/2/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.wired.com/img/337A3FC2-3067-401C-B3DC-CB2D6B57DCA2" alt="hubblehuggers" /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/08/nasas-most-awesomely-weird-mission-patches/" href="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/08/nasas-most-awesomely-weird-mission-patches/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.wired.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/08/nasas-most-awesomely-weird-mission-patches/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.wired.com/img/58590CC8-48EF-4BEC-B2DC-FDC84D04AC49" alt="mir24_a" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/08/nasas-most-awesomely-weird-mission-patches/"> Here, we see a patch from NASA 6/Mir 24 mission where Mir acts as the hammer of the traditional Communist symbol, the hammer and sickle.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/08/nasas-most-awesomely-weird-mission-patches/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.wired.com/img/BFB67B34-4B78-4A22-9255-E43B94636253" alt="rn" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/08/nasas-most-awesomely-weird-mission-patches/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.wired.com/img/5C444869-8F1E-414B-A47B-DDAD49296FE2" alt="skylab-iconographic" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/A4FA46B5-0F1D-4A74-8446-8D7E4D2F411B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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