This photo exemplifies why I love creating patches. The crew of Artemis II are absolutely wearing all the patches from that career that have signifcant, deep, earned meaing to them. They wear them with pride. Each design has significant meaning to both the individual, the crew and the team that got them there. Godspeed, Artemis II.

Starship Flight Test IFT-6 Patch

On November 19, 2024, SpaceX launched the sixth integrated flight test of the Starship Super heavy stack. The milestones of this mission were another tower catch and atmospheric reentry stress-test on the Starship spacecraft. The tower landing was aborted, but the booster and Starship landed at sea in controlled burns. The Starship used previous generation tiles and had more exposed skin areas to test their exposure to heat. This patch depicts a stress guage that is pegged out to max and shows a stylized representation of the Starship heat shields after the test with missing and broken tiles, which were expected for this flight.

Patch will ship at the beginning of January 2025.