On November 18, 2026, Voyager 1, Launched in 1977, will achieve a very unique space milestone: surpassing 1 light-day of distance from the Earth (25.9 billion kilometers). No other man-made object has ever attained this achievement.

The patch shows Voyager passing out of the Solar System after it's encounter with Saturn.  In the background of the patch is the infamous photo of Earth that was championed by asrtronomer/philosopher Carl Sagan, as made famous by his quote about the Pale Blue Dot:

"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives... on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam."

The sunbeam is shown and the position of the Pale Blue Dot is right where the Earth is in its orbit around the Sun. 

Carl Sagan also referred to Earth as being the shore of a vast "cosmic ocean", and Voyager 1 is our emissary on that journey.

The patch is 3" tall and features dye-sublimation and embroidery. 

Delivery is expected the third week of October 2026. 

The Boeing Intertial (nee Interim) Upper Stage is a solid fueled booster that is used to move satellites to geosynchronous orbit or spacecraft into interplanetary trajectories. Notebly udsed for the NASA TDRSS fleet, the Venus Magellan probe as well as the Galileo probe. The cutaway features the two solid fuel tanks, initiatos and engine bells within the IUS housing. Constructed in a way to mimic vintage contractor models of the 1980s. Model is apprximately 9 inches tall. The model comes in two separate stages. '

NASA’s Project Highwater was a series of upper-atmosphere experiments conducted in the early 1960s using the second stages of the Saturn I rocket during test flights for the future Apollo program. After completing their primary mission, the spent stages were intentionally ruptured to release tens of thousands of gallons of water into near space, creating massive expanding clouds of ice crystals and vapor that allowed scientists to study the ionosphere, atmospheric dynamics, and the effects of large-scale disturbances on radio communications during the early Space Age. This patch depitcts a Saturn I being split apart by the explosive charges. the patch is 4" in diameter and in stock.

Patch is 3 3/4 inches high. 

One bundle price for all of Retrorocket Emblems' Artemis Patches. 

This is a set of six patches that mark some major technical milestones of the Artemis II flight. These will be hybid dye-sublimation patches and embroidery patches. I wanted the dye-sublimtion to provide an authentic background with embroidery in the classic style for tactile and visual appeal. Each patch is in the same five-sided shape as the Artemis Program logo. The major milestones in this release include:

• Rollout
• Ascent
• TLI Burn
• Lunar Flyby
• Splashdown
• Recovery

The patches are 4" tall.

As the Artemis Program progresses, additional patches will be added to the set for new Artemis milestones. 

Patches will not be sold individually at this time.

Shipping anticipated to begin first week of February 2026. 

I am excited to release Part II of my ongoing mosaic of linked mission patches, inspired by NASA’s Artemis II. This design depicts two astronauts inside the Orion capsule, gazing out the window in quiet awe at the lunar surface—a moment of reflection that captures the human side of this historic mission. Created to interlock with the first patch, it advances a larger, story-driven mosaic. Earth rises over the limb of the Moon, echoing Apollo 8—a mission with similar objectives. Artemis II represents a human return not just to the Moon, but to firsthand experience, and I’m excited to share this next chapter with collectors. The patch is 4 inches wide and features a hybrid embroidery and DTF construction.

The Space Shuttle mission STS-38 (Atlantis, launched November 15, 1990) was a Department of Defense flight carrying classified payloads for the U.S. government. Because the details of the mission were classified, aspects of its insignia and informal emblems have taken on some lore among space and military patch collectors. The official NASA mission patch features two stylized shuttle orbiters — one white on top and a black/white mirror image below. NASA’s explanation focuses on honoring all those who support the Space Shuttle program, with the mirrored orbiter symbolizing often-unheralded contributors. The "Dark" version inverts the light and dark parts of the insignia .It is not known known how many of the original patch were actually made for the crew and support personnel. This patch is a 4" patch and will ship mid-January 2026. 

It's been said that when NASA was interviewing Gemini astronaut candidates, they had them all register at the Rice Hotel in Houston as "Max Peck" (which turns out to be the name of the hotel manager). This patch requires some suspension of belief in order to imagine all of these pilots, test pilots and aviators mingling in the hotel lounge wearing all the same name tag. While this never happened, this name tag is a bit of a play on this imaginary moment of an actual event. The patch is 3 1/2" wide and includes a matching decal. This patch will come mounted on velcro, which is a first for Retrorocket Emblems. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did imaginging it! Available mid-December 2025. 

(Sample image, patch in production)