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I have made some adjustments to the shipping options. Due to major increases in USPS First Class international rates, international customers have the ability to choose non-tracked shipping to bring their cost down. The option for tracked is still available at the new, higher rate. (First class USPS package with tracking to Europe is now $15)

I will still have to manually refund you for combined shipping when you place an order with multple items. 

 

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This patch commemorates the first 150M hop of the SN5 flight test article. Patch is 4" wide on the diagonal. 

Retrorocket Emblem's commemorates the flag that was captured and returned to earth by the SpaceX DM-2 crew. The flag was specifically left on the International Space Station by the STS-135 crew to be retrieved by the next crewed flight that originated from the USA. Nine years later it was retrieved and brought home by the DM-2 crew. The flag was also carried on the first space shuttle flight. 
This patch celebrates the milestone. 
 
 
Exclusive set from Retrorocket Emblems, these patches reproduce the NASA "worm", NASA "meatball" and flag of the USA as worn on the SpaceX flight suits the DM-2 crew wore to the International Space Station. These patches are produced in PVC, TPU and Silk and are affixed to a 8x10 presentation for display. 
 
 

This patch was produced as a bonus patch for the SpaceX Flight Suit patch set Kickstarter, but I am making it available to collectors. The patch celebrates the lineage of the "Endeavour" vessel name from Captain Cook to SpaceX. I wanted to produce it as soon as Elon Musk stated the name was "Dragonship Endeavor" [sic] when the name was revealed.  This is a 5" patch!

 

The space agency on Wednesday (Oct. 23, 2019) revealed new artwork symbolizing its Artemis program to send the first humans to the moon since the Apollo astronauts 50 years ago. In Greek mythology, the goddess of the moon, Artemis, was the twin sister of Apollo. - collectSpace
 
This patch uses a photo of the moon I took myself and uses a three step process to produce with an initial layer of embroidery for the moon texture, the dye-sublimation print of the moon over the texter and a final white embroidery layer depicting the woman's stylized profile. 
 

 

Enos was the second chimpanzee launched into space by NASA. He was the first chimpanzee, and third hominid after cosmonauts Yuri Gagarin and Gherman Titov, to achieve Earth orbit. Enos's flight occurred on November 29, 1961. This is a patch commemorating his spaceflight. It is 4" wide. 

 

Retrorocket Emblems is excited to release the Gemini 5 "Crew Souvenir" replica patch. This is the first time this style of patch has been made as a replica. Patch is 4" in diameter. 

Project Mercury was NASA first major project toward putting an American on the moon. Seven astronauts were selected to undergo these missions to evaluate how human's performed in space. 
 
Each of the mercury spacecraft was adorned with unique artwork of various styling reflecting the astronaut's chosen name for their spacecraft. While some of the artwork was simple lettering, the more flourished artwork was painted by artist Cece Bibby. 
 
The "official" Mercury patches that have been in circulation for decades are a notoriously lackluster series of patches. Eventually a set of simple, round patches were produced that more faithfully reproduced the spacecraft's respective artwork, but this set is hard to find and has been out of production for a long time. 
 
Originally I had planned to augment that set with just two designs: "Delta 7" and "Freedom 7 II" fantasy patches for two missions that never came to be. While Deke Slayton's "Delta 7" artwork is purely fantasy, Shepard's second flight actually has artwork on the capsule at the National Air and Space Museum. 
 
To differentiate these patches from the other sets, I have designed to them to appear as they did on the corrugated metal skin of the spacecraft.   
 
 

Another milestone in the crewed Dragon capsule program was a successful splashdown at sea after docking and undocking from the ISS. 

SOLD OUT

On August 27, 2019, SpaceX flew its ungainly "Starhopper" test vehicle on a 150M flight at its Boca Chica Texas facilities. The squatty appearance of the vehicle gave it many nicknames including the "Flying Water Tower". The successful test of the Raptor engine means the continuation of the Starship program for SpaceX. 

 

 

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