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. |
We are happy to annount our third Kickstarter campaign. This time we are offering a set of replica patches: STS-61E and the STS-41C "Black Cat" patch. This is our first time offering a set of replicas rather than original designs and we are pretty excited by the support thus far.
The STS-61E patch has been reproduced in the past, at leat 4 times, usually as a one piece design. The intent of this patch is to reproduce the STS-61E patch that was produced originally in limited quantities.
The STS-13/STS-41C "Black Cat" has also seen a previos reprodution but we are hoping for a more accurate representation.
The "Black Cat" patch was designed by the late Dick Scobee and Retrorocket Emblems the permission of his family to reproduce the design.
A big thank you to all of the backers to made the second Kickstarter campaign a huge success. The See-Bassett commemorative patch will be made! The campaign raised almost twice the original funding goal so I added a stretch goal for a second patch to be made. It seems only fair to use the extra funds for more creative work and the stretch goal was funded within a few days. I let the backers and collectors vote on which patch they would like to see included.
The votes were overwhelmingly in support of a Deke Slayton Delta 7 fantasy patch to complement the Eagle One Aerospace Mercury artwork patch series. The second place votes supported a Pegasus Satellite patch.
On the heels of our successful inaugural Kickstarter campaign, Retrorocket Emblems has launched a second campaign to raise funds for a patch that commemorates Elliot See, Jr and Charles Bassett II as prime crew of Gemini IX.
Due to the success of our 2014 Kickstarter Campaign and with a very special thank you to the supporters who made that happen, Retrorocket Emblems is happy to announce the very limited availability of four new commemorative patches:
HAM the Astro Chimp Commemorative Patch
RRE has three new patches coming Q4 or Q1 2014. We plan to release all three simultaneously as part of a Kickstarter campaign which will allow you to acquire all three at a special price. We here at RRE have a desire to create patches that fill in some of those gaps in the Space Race era. We hope these three offerings do just that.