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Perhaps the best thing about NASA’s military provenance is that the agency picked up the armed services’ habit of making patches. Some are cooler than most:

Like Raphael here.

NASA selected a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle to represent the Multi-Purpose Logistics Modules of the International Space Station project because three of the four modules share names with those characters.

The modules were built by the Italian Space Agency, so they are named after the Italian Renaissance artists, rather than the turtles. [Turtle Power!]

And these two lovable space oddities:

NASA hasn’t shied away from using well-known figures on its patches in recent years. In 2003, Daffy Duck/Duck Dodgers and Marvin Martian made appearances on two patches for Mars Exploration Rover missions.

Read Full Article: WIRED

~ by Fionnlagh on August 29, 2009.

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