[Eric Berger] After 60 years of spaceflight patches, here are some of our favorites

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/12/after-60-years-of-spaceflight-patches-here-are-some-of-our-favorites/

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bluelion@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y

The NROL patches are wild

threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y

There is a dedicated community of patch collectors out there, and some of them were disappointed that SpaceX stopped designing patches for each individual Starlink mission a few years ago. However, I would say that buying two or three patches a week would have gotten pretty expensive, pretty fast—not to mention the challenge designers would face in making unique patches for each flight.

I'm not a patch collector, but it would have been pretty funny (if a bit ridiculous) if they had kept this up. I wonder what the last Starlink patch was?