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Shuttle Crew Escape Team Member - Blue Suit

The in-flight crew escape system is provided for use only when the orbiter would be in controlled gliding flight and unable to reach a runway. This condition would normally lead to ditching. The crew escape system provides the flight crew with an alternative to water ditching or to landing on terrain other than a landing site. The probability of the flight crew surviving a ditching is very slim.

The hardware changes required to the orbiters enable the flight crew to equalize the pressurized crew compartment with the outside pressure via the depressurization valve opened by pyrotechnics in the crew compartment aft bulkhead that would be manually activated by a flight crew member in the middeck of the crew compartment; pyrotechnically jettison the crew ingress/egress side hatch manually in the middeck of the crew compartment; and bail out from the middeck through the ingress/egress side hatch opening after manually deploying the escape pole through, outside and down from the side hatch opening. One by one, each flight crew member attaches a lanyard hook assembly, which surrounds the deployed escape pole, to his or her parachute harness and egresses through the side hatch opening. Attached to the escape pole, the crew member slides down the pole and off the end. The escape pole provides each crew member with a trajectory that takes the crew member below the orbiter's left wing.

There is also a red suited version of this Shuttle Crew Escape Team Member patch.

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Shuttle Crew Escape Team Member - Red Suit

The in-flight crew escape system is provided for use only when the orbiter would be in controlled gliding flight and unable to reach a runway. This condition would normally lead to ditching. The crew escape system provides the flight crew with an alternative to water ditching or to landing on terrain other than a landing site. The probability of the flight crew surviving a ditching is very slim.

The hardware changes required to the orbiters enable the flight crew to equalize the pressurized crew compartment with the outside pressure via the depressurization valve opened by pyrotechnics in the crew compartment aft bulkhead that would be manually activated by a flight crew member in the middeck of the crew compartment; pyrotechnically jettison the crew ingress/egress side hatch manually in the middeck of the crew compartment; and bail out from the middeck through the ingress/egress side hatch opening after manually deploying the escape pole through, outside and down from the side hatch opening. One by one, each flight crew member attaches a lanyard hook assembly, which surrounds the deployed escape pole, to his or her parachute harness and egresses through the side hatch opening. Attached to the escape pole, the crew member slides down the pole and off the end. The escape pole provides each crew member with a trajectory that takes the crew member below the orbiter's left wing.

There is also a blue suited version of this Shuttle Crew Escape Team Member patch.

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Apollo-Soyuz Test Project - Training

This patch was labeled as representing the training aspect of the ASTP mission.

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Apollo Reunion - American Space Week 1986

Produced in limited number by A-B Emblem. A hybrid of the Apollo 1 and Apollo program patch designs.

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Approach and Landing Test (ALT)

On January 31, 1977, it was taken by road to Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, to begin operational testing.
While at NASA Dryden Enterprise was used by NASA for a variety of ground and flight tests intended to validate aspects of the shuttle program.[9] The initial nine-month testing period was referred to by the acronym ALT, for "Approach and Landing Test". These tests included a maiden "flight" on February 18, 1977, atop a Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) to measure structural loads and ground handling and braking characteristics of the mated system. Ground tests of all orbiter subsystems were carried out to verify functionality prior to atmospheric flight.
The mated Enterprise/SCA combination was then subjected to five test flights with Enterprise unmanned and unactivated. The purpose of these test flights was to measure the flight characteristics of the mated combination. These tests were followed with three test flights with Enterprise manned to test the shuttle flight control systems.

There are two versions be low, I suspect the top one is the original. They are very similar. The "G" in the top one has a descending vertical. 

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STS-26 - "America's Pride" - The Journey Continues - Rockwell

A special edition patch from Rockwell International commemorating the completion of STS-26, the space shuttle's return to flight.

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First Lunar Landing of Mankind - Swissartex

In the confusing realm of patch makers, it often comes down to the original packaging to determine who made exactly what. 

The Swissartex version of this patch can be identified by the number of "points" in the foremost craters, with 6 instead of the 10 or more of the other versions.

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Vandenberg SCAPE "Hot Flows" Patch - SLC-6

STS-62-A was a planned Space Shuttle mission to deliver a reconnaissance payload (Teal Ruby) into polar orbit. It was expected to use Discovery. It would have been the first manned launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. The mission designation, 62-A, meant: 6=fiscal year 1986, 2=Vandenberg (1=Kennedy Space Center), and A=first flight in that fiscal year.

The destruction of Challenger and subsequent halt of the Space Shuttle Program led to the cancellation of the mission.

S.C.A.P.E. refers to Self-Contained Atmospheric Protective Ensemble

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Apollo 11 commemorative - 3" - Dallas Cap & Emblem

This patch is a member of a set of Apollo patches that, while closely resemble A-B Emblem's 3" set, have several identifiable differences that set them apart. Versions with different border colors are also found.

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First Lunar Landing of Mankind

Commemorating the Apollo 11 landing on the moon.
This version is bare cloth on the back. Commonly seen mounted in a plastic frame for the Needle Painters Guild.
At first I believed this was an A-B Emblem issue, but I have spotted in a Cape Kennedy Medals patch (now attached) to this post.

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Apollo 12 - 3" - Cape Kennedy Medals

Produced in both cloth-backed and plastic backed form by Cape Kennedy Medals. Prior to 2014 they were pretty hard to find, but the explosion of Cape Kennedy Medals patches onto the market in bulk form has made them more readily available. 

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Shuttle Class of 1987

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ISS "...the global adventure"

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"RASTRO-2" - STS-67

Astro-2 was the second dedicated Spacelab mission to conduct astronomical observations in the ultraviolet spectral regions. It consists of three unique instruments – the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope (HUT), the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UIT) and the Wisconsin Ultraviolet Photo-Polarimeter Experiment (WUPPE). These experiments will select targets from a list of over 600 and observe objects ranging from some inside the solar system to individual stars, nebulae, supernova remnants, galaxies and active extragalactic objects. This data supplemented data collected on the Astro-1 mission flown on STS-35 in December 1990 aboard Columbia.
A pun of annunciating "ASTRO-2" designed by Paula Vargas.

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Apollo 11 - LEM 5 - 4" - Cape Kennedy Medals

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Shuttle Crew Escape System (Pole cats)

The in-flight crew escape system is provided for use only when the orbiter would be in controlled gliding flight and unable to reach a runway. This condition would normally lead to ditching. The crew escape system provides the flight crew with an alternative to water ditching or to landing on terrain other than a landing site. The probability of the flight crew surviving a ditching is very slim.

The hardware changes required to the orbiters enable the flight crew to equalize the pressurized crew compartment with the outside pressure via the depressurization valve opened by pyrotechnics in the crew compartment aft bulkhead that would be manually activated by a flight crew member in the middeck of the crew compartment; pyrotechnically jettison the crew ingress/egress side hatch manually in the middeck of the crew compartment; and bail out from the middeck through the ingress/egress side hatch opening after manually deploying the escape pole through, outside and down from the side hatch opening. One by one, each flight crew member attaches a lanyard hook assembly, which surrounds the deployed escape pole, to his or her parachute harness and egresses through the side hatch opening. Attached to the escape pole, the crew member slides down the pole and off the end. The escape pole provides each crew member with a trajectory that takes the crew member below the orbiter's left wing.

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38th Space Congress 2001

Space Congress is the oldest forum on space technology in the world and encourages the world's aerospace community to discuss the status and future of space activities around the world.  An organizing committee of CCTS has chosen  "A SPACE ODYSSEY - THE NEXT 50 YEARS" as its 2001 theme.

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Mars 1900

Unknown purpose or maker

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JSC / St. Luke's Blood Donor

souvenir patch

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X-15 Triangle Patch

Comemmorating the X-15 Project

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45th Operations Group

The 45th Operations Group is a United States Air Force unit. It is assigned to the 45th Space Wing, stationed at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.
The 45th Operations Group was responsible for program management and operation of five squadrons which perform all Eastern Range launch operations including Delta II, Delta III, Atlas II, Atlas III, Titan IV, Space Shuttle, Pegasus, and Athena space launch vehicles.
The Operations Group provides support to Naval Ordnance Test Unit operations. In support of space launch operations, the Operations Group coordinates training for the wing, manages all wing spacecraft services systems and facilities, and manages the Patrick AFB air traffic complex, handling more than 24,000 aircraft operations annually.

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Conquistador I - Millennium Mission

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Atlas Guidance

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Go for Stack (SLC-6)

One of a 5 patch set from SLC-6.
Replica from Eagle One Aerospace.

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Go for Power Up (SLC-6)

One of a 5 patch set from SLC-6.
Replica from Eagle One Aerospace.

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Go for Mate (SLC-6)

One of a 5 patch set from SLC-6.
Replica from Eagle One Aerospace.

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Go for Launch (SLC-6)

One of a 5 patch set from SLC-6.
Replica from Eagle One Aerospace.

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Go For FRF (Flight-Readiness Fire) SLC-6

One of a set of 5 patches from SLC-6.
Replica from Eagle One Aerospace.

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Vandenberg Launch Site - Discovery (SLC-6 version)

This patch has 'SLC-6' instead of 'STS-1V' as found on a similar patch.

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Vandenberg Launch Site - Discovery (STS-1V version)

This patch has 'STS-1V instead of 'SLC-6' as found on a similar patch

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Space Technology Experiment (NRO)

National Reconnaisance Office
 

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Apollo 11 - First on the Moon

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