Object Details
Summary
This Gemini 6 mission patch was owned by John Bickers, a Public Affairs representative for the McDonnell Company (later McDonnell Douglas), an aerospace company that held contracts with NASA throughout Project Mercury, the Gemini program, the Apollo program, and the Space Shuttle program. He obtained the patch in the course of that work.
During his tenure with McDonnell, Bickers compiled and edited Press Reference Books for the Gemini Space Missions and supported early Space Shuttle flights.
Designed by the astronauts from this mission, Tom Stafford and Wally Schirra, this Gemini 6 mission patch was reproduced as a momento of the mission.
Bickers donated the mission patch to the Museum in 2007.
Credit Line
Gift of John Bickers
Inventory Number
A20080010000
Restrictions & Rights
Usage conditions apply
Type
MEMORABILIA-Events
Materials
Natural Fabric
Dimensions
3-D: 10.2 × 11.4 × 0.2cm (4 × 4 1/2 × 1/16 in.)
Storage: 15.2 × 16.5 × 2.5cm (6 × 6 1/2 × 1 in.)
Country of Origin
United States of America
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Data Source
National Air and Space Museum
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nasm_A20080010000