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After 60 years of spaceflight patches, here are some of our favorites

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First NASA mission patch came from the Vostok 6 mission in 1963 that carried Valentina Tereshkova into low- Earth orbit for nearly three days .

NASA 's first mission patch would not follow for two years , but the practice would prove more sticky for missions in the U.S. The first NASA flight to produce a mission-specific patch was Gemini 5 .

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English

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