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Mission
Patch
Build
team spirit. Demonstrate your team's energy and investigative
creativity. This part of the application is optional, but it is
a lot of fun to do-especially for students who can draw, print,
design, or paint. Develop a Mission Patch, or Theme Song, or Team
Motto.
 NASA
creates a mission patch for each mission, and the Astronauts and
mission team members all wear it on their uniforms. Mission patches
are colorful and illustrate the themes of the mission.
1. Investigate the idea. Every NASA flight
and significant space probe has its own Mission Patch, a colorful,
collectible symbol for that mission.
2. The Mission Patch attempts to capture
in colorful pictures and symbols the goals of the mission and
its hopes for the future. The final Mission Patch you send to
Mission Control may be a composite of ideas or one patch selected
as most representative of your class as a whole.
3. Do you have an idea for a theme song or team motto? Those
of you who are musically inclined, or who enjoy working with
words, might add a slogan or a theme song with or without lyrics.
To learn more about mission patches,
and see many examples, follow the links to the
NASA mission patch page. We post some of the mission patches
for e-Mission: Space Station Alpha on our
website and in our entryway at the Challenger Learning Center.
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