{"id":8066,"date":"2014-06-09T15:21:07","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T19:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8066"},"modified":"2014-06-09T15:21:07","modified_gmt":"2014-06-09T19:21:07","slug":"iss-astronauts-klingon-inspired-mission-patch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8066","title":{"rendered":"ISS astronaut&#8217;s Klingon-inspired mission patch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Pearlman reports that astronaut Steve Swanson, currently a crew member on the International Space Station, had a &#8220;badass&#8221; Star Trek Klingon inspired mission patch designed with the help of his daughter. However, it was eventually watered down into a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.collectspace.com\/ubb\/Forum18\/HTML\/001057.html\" target=\"_blank\">conventional patch<\/a> design:\u00a0<a style=\"font-size: 14px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.collectspace.com\/news\/news-060614a-klingon-star-trek-astronaut-patch.html\" target=\"_d\">Astronaut&#8217;s cloaked Klingon space patch: Star Trek-inspired emblem revealed &#8211; collectSPACE<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.collectspace.com\/news\/news-060614a-klingon-star-trek-astronaut-patch.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8068\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?attachment_id=8068\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Exp40MissionPatchDesigns_news-060614c.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"310,250\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Exp40MissionPatchDesigns_news-060614c\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Exp40MissionPatchDesigns_news-060614c.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8068\" src=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Exp40MissionPatchDesigns_news-060614c-300x241.jpg\" alt=\"Exp40MissionPatchDesigns_news-060614c\" width=\"300\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Exp40MissionPatchDesigns_news-060614c-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Exp40MissionPatchDesigns_news-060614c.jpg 310w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><em>Two designs by Steven Swanson and his daughter Caroline.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.collectspace.com\/news\/news-060614a-klingon-star-trek-astronaut-patch.html\" target=\"_blank\">Collectspace\/Swanson<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In this Instagram image of Swanson on the ISS, he has the Klingon inspired artwork on his T-shirt:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/instagram.com\/p\/mktyDwNPtr\/embed\/\" width=\"479\" height=\"556\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Pearlman reports that astronaut Steve Swanson, currently a crew member on the International Space Station, had a &#8220;badass&#8221; Star Trek Klingon inspired mission patch designed with the help of his daughter. However, it was eventually watered down into a conventional patch design:\u00a0Astronaut&#8217;s cloaked Klingon space patch: Star Trek-inspired emblem revealed &#8211; collectSPACE Two designs &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8066\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ISS astronaut&#8217;s Klingon-inspired mission patch<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,20,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living-in-space","category-space-arts","category-space-collecting"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-266","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1377,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1377","url_meta":{"origin":8066,"position":0},"title":"ISS research program gets mission patch designed by Shepard Fairey","author":"TopSpacer","date":"March 27, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS) is a nonprofit organization that promotes and manages research on board the International Space Station (ISS) U.S. National Laboratory. 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