Patch for the NASA Astronaut Group 8
<ul><li>The idea for a class patch came from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guion_Bluford" class="extiw" title="w:Guion Bluford">Guy Bluford</a>, who asked famous space artist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_McCall_(artist)" class="extiw" title="w:Robert McCall (artist)">Robert McCall</a> to design the patch. McCall designed the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-1" class="extiw" title="w:STS-1">STS-1</a> crew patch and Bluford piggy backed on that effort to have him design the Group VIII one as well. According to Bluford, there was no special symbolism in the design. (Bert Vis in "Spaceflight", October 2000, p. 410)</li></ul>
NASA, Robert McCall, Judith Resnik, Guion Bluford
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