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CASIS Has Another SciFi Patch. But We Made It Better

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
June 13, 2018
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Filmmaker Ridley Scott Creates 2018 International Space Station U.S. National Laboratory Mission Patch
“The Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS) today announced the unveiling of its latest mission patch, designed by award-winning filmmaker and producer, Sir Ridley Scott. The mission patch represents all payloads intended for the International Space Station (ISS) U.S. National Laboratory in calendar year 2018.”
Keith’s note: The folks at CASIS seem to be preoccupied with SciFi. In the past they have created patches featuring Groot, Rocket Raccoon, and Star Wars droids. Yet the SciFi thing has not really helped them fill up the ISS with science goodness. After 7 years they have yet to fully utilize the resources NASA has been made available to them. That said, they like SciFi, and that’s just fine so long as they remember what it is NASA is paying them $15 million a year to do. When I originally got this press release a small graphic was attached. It is supposed to be a Ridley Scott design but I could not really get a Ridley Scott vibe. So I fixed it. Which one do y’all like better?
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9 responses to “CASIS Has Another SciFi Patch. But We Made It Better”

  1. Jeff2Space says:
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    That official patch confuses the heck out of me with that face in the center of why looks like a robot or something (doesn’t look like anything I’ve seen on ISS).

  2. Bob Mahoney says:
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    Creepy.

    The original, that is.

    Shouldn’t you credit H.R. Geiger with the revision, though?

    And I think Mr. Scott needs to take a look at some more artwork if he’s out to achieve a saintly ‘halo’ look; a few artists have come before him with perhaps better success. His description reminds me of the ‘saints in surgical garb’ line from MASH’s Yankee Doodle Doctor.

    • fcrary says:
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      Which, again, isn’t original. The movie, rather than the television show, had a very nice parody image of Da Vinci’s “The Last Supper.” But since it’s come up on another NASA Watch discussion, the revised logo does raise planetary protection issues. (And the plot of a very bad movie which I’d prefer to forget.) Back contamination is an issue and, as far as I know, the plans for a Mars sample return haven’t figured that part out.

  3. Shaw_Bob says:
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    The ISS badly needs a cat. Elon Musk can provide the flamethrower. Also, no eggs aboard, please!

  4. space1999 says:
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    Wait, isn’t that David Bowman?

    https://tedhicksfilmetc.fil