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Luca Oleastri June 03, 2008 20:37 0 Thumb-ups

Artemis I

Since its fundation, NASA give to many of its main rockets and spacecraft the names of Greeks goods (such as Apollo and Jupiter), so why changing this tradition if you want some kind of ostentation? :)

So I've selected the name Artemis for this and other reasons: Artemis was the Hellenic goddess of forests and hills, and was often depicted carrying a bow and arrows. The deer and the cypress were sacred to her.
She later became identified with Selene, a Titaness who was a Greek moon goddess, and she was sometimes depicted with a crescent moon above her head.

I've also designed a couple fo moon mission patch (see the pictures) with an eye to the NASA patches and the other to the Nostromo patches.
In one you can have a glimpse of the Artemis I spacecraft, in the other you can see the bow and arrow, the weapon carried by Artemis goddes ;)

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Mikko Monto July 17, 2008 11:50 Flag

The shape and overall feel of your badge is quite good, even though it is a little "full". Usually badges like this have as little details (and colors) as possible, because their purpose is mainly informative. I also like the idea behind your design, nice work!

Juho Savela June 04, 2008 01:39 Flag

I like Second one too. Nice thing is that the shape is similiar to Constellation Program's padge. One thing however, NASA usually adds names of the crew to mission padge, so it would be nice to have enough space for crew's names.

Robert Seppälä June 04, 2008 01:14 Flag

I like the 2nd one, because of the reference to the bow of Artemis. Do you think you could make the bow more classical looking, just curious to see how it would look with something like this:

http://www.tfaoi.com/am/10am/10am32.jpg

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