Early Alabama Space Center patch...

[p51]

I scored these off eBay today:

I was thinking of putting the JSC, KSC and HQ ones on my helmet bag as I’ve been to each of these places, more than once. That is, until I found out that they were actually ‘tabs’ to be worn under the STS program patch:

It seems they’re pretty rare, actually. Notice how they look exactly like the early flight suit patches for SC, which clearly must have been designed at some point with this in mind!

Looks like the same width as well. It never occured to me that they were carrying over a one-time approved NASA design concept with these...

[Steve]

Really interesting early patches, I have never seen these before. Great Score

[Hotdog]

Makes me wonder if these are real then, and if these also go under the STS program patch?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/NASA-Space-Shut ... 35c7ba615c

Does the source where you found that drawing list specifically what the content of the add-ons can be?

[p51]

Makes me wonder if these are real then, and if these also go under the STS program patch?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/NASA-Space-Shut ... 35c7ba615c

Does the source where you found that drawing list specifically what the content of the add-ons can be?

Nah, I found that on the Collect Space forum, none of them had a complete list of them.
As for the previous patches, I think those were made for kids, I've seen them for sale in the 'space toys' area of the gift shop of a local museum, I was going to get a set of them off eBay until I realized what they were really for...