The story behind this patch is an interesting one. I was coming off of back-to-back winning patch designs, one having been good enough to be published in the Space Camp brochure. I was eager to try and top my efforts from my previous Space Camp sessions. Upon arrival, I was disappointed to learn that Level II Academy did not have a mission patch competition. I suppose it had been decided that drawing and coloring a patch was below what the older high school aged kids would be interested in.
This didn't stop me from getting with the guys on my team and attempting to throw a patch design together during the few breaks we got from our busy schedule. My team this particular year was not as cohesive as in years' past, and there wasn't much interest from the rest of my teammates when it came to contributing in the design brainstorming effort. We settled on this design, and luckily I made a photocopy of it to take home before we colored it in. The image you see above is a scan of that original photocopy, colored and cleaned up in Photoshop.
So there you have it, the unofficial mission patch for the Johnson Team, twenty years ago this week.
