Space Shuttle Tribute: Best space logos

Last week saw the launch of the Final Space Shuttle Mission (STS-135). The exploration of space, planets, stars and all that comes with it has fascinated me since childhood. NASA has a great history of using special and unique logos for many of its projects and missions.

The current mission has its own logo:

Here are some other beautiful space theme logos I found:

The NASA “meatball” logo

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• The sphere represents a planet
• The stars represent space
• The vector represents aeronautics
• The orbit represents space travel
• A great history on the logo from NASA website here.

The old NASA logo

Other NASA and space logos:

• – USPTO Registration
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Further reading:

• USPTO page on the space shuttle patents
• NASA has an amazing repository of video here
• NASA patches