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Apollo Lunar Missions Boot Print Patch
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Apollo Lunar Missions Embroidered Boot print Patch 

With the Apollo Missions 40th anniversaries behind us we have released this commemorative embroidered patch.

The patch measures approx 100 mm long.
Apollo's Goals

"That's one small step for man. One giant leap for mankind."
- Neil Armstrong

The national effort that enabled Astronaut Neil Armstrong to speak those words as he stepped onto the lunar surface, fulfilled a dream as old as humanity.

Project Apollo's goals went beyond landing Americans on the Moon and returning them safely to Earth. They included:
  • Establishing the technology to meet other national interests in space.
  • Achieving preeminence in space for the United States.
  • Carrying out a program of scientific exploration of the Moon.
  • Developing man's capability to work in the lunar environment.
Rocket and Spacecraft
The flight mode, lunar orbit rendezvous, was selected in 1962. The boosters for the program were the Saturn IB for Earth orbit flights and the Saturn V for lunar flights.

Apollo was a three-part spacecraft: the command module (CM), the crew's quarters and flight control section; the service module (SM) for the propulsion and spacecraft support systems (when together, the two modules are called CSM); and the lunar module (LM), to take two of the crew to the lunar surface, support them on the Moon, and return them to the CSM in lunar orbit.