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APOLLO 1 – Cloth emblem. 1966.

One of the very first production runs of Apollo 1 emblems, given to Tom Stafford by Gus Grissom.

Illustrating an Apollo spacecraft in Earth orbit. The inner yellow band carries the mission number along with the crew member last names. The emblem is displayed on Tom Stafford's SIGNED provenance letter, reading: "It was given to me by Apollo 1 mission commander Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom at the end of 1966. It came as shock to us in the Astronaut Office as well as the entire nation and the world that he and crew members Edward White and Roger Chaffee were killed in a spacecraft fire on the launch pad just a few weeks later in January 1967."

Cloth emblem, 3.5 inches in diameter.

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