Apollo Missions Owens Corning Beta Cloth Patches Flag Framed NASA STAR WARS 1969

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Apollo Missions Owens Corning Beta Cloth Patches Flag Framed NASA STAR WARS 1969:
$500.00

ALL 11 Apollo Mission Patches & US Flag On Beta Cloth Framed Presentation by Owens/Corning Fiberglas

Back of print has description of each mission.

(Upper left corner has 399Y marking because it was bought at an estate sale)

This beautiful piece of NASA history was recently purchased at an estate sale.

Measures: 16.5 inches X 20.5 inches

SPC was the company contracted by Owens Corning to print the Apollo Mission patches on OC\'s Beta Cloth:

\"Beta Cloth is a fire proof material woven from teflon coated glass fibres. It was supplied to NASA by the Owens Corning Corporation for use as the outer layer of the Apollo space suits and in-flight garments worn by the astronauts after the Apollo 1 fire. In order to reduce the use of flammable materials to a minimum it was logical that the mission patch, NASA insignia, U.S. Flag, and name tag used on each space suit and coverall from Apollo 7 onwards would also be produced in beta cloth rather than embroidered cloth. In general these beta cloth patches were never made available commercially and are now highly sought-after collectibles. Owens Corning (of Ashton, RI) contracted out the printing of NASA\'s beta cloth patches to the Screen Print Corp. (of Coventry Rhode Island). There the insignia were screen printed onto rolls of beta cloth using Roma Chemical Questral pigments. These were then cut into 9\" squares (or 5½\" in the case of the ASTP patches) with the printed designs at the centers. The hand-drawn \'cut lines\' for the edges of these squares are often visible on one or more sides of beta cloth patches. The beta cloth patches were supplied to NASA in this form, and many were carried as souvenirs on missions without any further treatment. Unfortunately Screen Print Corp. closed it\'s doors in 1983.\"

Prior to being added to the estate sale, it had been stored in a cloth bag in a closet for many years, and so does not exhibit the yellowing common on many framed presentations of this vintage. It does however have some light scratching around the frame.

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WILL ONLY CONTINUE TO INCREASE IN VALUE.

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