Resources

The following printed materials were used as sources of information for these web pages.

Brooks, Courtney, Grimwood, James, and Swenson, Lloyd. Chariots for Apollo: A History of Manned Lunar Spacecraft. NASA, 1979. NASA SP-4205. Available online at the NASA History Office web site.
Cernan, Eugene and Davis, Don. The Last Man on the Moon. St Martin's Press, 1999. ISBN 0-312-19906-6. Available at Amazon.com.
Collins, Michael. Carrying the Fire. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1974. Available at Amazon.com.
Cooper, Gordon. Leap of Faith. Harper Collins, 2000. Available at Amazon.com.
Cunningham, Walter, with Herskowitz, Mickey. The All-American Boys. Macmillan Co., 1977. New edition available at Amazon.com.
Duke, Charles and Duke, Dotty. Moonwalker. Oliver Nelson, 1990. ISBN 0-8407-9106-2
Ezell, Edward and Ezell, Linda. The Partnership: A History of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. NASA, 1978. NASA SP-4209. Available online at the NASA History Office web site.
Farmer, Gene and Hamblin, Dora Jane. First on the Moon: A Voyage with Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr. Little, Brown, 1970.
Freas, Frank Kelly. Skylab Patchwork. Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, June 1973, pp. 10-19.
Glenn, John, with Taylor, Nick. John Glenn: A Memoir. Bantam, 1999. ISBN 0-553-11074-8. Available at Amazon.com.
Hengeveld, Ed. Apollo Vacuum Chamber Tests — Part 1: 2TV-1. Spaceflight magazine, March 2000, pp.127-130. Part 2: LTA-8. Spaceflight magazine, April 2000, pp.171-174.
Hengeveld, Ed. The Apollo Emblems of Artist Al Stevens. Spaceflight magazine, June 2008, pp. 220-225. Available online at collectSPACE.
Kaplan, Judith and Muniz, Robert. Space Patches: From Mercury to the Space Shuttle. Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., New York. 1986. ISBN 0-8069-6294-1
Kircher, Travis. More Than Just a Merit Badge. Ad Astra magazine, Nov/Dec 2000, pp. 23-25. Also available online at collectSPACE.
Kozloski, Lillian. U.S. Space Gear: Outfitting the Astronaut. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C., 1994. ISBN 0-87474-459-8
Kranz, Gene. Failure Is Not an Option. Simon and Schuster, 2000. ISBN 0-7432-0079-9. Available at Amazon.com.
Lattimer, Dick. All We Did Was Fly to the Moon. The Whispering Eagle Press, Gainesville, FL. ISBN 0-9611228-0-3 This book is the ultimate reference for anyone interested in space mission patches. Lattimer has performed the groundwork of getting the story behind most patch designs. A great many of the quotes on this site are from this book. Available at many science museum gift shops, as well as online bookstores such as Amazon.com.
Murray, Charles and Cox, Catherine Bly. Apollo, The Race to the Moon. Simon and Schuster, 1989. ISBN 0-671-61101-1
Slayton, Donald K. and Cassutt, Michael. Deke! Forge, 1994. ISBN 0-312-85918-X. Available at Amazon.com.
Southwell, David. Once-Lost 'Apollo' Mural Graces Astronauts' Eatery. Chicago Sun-Times, 8 June 1999.
Still, Russell. Relics of the Space Race. Third edition, 2001. This excellent book provides a wealth of data on the manufacture of space mission patches. According to Still, the primary sources for embroidered patches were AB Emblems and Lion Brothers; but it's a much more involved story than that, and Still follows the trail. Information on obtaining this book can be found at the collectSPACE web site.

Wilson, Keith. The First US Astronaut Crew Patches. Spaceflight magazine, May 1996, pp.172-173. A discussion of Gemini crew patches.

Patch Information on the Web

Jacques van Oene has a terrific Space Patch website. He's gathered significant information to supplement what's found in Lattimer. He seems to specialize in "unofficial" patches, and authored (with Bert Vis) an article on the subject which was published in the March 1999 issue of the British Interplanetary Society's Spaceflight magazine. Be sure to visit his site.
Ed Hengeveld's article on Al Stevens' patches was based on the work of collector Noah Bradley, whose fascinating Lunar Archive blog includes further examples of Stevens' work. .
Ron Goode has an abundant collection that he displays to excellent effect on his website SpaceSoupPatches.
Les Badges du Cosmos is (despite the excruciatingly annoying wiggling titles) a really good resource for non-US patches. Site navigation is a little obscure, but it's well worth exploring.
Johnson Space Center's Imagery Services has a Digital Image Collection which includes "official" images of mission patches. The scans are, sadly, not all that great. For quality digital images, I recommend the Project Apollo Archives, also cited below.
NASA has a page for Space Shuttle Mission Patches, but the last time I checked, it hadn't been updated since 1998. Also, the size and quality of the images varies drastically.

General Spaceflight Information Sources

NASA's Human Spaceflight site is a good starting place.
Both the NASA Headquarters History Office, and the Johnson Space Center's new History Portal are "required reading" if you're seriously interested in pre-Shuttle missions.
The Apollo Lunar Surface Journal and the Apollo 15 Flight Journal are excellent sources of information on the Apollo lunar landing missions.
Some of the high-resolution scans of NASA photos on this site are from the excellent Project Apollo Archives. This is the best site on the web for great scans of NASA photos -- at least, the best one I know about.
A wonderful statistical reference for the Apollo missions is Apollo by the Numbers.