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Program Patch
NASA employees
often design "mission patches" to symbolize their projects and programs.
Shuttle-Mir's mission patch description reads: "The rising Sun signifies
the dawn of a new era of human spaceflight, the first phase of the U. S./Russian
space partnership, Shuttle-Mir. Mir is shown in its proposed final on orbit
configuration. The Shuttle is shown in a generic docking tunnel/Spacehab configuration.
The Shuttle-Mir combination, docked to acknowledge the union of the two space
programs, orbits over an Earth devoid of any definable features or political
borders to emphasize the Earth as the home planet for all of humanity. The individual
stars near the Shuttle and the Mir station represent the previous individual
accomplishments of the U. S. and Russian space programs. The binary star is
a tribute to the previous U. S./Russian joint human spaceflight program, the
Apollo Soyuz Test Project. The flags of the two nations are symbolized by flowing
ribbons of the national colors interwoven in space to represent the two nations'
joint exploration of space. NASA SHUTTLE and 
are shown in the stylized logo fonts of the two agencies that are conducting
this program."
Related
Links:
Goals of the Shuttle-Mir Program
Tours | Goals | Joint Report | Benefits of Shuttle-Mir | Shuttle-Mir Illustrated History Book
Curator:
Kim Dismukes
Responsible NASA Official: John Ira Petty