VERIFIED QUOTE · reported 2025-07-15
“Our first choice for a patch… has been disapproved,”
Deke Slayton · said date not stated · reported 2025-07-15
Deke Slayton wrote to artist Paul Calle explaining why NASA rejected their first choice for the Apollo-Soyuz patch.
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