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Mr. Cunningham will be pleased to sign photographs, books, or other
material that you provide for a charge of $90 per item and $5 per 10 word inscription. If you
desire that Mr. Cunningham
furnish the photo, there will be an additional charge of $10.
All fees payable in US funds.
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Mr. Walter Cunningham
5110 San Felipe #162W Houston, TX 77056
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you safely and expeditiously. However, he takes no responsibility for loss of any item(s) sent
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of any kind
NEW ITEM!
Limited Edition Apollo 7 Patch

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GENEALOGY
OF THE
APOLLO 7 PATCH
As
the backup crew for Apollo 1, our intention was to focus on
NASA’s recovery from the fire on the pad.
Our original concept was to depict a Saturn 1B rising from a
ball of fire and call
it the Phoenix.
Al Steven's, of North
American Rockwell, gave us a couple of nice sketches.
All patch
designs are subject to NASA approval and we abandoned the
Phoenix theme feeling it would be rejected as in bad taste.
Wally asked me to give Stevens a new idea.
I
focused on the earth orbital nature of our
mission.
After
some discussion
with Donn Eisele,
I sketched out the round Earth with the command module in
elliptical orbit front of it.
The orbital
plane was tilted for artistic reasons.
From my sketches, Al
Stevens did the final artwork
and Wally approved the final design.
Calling our
spacecraft “Phoenix” was out. Following the first manned
Gemini mission, NASA adopted a policy against naming
spacecraft. They were out of favor until Apollo 9, when
having two spacecraft on the same radio frequency at the
same time made it essential.
I do
not recall who manufactured our original
patch. I did not
copyright the design and it has been copied
many times, both
officially and commercially, in various
sizes and usually with slightly different colors. The lousy
copies finally motivated me to work with Tim Gagnon to
create as accurate a reproduction of our original patch as
possible.
The limited
edition of 300
is of higher quality than the original with a built-in means
for me to determine authenticity. The limited edition
patches are available only on my website, are numbered on
the back and come with a certificate of authenticity.
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