![]() ![]() I am enormously grateful, as ever, to Lily Maclaren for her keen eye in editing this document and related research at various stages of its development over the past seven years. Three reviewers, along with editorial guidance from Sarah Mills, provided enormously useful feedback in developing this paper for final production and I would like to thank them all for their generous input. T-shirts, posters, stickers, home decor, and more, designed and sold by independent. I am grateful to the organisers, chairs and audiences of the ‘Domesticating Geopolitics’ session at the RGS-IBG Annual Conference (September 2015), at the University of Exeter, UK, and the ‘Cold War Geographies’ Symposium (January 2017), at The Eccles Centre for American Studies, The British Library, London, UK where this research was initially presented. High quality Nasa Space Shuttle Patches-inspired gifts and merchandise. My thanks also go to Jacob Barber, Leslie Mabon and Ross Young for comments on previous drafts related to this research, and Lorna Philip and Mags Currie for their encouragement in continuing this interest. ![]() Conversations with Fraser MacDonald, Dan Sage, Jonathan Prior and Dan Swanton were very useful in talking through the ideas of this paper and associated research. Franklin Ginn and Jan Penrose helped to shape this research initially, and I am grateful to them for their guidance. I would like to thank all the those involved in the special issue, Rory Rowan, Julie Saperstein, Katherine Sammler, Casey Lynch and Oliver Dunnett, for their useful comments during the workshop process which helped to develop my arguments. I would like to thank the special issue organisers Julie Klinger and Danny Bednar for inviting me to contribute. This paper presents tangible examples of humanity’s engagement with outer space through the production of material cultures, while also pushing forward the agenda for further critical geographical engagement with outer space. ![]() Finally, that the consumption of the patches in museums and through popular culture assist in the construction of American Manifest Destiny in outer space. Second, that the iconography within the patches reflected the contemporary geopolitics of their time of production, but continued to subtly demonstrate American dominance in outer space. First, that the mission patches of the Space Shuttle programme presented a uniquely American framing of outer space in their iconography and can thus be read as geopolitical texts. In doing so, this paper advances three interrelated arguments. Drawing on visual methodologies and popular geopolitics, this paper critically engages with the patches’ iconography, their descriptions in official documentation, and the histories that frame their production. Each Space Shuttle mission had a unique patch designed to represent the mission, which were typically worn on the arm of astronauts’ space suits. This paper engages with the (geo)political imaginaries of the Space Shuttle mission patches, through a consideration of the iconography they contain. ![]()
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