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NASA's "worm" logo is back!
Hello All,
NASA is not abandoning its classical "meatball" logo, but--for some applications--they will again use their 1970s-vintage red "worm" logo. I was surprised to see, in *this* https://spaceflightnow.com/2020/04/...st-crew-launch/ SpaceFlightNow article about the upcoming manned SpaceX Demo-2 mission in May (scheduled for the 27th), that its Falcon 9 launch vehicle has been painted with a red NASA "worm" logo, which reads properly when the vehicle is horizontal in its preparation building. Also, the caption for the photograph (which appears about halfway down the "screen-page") says: "The Falcon 9 rocket that will launch the Demo-2 mission is emblazoned with NASA’s “worm” logo, which was retired from official use in 1992. “The retro, modern design of the agency’s logo will help capture the excitement of a new, modern era of human spaceflight on the side of the Falcon 9 launch vehicle that will ferry astronauts to the International Space Station as part of the Demo-2 flight,” NASA said. The iconic blue NASA meatball logo will remain the agency’s primary symbol. Credit: SpaceX"
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I was very happy to see the meatball come back in '91 though I didn't see any reason to "retire" the worm in the first place. It definitely 'works' on the side of the Falcon 9. And the meatball is still on the rocket, above the Falcon logo.
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I've never been a big fan of the worm logo font. I've always liked the meatball.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQhwNtY3N2k
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I don't 'mind' the worm logo, but if I had to choose I'd go with the meatball. It's design is somewhat timeless and regal; the worm definitely has that mid-70s vibe to it.
Earl
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Each looks good, in its aesthetically appropriate place. British, French, and other military aircraft of countries with tricolor and bicolor flags often have two-color (even if their nations' flags have three colors) or three-color "roundels" on their wings (with roundels often on their forward fuselage sides, as well), with a two- or three-color "tail flash"--which looks like a small flag--on each side of the vertical stabilizer. The RAF's Avro Vulcan bomber (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Vulcan ) carried two-color and three-color roundels and tail flashes during various stages of its long career, as the photographs show, and:
On NASA winged space vehicles, such as reusable boosters and orbiters, and smaller spaceplanes, the NASA "meatball" logo could be placed like roundels, on the wings (and on the forward fuselage as well, if desired). The "worm" logo could be placed like tail flashes, on the vertical stabilizer(s), so that it would read "NASA" when the vehicles were in a horizontal attitude.
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