Expedition 37 Patch

Company

NASA

Price

$6.95

Source

Official Store

The Mission Patch: Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man, created some 525 years ago as a blend of art and science and a symbol of the medical profession, is depicted amongst the orbits of a variety of satellites circling the Earth at great speed. Da Vinci’s drawing, based on the proportions of man as described by the Roman architect Vitruvius, is often used as a symbol of symmetry of the human body and the universe as a whole. Almost perfect in symmetry as well, the International Space Station, with its solar wings spread out and illuminated by the first rays of dawn, is pictured as a mighty…