Apollo/Mercury Program pins/badges

crazycatguy42

Hi guys!! I recently found these beautiful old commemorative astronaut pins at a shop in Melbourne, can anyone here tell me about them?
Were these made by NASA themselves or were they done unofficially?
Also, does anyone know if similar pins were made for the other Apollo missions?
I've found ones for the rest of the Mercury 7, but the only ones for the other Apollo missions I've found were of the insignias, not the political badge kind of look that mine have. Any info you could share would be much appreciated!!!

picklepete

Need pics ?

crazycatguy42

@picklepete said:
Need pics ?

These are them!! I had such a headache when I posted this I must have forgotten to include the image lol!

dontippet

Very interesting items, but this is a sports card forum, so there may not be many people on here that have any expertise with this type of collectible.

daltex

@dontippet said:
Very interesting items, but this is a sports card forum, so there may not be many people on here that have any expertise with this type of collectible.

The name of the forum is Trading Cards & Memorabilia. I don't think these are off topic.

SDSportsFan

Your best bet would probably be to go to collectSpace.com via the link below. If you click on it (yes, it's perfectly safe), and go to the bottom of the page, under "Space Collecting", you'll see a forum called "Patches & Pins". Post your question and picture there, and I'm sure someone there would be able to help.

collectspace.com/cgi-bin/Ultimate.cgi

Steve