Does this article read too much in to the patches?http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1033/1

Who are the designers, painters and seamstresses who make them? They are quite intricate, and production must only be a handful.

For shuttle missions, crew members design, with artistic helpers.

Design Management Journal: One giant leap for identity: Designing NASA’s mission patches (PDF)

The collection: NASA History: Mission Patches

I presume other team members design the patches on uncrewed missions.

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it's the Freemasons, along with the Illuminati.
they control everything else, so i'm sure there is something from them in the NASA mission patches..

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I don't think that it's reading to much into it, but more a matter of making a big deal out of nothing.

So what if its revealing stuff the public or the press doesn't know, or if it is not publicized?

The simple fact is that some of these clues are readily available information if you know where to look. (as in the case of orbital elements)

Other clues are probably well known to people who supposedly shouldn't know through other means. It's the details that are what really matters.

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And, I'm keeping in mind that the people who run programs like that aren't dumb as doorknobs, and know that the patches may be analyzed, and they'd be foolish not to use them for advantage to hide certain things, to proclaim other things, and even to plant desired falsehoods in the minds of the analysts.

In my career of building consumer products, we humble wage slaves issue codenames, press leaks, and symbolic wear, that sometimes tell the truth and sometimes lie, to keep the market and the competition and sometimes even our own coworkers thinking what we want them to think. And, we're just rank amateurs, not warriors designated to keep democracy safe.

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Only about as much as playing Dark Side of the Rainbow.

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