Item: Apollo Beta cloth American flag patch
Size: 14 x 20 cm. (flag: 6.5 x 12.1 cm.).Manufacturer: Owens Corning Fiberglas Corp.
Description: After the fire of Apollo 1 on January 27, 1967, NASA worked with Owens-Corning and DuPont to develop beta cloth, a fireproof cloth of woven fiberglass coated with Teflon, as a replacement for the nylon outer layer of the Apollo/Skylab A7L space suit. This American flag is the rarer-smaller of the patches to find. The larger were also used on the Lunar Rover, whilst this is a patch that might of been applied to the shoulder area of the Apollo Space Suit.
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