Size: 30.3 x 23 cm.
Manufacturer: Roma Chemical.
Description:
Owens Corning contracted out the printing of NASA's beta cloth patches to the Screen Print Corp. of Coventry Rhode Island. There the insignia were screen printed onto rolls of beta cloth using Roma Chemical Questral pigments.
These were then cut into 9" squares (or 5½" in the case of the ASTP patches) with the printed designs at the centers. The hand-drawn 'cut lines' for the edges of these squares are often visible on one or more sides of beta cloth patches, as can be seen in the example on the left.
The beta cloth patches were supplied to NASA in this form, and many were carried as souvenirs on missions without any further treatment.
In mid-2017 a large stock of Roma Chemical Apollo 11 patch presentations (over 250) was discovered and began to be offered on eBay.
