Item: Apollo 11 VIP Launch Access Badge

Size: 7.6 x 12.6 cm

Description: VIP Access badge used during the launch of Apollo 11. It comes with the plastic holder and clip. The blue badges were for the VIP guests and the gray badges were for the general public. This one is #6322.

President Lyndon B. Johnson during the launch of Apollo 11.

Members of the public with their VIP access badges.

Image taken from Apollo 11, a documentary by Douglas Miller.

Artifact: Yuri Malenchenko's personal metal badge flown on Soyuz TMA-11 (Expedition 16).
Date of use: October 10, 2007 - April 19, 2008.
Dimensions: 3.8 x 3 cm.
Weight: 11 gr.
Status: Flown.

Description: The design for this badge was comissioned by Alex Panchenko for Yuri Malencheko's flight on Soyuz TMA-11 (Expedition 16). It features jet fighter Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 flown by him during during his time at the Air Force, a Soyuz spacecraft and the Russian flag circling the globe.

It was taken aboard Soyuz TMA-11 on October 10, 2007. It stayed in orbit for 197 days, and onboard the International Space Station until April 19, 2008. The Expedition 16 were Peggy Whitson, Yuri Malenchenko, Clayton Anderson, Daniel Tani, Léopold Eyharts, and Garrett Reisman.

See Yuri Malenchenko's personal patch in my collection.

More information:

Soyuz TMA-11 (Wikipedia)