The logos are the official NASA logos, but the shop doesn’t appear to have any affiliation with NASA. To be honest, even official NASA gift shops are run by contractors. Buying a NASA tshirts at a NASA official gift shop doesn’t support the NASA mission. If anything, it supports the visitor center, or possibly employee programs. (At NASA Goddard, the gift shop is run by the “Goddard employee welfare association” which also runs employee clubs like “photo club” or “garden club”.)
@rinrinrin still they are the mission patch and as far as graphic tees go. Not the worst wordrobe to collect. Sometimes the crew designs them and usually they look cool. Still no idea on that site though
@unksol oh yeah, I have no problem with people selling NASA logo gear. Even Target does it. But if someone is looking for something NASA official, the link probably isn’t it. It doesn’t look like the official nasa gift shops have started to stock anything from crew 4 yet.
I’ve got plenty of NASA logo and mission patch gear (mostly missions I worked on), which I’ve ordered through internal custom lands end links as well as NASA gift shops, box stores, and from “print anything” sites like redbubble.
The first Crew-1 notice that someone else posted here, the order page actually had some kind of NASA internal ordering options; you could specify some kind of employee or specific location info. It was still the same underlying company (presumed contractor), tcbspecialties dot com. At some point the order pages just became standard retail so maybe they moved internal ordering to a private site? I know the older ones specified they were the official promotionals too. Perhaps that has changed.
I’ve ordered something from each of the promos and received everything I ordered. No complaints.
I am always intrigued when you post these. Is this an official NASA thing, or someone doing it independently? Just curious.
@bdb I mean the badges are real
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Crew-4
The site looks very meh but you can find tons of sites printing the badges so not unusual
The logos are the official NASA logos, but the shop doesn’t appear to have any affiliation with NASA. To be honest, even official NASA gift shops are run by contractors. Buying a NASA tshirts at a NASA official gift shop doesn’t support the NASA mission. If anything, it supports the visitor center, or possibly employee programs. (At NASA Goddard, the gift shop is run by the “Goddard employee welfare association” which also runs employee clubs like “photo club” or “garden club”.)
@rinrinrin still they are the mission patch and as far as graphic tees go. Not the worst wordrobe to collect. Sometimes the crew designs them and usually they look cool. Still no idea on that site though
@unksol oh yeah, I have no problem with people selling NASA logo gear. Even Target does it. But if someone is looking for something NASA official, the link probably isn’t it. It doesn’t look like the official nasa gift shops have started to stock anything from crew 4 yet.
I’ve got plenty of NASA logo and mission patch gear (mostly missions I worked on), which I’ve ordered through internal custom lands end links as well as NASA gift shops, box stores, and from “print anything” sites like redbubble.
The first Crew-1 notice that someone else posted here, the order page actually had some kind of NASA internal ordering options; you could specify some kind of employee or specific location info. It was still the same underlying company (presumed contractor), tcbspecialties dot com. At some point the order pages just became standard retail so maybe they moved internal ordering to a private site? I know the older ones specified they were the official promotionals too. Perhaps that has changed.
I’ve ordered something from each of the promos and received everything I ordered. No complaints.