magellan

STS-30 was the 29th NASA Space Shuttle mission and the fourth mission for Space Shuttle Atlantis. The mission launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 4 May 1989, and landed four days later. During the mission, Atlantis deployed the Venus-bound Magellan probe into orbit.

STS-30 was the 29th NASA Space Shuttle mission and the fourth mission for Space Shuttle Atlantis. The mission launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 4 May 1989, and landed four days later. During the mission, Atlantis deployed the Venus-bound Magellan probe into orbit.

This version of the STS-30 patch was manufactured by Swissartex Emblem Inc. if it has a vacuum sealed backing. Or if it is the modern version with a plastic coated backing then it was manufactured by Eagle Crest Emblem Inc. of Taiwan.  The border is distinct in appearance.

STS-30 was the 29th NASA Space Shuttle mission and the fourth mission for Space Shuttle Atlantis. The mission launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 4 May 1989, and landed four days later. During the mission, Atlantis deployed the Venus-bound Magellan probe into orbit.

This is the modern A-B Emblem. The border attempts to remain faiithful to the swirling border of the original. 

STS-30 was the 29th NASA Space Shuttle mission and the fourth mission for Space Shuttle Atlantis. The mission launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 4 May 1989, and landed four days later. During the mission, Atlantis deployed the Venus-bound Magellan probe into orbit.

Originally named the Venus Orbiting Imaging Radar (VOIR), its initial design was scaled back and the craft was redesignated the Venus Radar Mapper (VRM). Eventually the machine would be called MAGELLAN, after the Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan (circa 1480-1521).
Mission STS-30
Space Shuttle: Atlantis OV-104
crew:              5
Launch:           May 4, 1989, 18:46:59 UTC
                      Kennedy Space Center, LC-39B
Landing:          May 8, 1989, 19:43:27 UTC
                      Edwards Air Force Base, runway 22
Duration:         4d 0h 56m 28s

NASA's Magellan spacecraft made a dramatic conclusion to its highly successful mission at Venus when it is commanded to plunge into the planet's dense atmosphere Tuesday, October 11, 1994. During its four years in orbit around Earth's sister planet, the spacecraft has radar-mapped 98 percent of the surface and collected high-resolution gravity data of Venus. Magellan was the first planetary spacecraft to be launched by a space shuttle when it was carried aloft by the shuttle Atlantis from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 4, 1989.