{"id":11458,"date":"2024-07-15T18:02:57","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T22:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zobi.alcowep.com\/bourtagshdrevxnls658739\/the-meatball-turns-65\/"},"modified":"2024-07-15T18:02:57","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T22:02:57","slug":"the-meatball-turns-65","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zobi.alcowep.com\/bourtagshdrevxnls658739\/the-meatball-turns-65\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Meatball\u2019 Turns 65"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe Meatball\u2019 Turns 65<\/h2>\n

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Painters stand on suspended platforms as they work on painting the red, white, and blue NASA \"meatball\" logo on the white and gray Vehicle Assembly Building. The painters are tiny compared to the size of the logo.<\/a><\/figure>
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Painters work on the official NASA insignia, nicknamed \u201cthe meatball,\u201d on the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 29, 2020.<\/div>\n
NASA\/Kim Shiflett<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

NASA\u2019s official logo, nicknamed the \u201cmeatball,\u201d turned 65<\/a> on July 15, 2024. The insignia dates back to 1959, when the\u00a0National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics<\/a>\u00a0(NACA) metamorphosed into an agency that would advance both space and aeronautics: the\u00a0National Aeronautics and Space Administration.\u00a0After a NASA Lewis (now Glenn) Research Center illustrator\u2019s design was chosen for the new agency\u2019s official seal, the head of Lewis\u2019 Research Reports Division, James Modarelli<\/a>, was asked by the executive secretary of NACA to design a logo that could be used for less formal purposes.<\/p>\n

In the design, the sphere represents a planet, the stars represent space, the red chevron is a wing representing aeronautics (the latest design in hypersonic wings at the time the logo was developed), and then there is an orbiting spacecraft going around the wing. The red, white, and blue design, which includes\u00a0elements representing NASA\u2019s space and aeronautics missions<\/a>, became the official logo of the United States\u2019 new space agency in 1959.<\/p>\n

Image Credit: NASA\/Kim Shiflett<\/em><\/p>\n

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NASA\u2019s official logo, nicknamed the \u201cmeatball,\u201d turned 65 on July 15, 2024. The insignia dates back to 1959, when the\u00a0National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics\u00a0(NACA) metamorphosed into an agency that would advance both space and aeronautics: the\u00a0National Aeronautics and Space Administration.\u00a0After a NASA Lewis (now Glenn) Research Center illustrator\u2019s design was chosen for the new agency\u2019s [\u2026] Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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