Amanda Wegener

Biographic Sketch:

Amanda Wegener is a visual design student at Purdue University also studying history. She analyzed design drafts for NASA space patches in the Virginia Kelly Karnes Archives and Special Collections at Purdue, particularly focusing on Neil Armstrong’s and Eugene Cernan’s collections. In this article she applies her knowledge of the art and design world to that of research and spaceflight.

• Art from the Inside: NASA Mission Insignia and Patches from Mercury to Apollo (2016)