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ASK A GREG TWO

Greg Ruth

So,  for those of you unaware, this is the second round of Q&A's collected by asking the public on social media to submit questions- any question at all related to art and artmaking as a career or a simple hobby,  I have plucked a few that seemed helpful to you here reading this. I do a lot of interviews but most of them are really specific to the project they are there to promote or…

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Back to the Moon: Designing the Artemis II Mission Patch

Gregory Manchess

June 11, 2025 - The latest mission patch for the next flight to the Moon has been released, and I’m glad to say I had the honor of designing it. Having put out the word to several previous astronaut friends that I was available to work on the next mission patch, the Artemis crew contacted me almost two years ago to start designing while they were in training for the mission. We spent months and months, between our busy schedules, examining sketches and trying to pin down just what elements should be in the design, what they wanted to express, and how it fit into their mission. The astronauts brought us all together for a handful of precious moments and for the briefest time, we were all just…human. It is entirely fun to discover you’re on a Zoom call…

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