Logos, so many logos

Inspired by this Tweet showing the doors at the NASA Johnson Space Center control rooms in Houston, USA, we wanted to collect the plethora of logos around the Artemis I mission.

We will start with the European Service Module logos as that is after all the focus of this blog. First we have the programme overview, highlighting the European Service Module and Orion’s destination the Moon, while hinting at the next step, Mars.

Each individual European Service Module for the Artemis missions get their own logo too. These are for the teams and logically look similar to the programme logo. We have only made the first three so far, but with the structures for the service modules for Artemis IV and even Artemis V getting ready for shipment the next batch will follow soon.

If you watched the video above or have followed the European Service Module development for a while you will have noticed the logos have changed. ESA updates its corporate design and the originals no longer fit in the family. The ones below have been replaced by the ones above. The “fm” stands for “flight model” to differentiate from the test models:

Inside the Orion crew capsule we two European passengers that also have a logo, Shaun the Sheep and Helga and Zohar, note the same ESA corporate design elements in the Shaun patch:

On Earth the European Service Module is monitored by the Mission Evaluation Team that have this nice logo to put on their t-shirts and mission control rooms. We don’t know who at NASA made the design but we love it, although we like to believe some of the elements were inspired by the original European Service Module logos and this poster. The symbols on the right are morse code for “Ad lunam et ultra” which is Latin for “To the Moon and beyond”.

From here we can zoom out a bit and feature the original Orion programme logo

Then we have the Artemis I misison logo which was originally called Exploration Mission-1 and came out in 2018. It features the mega Moon rocket SLS prominently.

Zooming out even more we have the Artemis logo that encompasses the whole programme including Gateway.

And of course, lastly the space agencies themselves, the NASA and ESA logos feature on the Orion spacecraft and rocket fairing. Interestingly NASA even has both types of its logo, the “meatball” and the “worm” flying on Artemis I.