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New collectible buttons depict ‘For All Mankind’ mission patches

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New collectible buttons depict ‘For All Mankind’ mission patches

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With the return of “For All Mankind” quickly approaching, now is the time to “button up” for the alternate space history series’ journey to Mars.

Fortunately, Icon Heroes has exactly what you need.

As recently announced by Apple TV+, the fourth season of “For All Mankind” is set to debut on Nov. 10. Created by Ronald D. Moore, along with current showrunners Ben Nedivi and Matt Wolpert, “For All Mankind” explores how humanity’s space exploration efforts may have proceeded differently if the Soviet Union had beaten the United States to landing a man on the moon.

One of the ways the show has distinguished its timeline from our own has been the inclusion of altered or entirely new mission patches worn by the astronauts in the series. For the past three seasons, Icon Heroes, a pop culture collectibles company, has sold limited edition replicas of the “For All Mankind” embroidered emblems.

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Icon Heroes’ new “For All Mankind” pin buttons display the mission patch artwork from the alternate space history series. (Image credit: Icon Heroes)

Now, the Irvine, California-based company is offering those same alternate Apollo artworks, space shuttle symbols and Martian marks as collectible pinback buttons.

“Blast off into a world of imagination with our ‘For All Mankind’ Pin Buttons Sets!” Icon Heroes announced on its website this week. “Join the passionate fan community and proudly display your love for ‘For All Mankind’ wherever you go!”

The new tinplate buttons, which each measure 1.25 inches (3.2 centimeters) round, feature full-color reproductions of the variety of mission patches designed by the show’s artists, including graphic designer Evan Regester and graphic consultant Mike Okuda. Following the plot of the show, some of the patches include the names of real-life astronauts, while others name characters created for the series. A number of the patch designs are reminiscent of or borrow elements from the insignia created for the real NASA, including a few drawn by Okuda.

Icon Heroes earlier offered most of the designs as part of now sold-out sets of cloth patches. Several of the buttons, though, feature insignia not previously available, including two Korean designs, an emblem for the fictional Thomas Paine Space Telescope and a mission patch for the second-generation space shuttle Pathfinder featuring Sally Ride on its crew.

Each tinplate button in Icon Heroes’ “For All Mankind” series has a scratch and UV-resistant mylar coating. (Image credit: Icon Heroes)



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