The mission patches I attached to our flight software station monitors are visible here. On the left, the bookends of Apollo human expeditions to the lunar surface: Apollo 11 (1969) and 17 (1972). On the right, the future of human lunar exploration: Orion and Constellation, which comprises Orion and associated launch vehicles Ares I and Ares V.
The Apollo 17 patch is also in honor of Dr. Harrison Schmitt's (Apollo 17 geologist, and later US senator from New Mexico) visit to LRO's Mission Operations Center on June 3. Here's a photo of Schmitt with the LRO Mission Operations Team (MOT), the project manager, and others. (I'm not in the photo.)
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