Astronaut’s cloaked Klingon space patch

(Before It's News)

You could say that Steve Swanson “bumped heads” with NASA’s lawyers over the design of the Expedition 40 patch. Swanson, who is commanding the International Space Station and its six-person crew, worked with his daughter to design the emblem, which originally was based off a logo for Star Trek’s bumpy-headed Klingons. Revealed here, Swanson’s “badass” design that was jettisoned before it could launch.

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