Editing Apollo 14 (section)

== Mission insignia ==
[[File:Apollo 14 Flown Silver Robbins Medallion (SN-192).jpg|thumb|250px|left|Apollo 14 space-flown silver [[NASA space-flown Gemini and Apollo medallions|Robbins medallion]]]]

The mission insignia is an oval depicting the Earth and the Moon, and an astronaut pin drawn with a comet trail.{{sfn|Lattimer|1985|p=81}} The pin is leaving Earth and is approaching the Moon.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://images.nasa.gov/details-S70-17851|title=Apollo 14 Emblem|publisher=[[NASA]]|access-date=November 23, 2019}}</ref> A gold band around the edge includes the mission and astronaut names. The designer was Jean Beaulieu,{{sfn|Lattimer|1985|p=81}} who based it on a sketch by Shepard, who had been head of the Astronaut Office and meant the pin to symbolize that through him, the entire corps was in spirit flying to the Moon.{{sfn|Chaikin 1995|p=350}}

The backup crew spoofed the patch with its own version, with revised artwork showing a [[Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner|Wile E. Coyote]] cartoon character depicted as gray-bearded (for Shepard, who was 47 at the time of the mission and the oldest man on the Moon), pot-bellied (for Mitchell, who had a pudgy appearance) and red-furred (for Roosa's red hair), still on the way to the Moon, while [[Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner|Road Runner]] (for the backup crew) is already on the Moon, holding a U.S. flag and a flag labelled "1st Team".<ref name = "beep beep">{{cite web |url=http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a14/a14beep-beep.html |title=Back-up-Crew Patch |year=2005 |editor1-last=Lotzmann |editor1-first=Ulrich |editor2-last=Jones |editor2-first=Eric M. |work=Apollo 14 Lunar Surface Journal |publisher=[[NASA]] |access-date=August 16, 2020}} Image of backup crew patch.</ref> The flight name is replaced by "BEEP BEEP" and the backup crew's names are given. Several of these patches were hidden by the backup crew and found during the flight by the crew in notebooks and storage lockers in both the CSM ''Kitty Hawk'' and the LM ''Antares'', and one patch was stored in the MET lunar [[handcart]].<ref name = "down the ladder">{{cite web |url=http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a14/a14-prelim1.html |title=Down the Ladder for EVA-1 |year=1995 |editor-last=Jones |editor-first=Eric M. |work=Apollo 14 Lunar Surface Journal |publisher=[[NASA]] |access-date=July 17, 2013}}</ref> One patch, attached to Shepard's PLSS, was worn on the lunar surface, and, mounted on a plaque, was presented by him to Cernan after the mission.<ref name = "beep beep" />
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