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Executive Order 10849

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ESTABLISHING A SEAL FOR THE NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION

WHEREAS the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has caused to be made, and has recommended that I approve a seal for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the design of which accompanies and is hereby made a part of this order, and which is described as follows:

On a disc of the blue sky strewn with white stars, to dexter a large yellow sphere bearing a red flight symbol apex in upper sinister and wings enveloping and casting a gray-blue[1] shadow upon the sphere, all partially encircled with a horizontal white orbit, in sinister a small light-blue sphere; circumscribing the disc a white band edged gold inscribed "National Aeronautics and Space Administration U.S.A." in red letters.

AND WHEREAS it appears that such seal is of suitable design and appropriate for establishment as the official seal of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration:

NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States, I hereby approve such seal as the official seal of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Signature of Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The White House
November 27, 1959

Notes[edit]

  1. Changed to a brown shadow by Executive Order 10942 of May 19, 1961.

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States federal government (see 17 U.S.C. 105).

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