Star Wars droids adorn this year’s mission patch for the space station’s laboratory

For decades now, practically every NASA mission has had its own signature patch: a rounded emblem to symbolize the purpose of the agency’s flights into space. It’s a tradition that many others in aerospace have adopted, too, including the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS), a nonprofit that oversees the National Laboratory on the International Space Station. Each year, CASIS releases a themed mission patch for the lab, and this year’s seal showcases a few fa