Johnson Socks
Description: Dallas football. The Dallas Cowboys are a professional American football team based in Dallas, Texas. Founded in 1960, the Cowboys have a storied history and are one of the most valuable sports franchises in the world. The team has won five Super Bowl championships and has fielded many of the greatest players in NFL history, including Emmitt Smith, Troy Aikman, and Roger Staubach. The Cowboys play their home games at AT&T Stadium, which is widely regarded as one of the best sports venues in the world.
Description: A "mission patch" for the "WEST AREA COMPUTING UNIT", celebrating the women of colour working as computers (the original, human kind) calculating orbits for the engineers at NASA's predecessor NACA in the 40's and 50's. They were portrayed in the book and film Hidden Figures. The smoke from the rocket is made up of actual equations from one of computer Katherine Johnson's technical reports. The rocket is the Atlas LV-3B carrying the Mercury capsule Friendship 7 with John Glenn in 1962.
