Space.com #Booster or Broomstick: Gemini 12 and the ‘Halloween patch’ That Almost Was 31 October 2016 fborgosano Leave a comment Share: Fifty years ago, two astronauts conceived a Halloween “treat”: a mission patch depicting their flight to space, not atop a rocket, but on broomsticks. The proposed Gemini 12 patch might have been, were it not for a “trick” with their launch date. from Space.com ift.tt/2erm7eX Share: