The Story Behind National Reconnaissance Office's Octopus Logo (muckrock.com)

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday January 20, 2016 @03:08PM from the not-affiliated-with-hydra dept.

v3rgEz writes: When the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) announced the upcoming launch of their NROL-39 mission back in December 2013, they didn't get quite the response they hoped. That might have had something to do with the mission logo being a gigantic octopus devouring the Earth. Researcher Runa Sandvik wanted to know who approved this and why, so she filed a Freedom of Information Act with the NRO for the development materials that went into the logo. A few months later, the NRO delivered.

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I like it by jfdavis668 · 2016-01-20 15:15 · Score: 5, Funny

It's something you can really wrap your arms around.
Re:Personally, I think it's pretty badass. by Baloroth · 2016-01-20 15:40 · Score: 5, Informative

Honestly, a lot of their patches are badass. The octopus isn't even the most... interesting, that'd probably be this thing.

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