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The Homer Simpson Patch

Traditionally, U.S. space missions -- and many of the experiments sent up aboard them -- are commemorated with distinctive, representative patches. The experiments of Joseph Tash, Ph.D., physiologist at the University of Kansas Medical Center, are no exception. Except that these experiments -- set to blast off in January and May -- are the first to be identified with Homer Simpson.

How did it come about?

Tash's brother Max's wife's sister is married to Matt Groening, creator of the Simpsons. That, coupled with Tash's recollection of a Simpson's episode in which Homer feared he was infertile, led to the Homer patch. "I thought is was worth asking if Matt Groening would be interested in designing a patch for the experiment," says Tash, "and the Fox (network) people agreed to let him do it."

And now you know.

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