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The crew
Designing process
All designs copyright Roscosmos/Spacepatches.nl.
Left: Version produced in Russia by Tsenki. Right: patch directly sewn onto white fabric, flown abaord ISS.
The crew of Soyuz TMA-09M: Karen Nyberg, Feodor Yurchikhin and Luca Parmitano.
When Yurchikhin took command of Soyuz TMA-09M in December 2012, Luc made a design based on an earlier Soyuz TMA-06M proposal. Dima Shcherbinin finalized the artwork, adding the rim of the Soyuz optical sight.
Soyuz TMA-09M was originally to be commanded by Maxim Suraev. In March 2011, Suraev chose a patch design by Luc van den Abeelen that had been rejected by TMA-05M commander Yuri Malenchenko. When Suraev was replaced on the Soyuz TMA-09M crew by Fyodor Yurchikhin in December 2011, Suraev took that design with him to his new Soyuz TMA-13M flight.
In January 2012, Luc proposed to Yurchikhin another 'recycled' design: one that had originally been devised for the Soyuz TMA-06M crew. Luc had already changed the colors to that of his TMA-10 and TMA-19 patches and had added the rim of the VSK-4 (Vizir Spetsialniy Kosmicheskiy-4) periscope view, making it look even more like the two earlier patches.
About a year later, in December 2012, Yurchikhin finalized the design with the help of his personal artist Dima Shcherbinin. Dima redesigned the Soyuz spacecraft and took the ISS, originally drawn by Erik van der Hoorn, from the Expedition-37 patch. Four 'orbits' were also added to symbolize the four orbits it would take to reach the station.
Back up patch
In action
Other versions
Links
Soyuz TMA-09M at Wikipedia
Soyuz TMA-09M at Spacefacts
Soyuz TMA-09M on CollectSpace
Expedition-36 images at NASA
Expedition-36 images at Energia
Larger images at our Flickr pages.