Spacepatches.nl - Soyuz TMA-11M Patch

Soyuz TMA-11M

The official crew patch for the Soyuz TMA-11M mission, launched November 7, 2013. Designed by Luc van den Abeelen. Produced by Spacepatches.nl / Lucreation.net

The crew

The crew of Soyuz TMA-11M: Koichi Wakata, Michail Tyurin and Rick Mastracchio.

Designing process

An alternative Olympic variant of the final design; an Energia-issued medal and the Mai 6th logo.

The Soyuz TMA-11M patch was designed by Luc van den Abeelen. Commander Michail Tyurin indicated that (just like in his Soyuz TMA-9 patch) he wished a reference to the MAI 6th Faculty of the Moscow Aviation Institute that he graduated from. Luc combined the Mai 6th logo with elements from a 1994 RSC Energia-issued medal.

Since this flight would carry the Olympic torch for the Sochi 2014 Winter Games to space, several Olympic versions were proposed. The final design was approved by the crew on June 3, 2013; by Roscosmos and TsPK on June 19, 2013. It was revealed by Spacepatches.nl on July 27, 2013.

All designs copyright Roscosmos/Spacepatches.nl.

Back up patch

In action

Other versions

Produced in Russia by Tsenki.

Links

Soyuz TMA-11M at Wikipedia
Soyuz TMA-11M at Spacefacts
Soyuz TMA-11M on CollectSpace
Expedition-38 images at NASA
Expedition-38 images at Energia
Larger images at our Flickr pages.

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