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The crew
Designing process
Produced in Russia by Tsenki.
The crew of Soyuz TMA-13M: Alexander Gerst, Maxim Suraev and Reid Wiseman.
The Soyuz rocket on display at the Samara Space Center; the Fisherman statue at Baikonur and the patch as adopted by Max Suraev when he was still commander of Soyuz TMA-09M.
The patch design for Soyuz TMA-13M, made by Luc van den Abeelen, was originally proposed to Soyuz TMA-05M commander Yuri Malenchenko in February 2011. The design included the so called 'Fisherman' statue at Baikonur (the cosmonaut is spreading his arms, as if to say how big the fish was that he caught) and a Soyuz rocket on display in the Russian town Samara (where Soyuz rockets are being manufactured by TsSKB-Progress). Malenchenko, however, indicated that he prefered a simplier crew logo.
The design was also shown to Max Suraev – at that time the commander for Soyuz TMA-09M, with Karin Nyberg and Luca Parmitano - who liked it and adopted it. In December 2012, Suraev was replaced as Soyuz TMA-09M commander by Fyodor Yurchikhin, who came up with his own patch for that flight. Ultimately, Suraev would end up as commander of Soyuz TMA-13M, Yurchikhin’s old flight. He kept the Fisherman design. There were some minor changes – including the inclusion of the Cepheus call sign and constellation and the placement of the Roscosmos logo over the rocket.
The final logo was approved by the crew on June 19, 2013; Roscosmos and GCTC approved it on September 11, 2013. There was one final, small change in January 2014, when the design team decided to add the initials “MZ” over the Earth to commemorate American friend and Soyuz patch collector Mike Zolotorow, who had died on December 10, 2013.
The 'MZ' in the Soyuz TMA-13M patch; Mike Zolotorow with his wive Phyllis and son Craig.
All designs copyright Roscosmos/Spacepatches.nl.
Back up patch
The crew and their patch
Other versions
Links
Soyuz TMA-13M at Wikipedia
Soyuz TMA-13M at Spacefacts
Soyuz TMA-13M on CollectSpace
Expedition-40 images at NASA
Expedition-40 images at Energia
Larger images at our Flickr pages.