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Soyuz TMA-21

The official crew patch for the Soyuz TMA-21 mission, launched on April 4, 2011. Designed by Luc van den Abeelen and Marciel Santos Kayle (12) from French Guiana. Produced by Spacepatches.nl / Emblemen.net.

The crew

The crew of Soyuz TMA-21

Designing process

Top: Marciel Santos Kayle's design; Marciel Santos Kayle meets the crew; the initial proposal by Luc van den Abeelen. Bottom: another early design and two early embroidered prototypes.

Luc first proposed a design at the end of March 2010. It was circular in shape, had a red border and already included an Earth with Yuri Gagarin's face visible in the cloud pattern, as well as a '50'. At the request of Roscosmos PR, an alternative design was made in the shape of a Vostok. Design was finalized in May 2010.

Four different prototypes were produced in August and September 2010, ahead of formal approval, to determine final colors. Patch was approved by Roscosmos on November 9, 2010 and finalized that same month. Published by Roscosmos on their website on December 27, 2010. For the first time, pins were also produced.

All designs copyright Roscosmos/Spacepatches.nl.

Back up patch / Souvenir patch

In addition to a back up patch, a souvenir patch was also produced for Roscosmos.

In action

Links

Soyuz TMA-21 at Wikipedia
Soyuz TMA-21 at Spacefacts
Soyuz TMA-21 at CollectSpace
Expedition-27 images at NASA
Expedition-27 images at Energia
Larger images at our Flickr pages.

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