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Soyuz TMA-22

The official crew patch for the Soyuz TMA-22 mission, launched on November 22, 2011. Designed by cosmonaut Mark Serov, 5-year old Maxim Baikalov and Erik van der Hoorn. produced by Spacepatches.nl / Emblemen.net.

The crew

The crew of Soyuz TMA-22: Dan Burbank, Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin.

Designing process

Top: an earlier design by Mark Serov with the VSK-4 periscope sight as the central theme; the design Serov made for TMA-22 and a first version by Erik. Bottom: the outer filter for the the VSK-4 sight and the painting by Maxim Baikalov.

In December, 2010, Anton Shkaplerov came forward with a design by fellow cosmonaut Mark Serov. Central element in the patch is the VSK-4 sight as used aboard the Soyuz spacecraft.

The Earth, as seen in the artwork of Maxim Baikalov, was added in early January 2011. The final artwork was composed by Erik van der Hoorn, who also proposed to use a purple border as a reference to the children's drawing.

The design was approved by Roscosmos head Anatoly Perminov on February 8, 2011. Prototypes were ready on February 28, 2011. Production of patches started April 5, 2011 and was completed a week later. The artwork was published by Roscosmos on May 22, 2011.

All designs copyright Roscosmos/Spacepatches.nl.

Back up patch

The backup patch.

In action

Other versions

Produced in Russia by Tsenki.

Links

Soyuz TMA-22 at Wikipedia
Soyuz TMA-22 at Spacefacts
Soyuz TMA-22 at CollectSpace
Expedition-29 images at NASA
Expedition-29 images at Energia
Larger images at our Flickr pages.

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