Sunday 14 September 2008

Soyuz TMA-13 Patch Design Released

Soyuz TMA-13 Patch Design

The latest Soyuz patch is an unusual and fun design. It features the Soyuz crew vehicle with the Earth as a back drop. The astro/cosmonauts are featured linking hands while flying free in space signifying the international element. The design is contained with a soyuz capsule shaped patch.
The '100' signifies the fact that this is the 100th manned flight of the soyuz vehicle.Lonchakov's call sign will be Titan, as symbolized in the patch by the astronauts holding Earth, in the spirit of Atlas.
NASA Astronaut Mike Fincke and Cosmonaut (Soyuz TMA-13 commander) Yuri Lonchakov are joined by Richard Garriott the latest fare paying 'Spaceflight Participant'. Richard, a self made multimillionaire, is the son of former NASA Astronaut Owen K. Garriott.

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Mike Fincke, NASA Astronaut also flew Soyuz TMA-4/ISS Expedition 9.

Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Lonchakov also flew STS-100 and Soyuz TMA-1

Friday 5 September 2008

STS-119 Space Shuttle Mission Patch

STS-119 NASA Space Shuttle Mission Patch



STS119-S-001 (Sept. 2008) --- The shape of the STS-119/15A patch comes from the shape of a solar array viewed at an angle. The International Space Station (ISS), which is the destination of the mission, is placed accordingly in the center of the patch just below the gold astronaut symbol. The gold solar array of the ISS highlights the main cargo and task of STS-119/15A -- the installation of the S6 truss segment and deployment of S6's solar arrays, the last to be delivered to the ISS. Under the Japanese Kibo module, marked by a red circle, is the name of Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata, who goes up to the ISS to serve as flight engineer representing JAXA..

The rest of the STS-119/15A crew members are denoted on the outer band of the patch. The 17 white stars on the patch represent, in the crew's words, "the enormous sacrifice the crews of Apollo 1, Challenger, and Columbia have given to our space program."

The U.S. flag flowing into the Space Shuttle signifies the support the people of the United States have given our space program over the years, along with pride the U.S. astronauts have in representing the United States on this mission.


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