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Topic: ISS Expedition 15 insignia
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Robert Pearlman
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posted 12-05-2006 05:53 PM
   
Four different versions of the ISS Expedition 15 insignia: 
Where's Tani? |
KSCartist
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posted 12-05-2006 06:29 PM
A very cool design. The name thing is going to be a major headache though. |
Mike Z
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posted 12-05-2006 08:02 PM
I don't know if anyone's seen the portrait of Oleg Kotov with the Expedition 15 patch. |
Robert Pearlman
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posted 12-05-2006 09:01 PM
Interesting. Here's an alternate pose: I think I like the smiling version better... |
Bill Hunt
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posted 12-06-2006 01:46 AM
I could be wrong, but that doesn't look like an actual embroidered patch he's wearing. It looks like something that came off a color printer, made just for the portrait session. |
Harald Kraenzel
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posted 12-06-2006 05:57 AM
Yes, that's not unusual. There are some more photos where astronauts/cosmonauts are wearing decals or something like that because a patch is still in the process of qualification. |
RMH
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posted 12-07-2006 07:37 PM
Will you patch collectors buy all the different name versions? I am guessing all variations will be for sale. After a few missions like this, that will get expensive. At least there is just one basic design and you could just go with a basic patch with no names. I can foresee an expedition where every new member will have a completely different design. |
Robert Pearlman
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posted 12-13-2006 03:59 PM
Today, during the Expedition 15 media briefing held at Johnson Space Center, commander Fyodor Yurchikhin described his crew's patch for collectSPACE: This was my idea and then my crew helped me design everything for this patch. For me and for us, the Expedition 15, it is not only our crew. Expedition 15 is all people who work with this program, very nice, very complex-able (sic) program. I think that one of greatest view that everybody can understand, this is our map and our orbits. We use this in Russian MCC or in American, in Houston MCC. We use like this view in orbit — like world map — we have world map in our computers or in Russian segment we have the program Sigma (its the same program). Because a very important question everybody is 'Where we are?' — yes, of course, 'Who we are?', Expedition 15 — 'where we are?' in orbit. An orbit continues and our program continues, and now our orbit is Expedition 15. You can see this in our patch, yes? Two vehicles are important. One of this is station. The second is Soyuz spacecraft or shuttle or ATV or Progress, like these vehicles here. And to that, its vehicles and MCC — you can understand that the dot is on the Houston Mission Control Center and on the Moscow Control Center. This is important. Of course, all our names. Maybe, and its official, we hope we can see everybody. Because in center we can see the pyramid, yes? The bottom of pyramid is Tani and we hope to see Tani (laughs) in our flight. Its like this. The sun, everybody understands what is the sun. The sun is very important to us. Everyday we can see the sun, we are glad that our life continues and our flight continues, our orbits continue. As Yurchikhin mentioned, the version of the emblem displayed with them today had all five crew members' names: |
Moonbase_Alphan
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posted 12-13-2006 06:46 PM
For those interested, here's a copy of the graphic shown in the previous pic from the news conference: |
LoneStarScouter
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posted 12-14-2006 01:45 AM
I think this is probably one of the nicest designs i've seen of the ISS patches. Looking forward to adding this one to my collection. |
Robert Pearlman
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posted 12-21-2006 01:43 PM
Here is the official description of the emblem: The operational teamwork between human spaceflight controllers and the on orbit crew take center-stage in the emblem of the International Space Station (ISS) Expedition 15. Against a backdrop familiar to all flight controllers, past and present, independent of any nationality, the fifteenth Expedition to the ISS is represented in Roman numeral form as part of the ground track traces emblazoned on the Mercator projection of the home planet Earth. The ISS, shown in its fully operational, assembly complete configuration, unfurls and then reunites the flags of this Russian and American crew in a show of our continuing international cooperation. Golden spheres placed strategically on the ground track near the Flight Control Centers of the United States and Russia, serve to symbolize both the joint efforts from each nation's team of flight controllers and the Shuttle and Soyuz crew vehicles in their chase orbit as they rendezvous with the ISS. A rising sun provides a classic touch to the emblem signifying the perpetual nature of manned spaceflight operations and their origin in these two space faring nations. |
keith.wilson
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From: Callander, Stirling, Scotland
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posted 12-27-2006 02:00 PM
Beautiful design - one of the best crew patches of the STS/ISS era. Personally I think the no name version looks best - the names clutter the design. |
spacy
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posted 01-11-2007 08:52 AM
Very beautiful design. I would also prefer the one with no names. |
KSCartist
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posted 01-17-2007 12:41 PM
OH COME ON! I like the design as much as the next person - and I do understand an astronaut wanting their name on their patch, but to collect this mission patch we're going to have to shell out $20-25 dollars instead of $5.Thanks Mike LA for deciding against names. |
Bill Hunt
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posted 01-17-2007 03:01 PM
My guess is there will be just one official patch from AB... and many different replica patches from non-AB suppliers on eBay. |
Robert Pearlman
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posted 01-18-2007 04:55 PM
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Originally posted by Bill Hunt:
My guess is there will be just one official patch from AB...
An update having just spoken with our account manager, who in turn consulted with the NASA point of contact at AB Emblem: As of today, only the Yurchikhin, Williams, Kotov version of the ISS 15 patch has been approved for sale* but the other four versions of the patch are expected to go into production. In other words, if AB goes forward as they are being told by NASA today, then there will be five different AB Emblem ISS 15 patches (as pictured above). * Though it appears on their website, AB does not yet have the ISS 15 YWK version in stock. It is not expected to begin shipping to resellers or customers until at earliest next week. |
Bill Hunt
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posted 01-18-2007 10:18 PM
Yikes... five patches! |
Moonbase_Alphan
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posted 01-27-2007 12:05 PM
Yikes! make that SIX versions. NASA just released another one as well. |
spacy
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posted 01-29-2007 05:12 PM
Oh my god, but which will be the official one? I mean they can't all be official... |
JGJ
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posted 04-11-2007 12:18 AM
Any word on when (if?) the "nameless" version will be put on the market by AB Emblem? Seeing I'm too cheap to buy all 6 versions, the one without names seems to be the way to go... |
Ben
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posted 04-11-2007 11:28 AM
Just to point out, Tani is almost certainly not a part of Expedition 15 now with the shuttle delays. So I guess that's one or two less versions. |
Harald Kraenzel
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posted 04-27-2007 01:46 PM
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Originally posted by spacy:
...but which will be the OFFICIAL one?
Looks like for each combination of crew members they will display the related patch. Have a look at one ISS picture dated April 17, 2007. |
MSS
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posted 06-09-2007 04:52 PM
New EVA's patches: Kotov's blue EVA-19 version and Yurchikhin's red EVA-19 version Orlan EVA patch in this photo? |
KSCartist
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posted 06-10-2007 06:55 AM
The patches on the right sleeves are variations of the mission patch but look below that on the suit and you'll see EVA patches. That design is really good. Pachenko at his best, in my opinion. |
MSS
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posted 06-11-2007 12:22 PM
Here is some variation of this patch (without such stars and shuttle on it). |
Robert Pearlman
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posted 06-18-2007 11:52 PM
Before closing the hatches between the station and shuttle today, Suni Williams replaced the ISS Expedition 15 patch hung over the entranceway to the Destiny lab with one bearing her replacement, Clay Anderson's name:  |
Mike Z
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posted 07-07-2007 01:06 PM
I was wondering what other patch collectors are doing for the new Expedition 15 patch with Anderson on it and the Tani patch if he flies on STS-120. |
Robert Pearlman
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posted 07-07-2007 09:50 PM
AB Emblem generally produces mission and expeditions patches based upon what NASA orders. Assuming that the space agency will have a need for Anderson-Expedition 15 patches, I would assume its only a matter of time before they are available. As for Tani, as Expedition 16 will start before he launches on STS-120, he will not have an Expedition 15 patch (as was first envisioned). As such, I doubt AB Emblem will produce the now outdated design(s) that included his name. |
Ben
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posted 07-10-2007 08:01 PM
AB Emblem today finally added the new patch to their listings......and a blank version. |
ShuttleDiscovery
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posted 03-13-2008 04:58 PM
It's a shame they never made an embroidered version with Williams and Anderson's name on because that would save collectors (like me) having to get both individual patches, or the one without any names at all (boring!)... |
KAPTEC
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posted 03-13-2008 08:16 PM
AB Emblem has the patch without names. |
ShuttleDiscovery
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posted 03-14-2008 01:34 PM
I know, what I meant was:Because there is no patch with both names, you either have to buy both separately OR the one with no names at all... |
Jacques van Oene
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posted 03-15-2008 05:19 AM
Williams and Anderson were never at the same time part of Expedition 15. When the shuttle arrived (STS-117) Anderson became an Expedition 15 crew member and Williams a shuttle crew member, so Expedition 15 always was three people, never four, so a patch with four names was/is not necessary... and therefore never made. |
Voyager2012
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posted 06-29-2012 10:26 PM
So how many versions of this patch are there, then five or six? Also did they ever sell all versions to the public? The only ones I have ever seen are the ones AB Emblem still have on their website the one with no names, the first crew patch and the second crew patch. So what about the others? |
Jacques van Oene
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posted 07-01-2012 12:09 PM
This version:Made by AB Emblem is available from spacepatches.nl (send me an e-mail if interested). |
Kevin T. Randall
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posted 07-01-2012 03:54 PM
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Originally posted by Voyager2012:
So how many versions of this patch are there then, five or six?
Just the four versions as shown at the top of this thread were made into patches by AB Emblem. I've not seen any others. |
Harald Kraenzel
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posted 07-04-2012 10:51 AM
If we are talking of patches made by AB Emblem than you are correct, Kevin. But Randy Hunt did make some different patches related to this mission. |
dogcrew5369
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posted 07-04-2012 11:09 AM
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Originally posted by Harald Kraenzel:
But Randy Hunt did make some different patches related to this mission.
Of course he did. |
Kevin T. Randall
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posted 07-04-2012 02:13 PM
Yes Harald, I was talking about just the 'official' ones manufactured by AB Emblem. But Randy Hunt probably did make some other combinations of crews along with ones made in Malaysia and China. |
Voyager2012
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posted 07-30-2012 05:10 PM
I noticed in a picture on the NASA galleries showing on board the ISS the Expedition 15 decal has the names of the four crew members that was left by the crew of Expedition 15. Does anyone know if that decal has ever been released to the public? All the internet space websites only has the Expedition 15 sticker with no names. |
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