posted 07-15-2017 07:12 AM            

ISS Expedition 55 mission patch

The International Space Station's (ISS) Expedition 55 begins with the scheduled undocking of Soyuz MS-06. New crew members will arrive shortly thereafter on Soyuz MS-08.

ISS Expedition 55 will be led by commander Anton Shkaplerov of Roscosmos. His crewmates, all flight engineers, include: Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev; Scott Tingle, Drew Feustel and Ricky Arnold of NASA and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Norishige Kanai.

The ISS Expedition 55 insignia was designed by artists Tim Gagnon and Jorge Cartes.

posted 10-31-2017 04:49 AM               

Update: There is a batch of these patches that are without any embedded labels on the backs of them, or on the cellophane packets they were packaged in. They were probably produced sometime in July and or August 2017.

posted 03-20-2018 01:02 PM               

• 285121 Made In USA 11/1720 (old style embedded label)
• 285121 Made In USA 12/17/20 (old style embedded label).
  
• 285121 A-B EMBLEM 12/1720 (USA)
  
• 285121 A-B EMBLEM 2/18/20 (USA)
  
• 285121 A-B EMBLEM 3/18/20 (USA)
  
• 285121 A-B EMBLEM 0318 55 (USA) From astronaut batch produced on the 'Sample machine'.
  
• Update 285121 A-B EMBLEM 03/1840 (1st production run Made In China)

• 285121 Made In USA 9/17/20
  
• 285121 Made In USA 10/1720

Update; New patch design number found on 14th May 2018.

• 283148 Made In USA 8/17/20 Possibly a prototype patch with a thicker inner yellow border.

Update; Another new patch design number found on 12th July 2018.

• 293197 A-B Emblem 4/18 20 date code (USA) with a laser cut border.

posted 08-11-2018 08:20 AM               

If you look above at the production date codes, three different runs were made during the early part of March with patch design number 285121 and A-B Emblem labels. They were;

• 0318 55 (USA) the astronaut batch made on the "Sample machine".
  
• 3/18/20 the March full production run made at Weaverville, USA.
  
• 03/1840 the first full production run made in China.

Three short production runs were made in March and early April with A-B Emblem labels.

• 3/1855 (Prototype patch)
  
• 0318 55 (Sample patch) the same date code as the astronaut batch.
  
• 4/18 20 (First short production run made at Weaverville, USA)

The latest full production run for the Expedition 55 patches has gone back to the previous patch design number and the red merrowed edge border.

• 285121 A-B Emblem + Made In China 07/1840

The top two patches are the ones from the crew batch with the original 285121 patch design number and merrowed edge border, both with 0318 55 date code from the "sample machine".

The middle two patches are the prototype and sample patches with the laser cut border, and the new patch design number 293197 with date codes 3/1855 and 0318 55.

posted 08-14-2018 02:18 AM               

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Originally posted by Kevin T. Randall:
293197 A-B Emblem 4/18 20 date code (USA) with a laser cut border.

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posted 04-14-2020 04:29 AM               

• 293197 A-B Emblem 8/18 20 (USA)

I have a feeling this was another small production run made for NASA personal, as I have not seen or had reported any of the laser cut Expedition 55 patches for sale in any numbers anywhere as yet.

Also this is the latest date code, August 2018 to be seen so far too. The previous date code was 07/1840 made in China with SKU 285121 with the thicker red stitched merrowed border. These are the Expedition 55 patches which were on sale at most NASA facilities, before the current stage three operational status shutdown.