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Topic: ISS Expedition 60 insignia
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Moonbase Alphan
Member Posts: 127
From: Space City, Texas
Registered: Dec 2006
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posted 12-19-2017 06:30 PM
  
ISS Expedition 60 mission patch |
Tom
Member Posts: 1627
From: New York
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 12-19-2017 06:38 PM
Nice!! No names? |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 46486
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 12-19-2017 06:59 PM
Officially, space station partners have only announced crew members through Expedition 59 to date. (There are crew assignments for Expedition 60 online, but they are subject to change.)As an aside, Expedition 60 is expected to overlap the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 in July 2019, hence the inclusion of the eagle. I wonder though, what happens if commercial crew and Soyuz schedules slip the expedition? I suppose all of 2019 can be considered the anniversary year... |
dcfowler1
Member Posts: 109
From: Eugene, OR
Registered: May 2006
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posted 12-19-2017 10:04 PM
It is also currently scheduled to host two Soyuz crews and both USCV-1 and USCV-2. Commercial crew delays are probable, so there is likely to be a lot of turbulence in this crew. |
pargoo
Member Posts: 67
From: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Registered: May 2005
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posted 12-19-2017 10:23 PM
This is the final approved art? Could do with a bit of colour, as well as names. |
dcfowler1
Member Posts: 109
From: Eugene, OR
Registered: May 2006
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posted 12-19-2017 11:07 PM
The above-mentioned turbulence is likely one reason why there are no names. Another reason: If the two USCV launches happen as scheduled (unlikely, I know), there could be as many as 14 astronauts in various stages of this expedition. |
thisismills
Member Posts: 430
From: Michigan
Registered: Mar 2012
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posted 12-20-2017 09:36 AM
A handful of the earlier ISS crew patches were without astronaut names, my personal favorite being Expedition 23. After seeing this Expedition 60 artwork, I'm actually hoping that may be the trend will come back, even if only for a couple of missions here and there. This art is beautiful and speaks to me with limited used of color and bold design elements. Secretly hoping that there ends up being too many astronauts to make adding names impractical... but maybe that's just me. |
KSCartist
Member Posts: 2982
From: Titusville, FL
Registered: Feb 2005
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posted 12-20-2017 04:23 PM
I like this simplicity of the design and understand the rationale behind no names. But I would have used the Constellation "Aquila" to represent Eagle landing on the moon or ghost stitched the Eagle from the 11 patch. This has too many stars. Do we know who the artists are? |
lucspace
Member Posts: 451
From: Hilversum, The Netherlands
Registered: Oct 2003
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posted 08-21-2018 04:01 PM
It seems AB Emblem is introducing the hybrid print/embroidery type for official NASA patches.  |
Moonbase Alphan
Member Posts: 127
From: Space City, Texas
Registered: Dec 2006
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posted 08-22-2018 05:15 PM
The Land's End simplified embroidery, showing modified elements of the patch: |
justin13
Member Posts: 53
From: Richmond, VA, U.S.A.
Registered: Aug 2005
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posted 09-14-2018 05:40 PM
I just received one of the patches from Joe at Skyforce — in addition to being a print/embroidery hybrid (not thrilled with that) there's no AB production label on the back of the patch. |
Kevin T. Randall
Member Posts: 1312
From: Chesham, Bucks UK
Registered: Dec 2008
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posted 10-06-2018 07:35 AM
The AB Emblem Expedition 60 patch has the patch design number 290700. But none of these ISS-60 hybrid patches has been seen with an embedded label on them, or on the cellophane packet they come in (yet).Update on 17th October; Two cellophane packets with stickers on them have been found. They read; 290700 "Made In USA" 7/18 20. (None of the patches within them had embedded labels on). |
Harald Kraenzel
Member Posts: 312
From: Dinslaken,Germany
Registered: Nov 2005
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posted 10-22-2018 01:33 PM
From AB Emblem I learned: This process is known as a photo combo emblem, which is a blend of both a photo process and the standard embroidery method. ... The reason this design was made in the photo combo method is due to the constellation detail in the background, this could have never been achieved using traditional embroidery. |
Kevin T. Randall
Member Posts: 1312
From: Chesham, Bucks UK
Registered: Dec 2008
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posted 11-30-2018 12:15 PM
The first of these Expedition 60 patches with embedded labels on the backs have been seen with the following details:
- 290700 A-B Emblem Made In China 10/1840
- 290700 A-B Emblem Made In China 12/1840
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Liembo
Member Posts: 723
From: Bothell, WA
Registered: Jan 2013
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posted 01-26-2019 07:08 PM
Recently, A-B Emblem has been selling an ISS-60 version on their "lost and found" page that states, "The blue thread used in the number 60 is the wrong shade of blue." I received one and in a side by side scan with an example I received from Skyforce Patches in September 2018, the patch is virtually identical. I am not sure if the color they are comparing to is not yet released or what, but I can't see any difference at all. Though this scan shows a slight difference in the background, that, too, is indistinguishable to the eye in natural and artificial light. So either Skyforce received their allocation from the same run or the correct color hasn't been made available yet?  |
Kevin T. Randall
Member Posts: 1312
From: Chesham, Bucks UK
Registered: Dec 2008
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posted 01-27-2019 03:55 AM
All the versions of the Expedition 60 patches I have all have the same colour, what I would call "navy blue" 60's infills. That includes patches manufactured in Weaverville with packet stickers "290700 Made In USA 7/18 20" and those manufactured in China with date codes 10/1840 and 12/1840.Again it is a great pity a large number of the first production runs of these Expedition 60 patches don't have any embedded labels on them, or have cellophane packet stickers. I do have some of the "error lighter colour blue" patches coming in from AB Emblem. Update: The wrong lighter blue colour error patches are now all sold out at AB Emblem. I received mine and they are quite noticeable against the black of the space behind. I didn't buy any from Skyforce so can't do a side by side comparison with one of his patches. |
skyguard23
Member Posts: 48
From: Central Switzerland
Registered: Dec 2016
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posted 02-03-2019 03:26 PM
I definitely see a difference in the blue thread that was used in the mission number: The upper patch is the "regular" version I received from Joe in October 2018. The lower patch is the error patch directly from AB.  |
thisismills
Member Posts: 430
From: Michigan
Registered: Mar 2012
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posted 03-13-2019 02:48 PM
Stumbled across this page today on the AB Emblems website, which seems to confirm the wrong shade of blue was used. Expedition 60 (Mfg. Error)
Design № 290700B
Expedition 60 Manufacturing ErrorThe blue thread used in the number 60 is the wrong shade of blue. |
Kevin T. Randall
Member Posts: 1312
From: Chesham, Bucks UK
Registered: Dec 2008
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posted 04-01-2019 10:38 AM
Today AB Emblem finally listed the ISS Expedition 60 290700 A-B Emblem 4/19 20 (made in USA) patches, with a slightly lighter blue background, a slightly darker yellow colour and a bright white plastic backing.on their website.Updated on 10th and 21st July 2019. The three new date codes are as follows;
- 290700 A-B Emblem 03/19 20 (USA) (Have this date code from Baikonur Russia) Two of four patches with labels on top of plastic coating.
- 290700 A-B Emblem 04/19 20 (USA) (Have this date code from Baikonur Russia)
- 290700 A-B Emblem 4/19 20 (USA) (Have this date code from AB Emblem)
All three of these patches are generally lighter in colour than previous production runs from USA and China. They all have a white backing.Update 26th September. Another date code has been reported but not confirmed as yet. This date code embedded label has also been found on some of the Expedition 61 patches, "Double Labelling" Error.
- 290700 A-B Emblem 6/19 20 (Still not confirmed on 24-05-20)
Update on 02-11-20. Another date code has been found and photographed.- 290700 A-B Emblem Made In China 09/19 40 (darker backing)
Update on 23-05-20 and 28-09-20 another two date codes found.
- 290700 A-B Emblem Made In China 02/20 40
- 290700 A-B Emblem Made In China 03/20 40 [JSC cards]
- 290700, A-B Emblem 04/19 20 (USA) (year d/c error, should read 04/20 20)
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Liembo
Member Posts: 723
From: Bothell, WA
Registered: Jan 2013
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posted 04-01-2019 11:01 AM
Just a note on the photo of the patches above, the "PF 3103" appears to stand for the thread color code they apparently used. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 46486
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 10-01-2019 12:26 PM
From Expedition 60 flight engineer Luca Parmitano: ...wearing the t-shirts of our "space band": "Kryk Chayky" – 'The Cry of the Seagull."  |
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