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Topic: Path to Salyut: Early Soviet space patches
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waa49
Member Posts: 205
From: Neu-Isenburg, Germany, Hessen
Registered: Sep 2015
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posted 03-17-2024 10:07 AM
   
I noticed that there were logos/emblems for the very first Russian space flights. I have compiled these missions in a brochure (pdf format): Path to the Salyut Space Stations. Since there is unfortunately little information on the logos/emblems, I have included more detailed data on the missions, space stations and spacecraft. |
Rocketman!
Member Posts: 192
From: Redmond, Washington, USA
Registered: Dec 2007
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posted 03-17-2024 11:39 AM
Wonderful compilation! |
Tom
Member Posts: 1743
From: New York
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 03-17-2024 02:56 PM
Was wondering if anyone knew where I can find a copy of the ASTP “kids” patch as seen on page 53 of the link in the first post? Thank you! |
waa49
Member Posts: 205
From: Neu-Isenburg, Germany, Hessen
Registered: Sep 2015
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posted 03-19-2024 03:48 AM
Information from Robert: I will note that the patches you have illustrated for Vostok 1 through Vostok 5 are fantasies/commemoratives issued after the missions and the patches you have for the missions that followed Vostok 6 through Soyuz 18 are also mostly fantasies.Tereshkova was the first cosmonaut — and first person — to wear a space patch (though it was under her spacesuit) and then the next Soviet crew to do so was the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project crew. |
David C
Member Posts: 1433
From: Lausanne
Registered: Apr 2012
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posted 03-19-2024 05:32 AM
Incorrect. The Voskhod 2 crew wore patches on their suits. I’m not a patch expert, but I think there may have been others. 
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kyra
Member Posts: 608
From: Louisville CO US
Registered: Aug 2003
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posted 03-19-2024 08:36 AM
The Voskhod-2, and spacewalking cosmonauts of Soyuz 4 and 5 (Khrunov and Yeliseev) and later the Soyuz-11 crew all wore the arrowhead shaped "CCCP" USSR patch. The Soyuz-11 crew also wore the a patch with the Soyuz rocket against a solar symbol. (Also with a "CCCP" USSR notation.) It mistakenly was referred later as the "Flight Engineer's patch." Soyuz-12 through 40 (minus ASTP and Interkosmos visiting crews) all wore a patch similar to the one at the bottom of page 133 minus the word Salyut on the cosmonauts upper right on their suits. It was not an embroidered patch as such, but was a sewn on rectangular printed cloth of some type. Edit: Some do have Salyut printed in yellow at the upper right of the patch, but there is no systematic patterns to which did or did not even on the solo missions. On Soyuz-27 Vladimir Dzhanibekov's suit did not have this emblem/patch. On the Soyuz-3 red patch, I would like to find documentation on whether Georgi Beregovoi intended to fly with it or not. The Soyuz 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 did not appear on the market until the late 80's. The closest were emblems made for souvenir pins made during or immediately after the mission. Some of the Vostok pin designs were later made into patches in the 2000's. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 52122
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 03-19-2024 09:59 AM
quote:
Originally posted by David C:
The Voskhod 2 crew wore patches on their suits.
I was referring to mission-specific patches, not emblems representing their country or program office. |
ddrwilli
Member Posts: 80
From: Pataskala, Ohio
Registered: Nov 2005
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posted 03-22-2024 05:05 PM
Here is an example of the arrowhead shaped CCCP patch, also known as the Zvezda 'Rocket,' from my collection. I acquired it from Alex Panchenko a little over twenty years ago.It is stitched with silver and gold metallic thread on a blue velvet background. It has a cloth backing.  |
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