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Topic: WTB: ISS EP-1 (Soyuz TM-32) patch
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cfreeze79
Member Posts: 455
From: Herndon, VA, USA
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 03-23-2016 05:13 PM
   
Looking for a ISS EP-1 patch. Paraphrased from Wikipedia: On the day after Space Shuttle Endeavour (STS-100) undocked from the ISS, the Russian spacecraft Soyuz TM-32 docked to the station, carrying two cosmonauts with previous spaceflight experience, as well as Dennis Tito, the first ever "space tourist" — although he was a fully qualified cosmonaut. This 8-day mission is sometimes referred to as ISS EP-1, ISS-2S, Soyuz 2 Taxi Flight, or simply by its launching spacecraft Soyuz TM-32. The commander of this visiting mission was Kazakh cosmonaut Talgat Musabayev, and the other crew member was Yuri Baturin. Can anyone help a fellow collector? |
cfreeze79
Member Posts: 455
From: Herndon, VA, USA
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 05-17-2016 02:10 AM
Kind of surprised to have not gotten any nibbles on this. Is there some rarity to this patch that I am unaware of? |
hoorenz
Member Posts: 1031
From: The Netherlands
Registered: Jan 2003
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posted 05-17-2016 12:16 PM
I might have a souvenir version somewhere. The original Planeta Zemlya-produced version is not that easy to find. |
Russian
Member Posts: 361
From: France
Registered: Nov 2012
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posted 05-18-2016 03:01 AM
Spacepatches produced a good replica of the patch. |
hoorenz
Member Posts: 1031
From: The Netherlands
Registered: Jan 2003
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posted 05-18-2016 04:53 AM
At the time of the taxi flights, Planeta and Spaceview worked together. Planeta would make a very small amount of patches for the crew in Russia; Spaceview would later make a larger batch for collectors. This actually already started with Mir EO-28. The reason was the uncertainty about crew makeup. Usually confirmation of who would be on the crew would come too late to have these patches produced in the West and still have enough time to deliver these to Russia ahead of the launch. So both can be considered "real," but the downside of course was that collectors did not get the exact version that was flown. This situation lasted until Soyuz TMA-3, but soon, both Planeta's and Spaceview's patches were replaced by those of Alex Panchenko. |
cfreeze79
Member Posts: 455
From: Herndon, VA, USA
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 05-18-2016 10:07 AM
Interesting notes... explains a bit of why you don't see them. But still - I would think there would be one in need of a good home. |
cfreeze79
Member Posts: 455
From: Herndon, VA, USA
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 07-22-2016 09:54 AM
Haven't given up hope on this... |
cfreeze79
Member Posts: 455
From: Herndon, VA, USA
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 03-31-2019 02:53 PM
Re-ping on an old WTB... Still searching.
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