# fp079 Soyuz T-9/Salyut-7 flag patch of Alexandrov

Soviet flag patch flown with board engineer of 149 days flight Soyuz T-9/Salyut-7 Alexander Alexandrov on his Sokol space suit.On board station Alexandrov removed patch from suit and cancelled with pentagonal stamp `Board of space station Salyut-7`.Note that original flown in this mission Sokol suit of Alexandrov no longer has flown patches. They were kept by Alexandrov for memory of flight in 1983 and only now he was agree to share them. During our meeting September 2003 (third image depicts us together) Alexander Pavlovich Alexandrov signed patch on reverse and notared `Board Salyut-7` to confirm that this exclusive was in flight with him.