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# spp089 Soyuz TMA-8 crew signed patches

Panchenko-Vinogradov Copyright ?© 2006 Soyuz TMA-8 patch is my joint design with flight commander Pavel Vinogradov.This simple and colorful design presents National flags of Russia, United States of America and Brazil.Along with crew it was decided to make flight patch personal for each crew member.Soyuz commander Pavel Vinogradov will use Red line patch. Flight engineer astronaut Jeff Williams will have Blue line patch.First Brazilian cosmonaut Marcos Pontes will have Silver line patch. Members of mission received their patches January 12, 2006 during conference at JSC, Houston. Those of you, who are interesting in proccess of patch design, can notice our simple pencil drawing (second image). This is a Copyright design.Be aware of unauthorized copies.By decision of crew Each original patch has a signature of Soyuz TMA-8 team member on reverse side, as image-4 shows (Vinogradov-center red line patch, Williams-right blue line patch, Pontes-left silver line patch).Image-2 depicts mission commander Pavel Vinogradov with his Red line border Soyuz TMA-8 patch.Image-1 depicts first Brazilian cosmonaut Marcos Pontes in Cosmonaut Training Center with Soyuz TMA-8 patch.
 # spp089            Soyuz TMA-8 crew signed patches 1
 # spp089            Soyuz TMA-8 crew signed patches 2
 # spp089            Soyuz TMA-8 crew signed patches 3
 # spp089            Soyuz TMA-8 crew signed patches 4
 # spp089            Soyuz TMA-8 crew signed patches 5

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 08 February, 2006.