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[b]Mach 26[/b] Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett As pictured on the flight suits of astronauts Drew Feustel and Scott Altman, the Mach 26 patch was created for the STS-125 crew. The incremental increase in Mach number is due to the nature of their mission; to service the Hubble Space Telescope, Atlantis' crew flew to an altitude between 300 and 360 miles, about 100 miles above the International Space Station. As such, their reentry velocity on the way back to Earth was greater. Credit: Tazewell County Museum/Ed Emmons [b]MAXA 25[/b] Credit: collectSPACE/Ben Cooper Mike Fincke is the first to sport this patch, which replaces the space shuttle on the original with a Russian Soyuz and substitutes "MAXA" for "Mach." Fincke, who will earn his Mach 25 patch on Endeavour's STS-134 mission, has twice flown to the International Space Station on Soyuz spacecraft.
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