The Soyuz TMA-01M mission patch represents the first flight of the new "
digital" Soyuz TMA-M class spacecraft and the TMA-01M crew, commander Alexander Kaleri and flight engineers Scott Kelly and Oleg Skripochka.
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Kaleri described his crew's patch to collectSPACE in July:
[i]It is a hexagon with flags and families [names]: two flags -- American and Russian -- and three families. Inside there is a silhouette of the Soyuz composed from digits, zeros and ones, above the planet flying through the Sun and some stars.
And there is an outline of a crane as the backdrop of the Soyuz. The Soyuz is represented digitally out of zeros and ones with the crane.[/i]
Soyuz TMA-01M is scheduled to launch October 7, 2010 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome to bring Kaleri, Kelly and Skripochka to join the International Space Station's Expedition 25 crew.
[b]UPDATE[/b]: Roscosmos formally debuted the TMA-01M mission patch on Sept. 10. The announcement included the artwork by 12-year-old Alexander Turovsky of Michurinsk, Russia, which contributed to the emblem's design.