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Topic: 'Days In Space' NASA astronaut patches
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lewarren
Member Posts: 269
From: Houston, TX, USA
Registered: Aug 2001
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posted 03-05-2004 09:17 PM
   
I saw a new patch on Andy Thomas' blue flight suit in a picture posted on the Kennedy Space Center website. The patch is similar in style to the Mach 25 patch, but has the number 100 in large text (like the 25), with a space station crossing the number (like the shuttle), and "Days" in smaller text (like "Mach"). Neato! This must have been made for the small (but growing) number of astronauts who have been in space for 100+ days. |
Jay Chladek
Member Posts: 2272
From: Bellevue, NE, USA
Registered: Aug 2007
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posted 06-20-2008 11:58 PM
A fair portion of the recent ISS astronaut contingent has gotten them. Sunita Williams, Clay Anderson, Dan Tani and Peggy Whitson all have them (as well as Ken Bowersox and Don Pettit I believe along with others).In Tani's case, I think somebody added it to his flight suit while he was still in orbit as I can recall the first images I saw of him wearing a blue flight suit when he got back had the patch on it (less then 24 hours after he returned home). Of course his flight wasn't originally supposed to last that long and it also is a hard earned badge considering his mom died while he was still in orbit. |
Tom
Member Posts: 1747
From: New York
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 06-25-2008 05:20 PM
Any chance that they'll produce a "200 Day" patch for guys like Michael Lopez-Alegria and possibly Greg Chamitoff? |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 52304
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 07-12-2008 08:23 PM
I don't know about a '200 Days' patch, but Mark Kelly presented Garrett Reisman an "Almost 100 Days" patch at the STS-124 and Expedition 17 presentation held this past Thursday in Houston.
Reisman logged 95 days and 9 hours during his first mission. On closer inspection, the patch was the same but with a card attached above it that read "Almost".  |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 52304
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 03-03-2015 10:34 AM
Terry Virts, Anton Shkaplerov and Samantha Cristoforetti marked their 100 days in space on Tuesday (March 3) posing with the patches aboard the International Space Station: 
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Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 52304
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 11-01-2015 05:26 PM
Expedition 45 flight engineers Kjell Lindgren and Kimiya Yui marked 100 days in space on Saturday (Oct. 31): |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 52304
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 11-08-2021 08:57 AM
quote:
Originally posted by Tom:
Any chance that they'll produce a "200 Day" patch...
From Expedition 66 flight engineer Megan McArthur (via Twitter): |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 52304
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 04-25-2024 04:31 PM
Suni Williams was seen wearing a 300 Days patch when she arrived at Kennedy Space Center today for her launch on Boeing's Starliner Crew Flight Test. To date she has logged more than 321 days on her prior two missions.  Other than the One Year on ISS patch, I believe 300 Days is currently the highest number "days" patch being worn. |
CollectingPatches
Member Posts: 12
From: Ohio, United States
Registered: Oct 2023
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posted 05-01-2024 08:13 AM
Anton Shkaplerov has a "500 Days" patch. I don't remember where I saw it but I think it was on his flight suit before the Soyuz MS-19 mission.There was also a thread in the Buy, Sell, Trade subforum a while back here on collectSPACE where the seller was selling one of these "500 Days" patches. I think they're made by someone in the TSPK. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 52304
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 05-01-2024 10:12 AM
Thanks! Here is a photo Anton Shkaplerov with his 500 Days patch.It does appear to use a different font from the others.  |
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