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posted February 03, 2005 04:26 PM               

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Thanks to Maciej Stolowski, who captured the above image from today's NASA TV broadcast of the ISS Expedition 11 crew briefings.

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posted February 03, 2005 07:14 PM               

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I like it. The banner trails seem a little odd, but I like the scheme and the colors. The border is even reminiscent of another "11" mission patch.

--John

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posted February 04, 2005 10:57 AM               

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Here is the artwork, received from a reader.

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posted February 04, 2005 02:19 PM              

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Well, i guess i'll be investing another 4.99 for this one...not a bad patch

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posted February 04, 2005 02:32 PM               

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I like it as well.
ditto HouseDadX4 another 4.99..
Ian

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posted February 04, 2005 04:15 PM               

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Great looking patch.
Anyone know what the 15 stars signify?
Thanks.

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posted February 09, 2005 03:50 PM               

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The official description:

The emblem of the eleventh expedition to the International Space Station (ISS) emphasizes the roles of the United States and the Russian Federation in the multinational ISS partnership. The two rocket plumes, in the style of the flags of these two nations, represent the Russian Soyuz vehicles and the American Space Shuttles. The ISS image shows the configuration of the orbiting Station at the start of the expedition, with docked Soyuz and Progress vehicles and the huge American solar panels. The names of the two crew members are shown on the margin of the patch. ISS Commander Sergei Krikalev and John Phillips, NASA ISS science officer and flight engineer, are expected to launch on a Soyuz vehicle and to be in orbit during the return to flight of the Space Shuttle. The crew explains, "The beauty of our home planet and the vivid contrasts of the space environment are shown by the blue and green Earth with the Space Station orbiting overhead, and by the bright stars, dark sky, and dazzling sun."

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posted February 09, 2005 04:38 PM            

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This crew wanted to keep the design as simple as possible so they decided that the stars would just be for aesthetic purposes and 15 are there because it looks right. No particular meaning intended.

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Jacques
www.spacepatches.info

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posted February 11, 2005 04:01 PM            

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The complete story of the design of the exp-11 patch is now on our site...

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Jacques
www.spacepatches.info

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posted February 28, 2005 07:51 PM               

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Thank you to all those who said they liked the patch. I had the great pleasure and distinct honor of working with John Phillips to design it. If all goes well with RTF look for a new three person version with either Sergei Volkov or Thomas Reiter added. If thet happens the Sun will disappear, replaced by Phillips name and the third crewmember will go where Phillips was. It'll be the first mission to have two patches.

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posted February 28, 2005 08:57 PM               

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Great job, Tim.
Enjoyed very much reading the story of your various patch designs.
One mission - 2 patches...another first!
Regards,
Tom

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posted February 28, 2005 11:10 PM              

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A replica of this patch is now available at Spaceworld in cocoa beach for $4.99. Shipping is free. Here's the link.
http://spaceworld.safeshopper.com/

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posted March 01, 2005 12:29 AM               

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Originally posted by KSCartist:
It'll be the first mission to have two patches.

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I'm confused, because there were a few Shuttle missions where they had approved designs and had to change them because of additions to the crew. If we ignore the ones where they added just an apron to the bottom, there's at least Mission 51E to 51D, STS-42, STS-88, STS-101, STS-113, STS-114, Expedition 6, Expedition 7 and (if Polansky's assignment holds) STS-116 and STS-117.

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posted March 01, 2005 01:35 AM               

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I think this will be the first one that is in-flight that would have a patch change.

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posted March 01, 2005 01:39 PM               

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Hart,
You are correct in the changes to those shuttle missions and crews. But what I meant was that this would be the first mission to have an addition during flight and therefore have two "official patches". Thanks,
Tim

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posted March 14, 2005 01:11 AM               

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More about this patch can be read under Patches & Pins: Expedition 11

Congratulations Tim on the launch of your design!

[This message has been edited by Robert Pearlman (edited April 14, 2005).]

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posted April 14, 2005 09:29 PM               

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The odd trail representing the Russian crew member is in the shape of a six for Krikalev who is now the first Russian to fly in space six times.

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posted April 15, 2005 08:07 AM               

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Actually the trail that is represented by the Russian flag is a styalized version of the lower case letter "alpha" from the greek alphabet. This was done beacause Sergei was on the mission that named the ISS Alpha.

But I'll let John know of your thoughts-Sergei might enjoy that.

Tim

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posted April 15, 2005 01:21 PM               

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Great congratulations to you indeed, Tom, that your work is in space!

The patch was shown at Griffin's initial talk yesterday. So your patch also goes with the inauguration of a new office, which will see RTF and the commencing of the new vision!

[This message has been edited by capejeffs (edited April 15, 2005).]

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posted April 15, 2005 01:55 PM               

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Also was going to ask about this patch, if its for all NASA or where its used, etc. Kind of reminiscent of the great Moon & Mars patch of the new astronaut group.
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/images/content/103409main_explorationlogo_lrg.jpg

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posted April 15, 2005 02:03 PM               

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Bill, there is an existing discussion of that patch. Please post comments there.

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posted April 16, 2005 08:35 AM               

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Not only in established use, but available even on a polo at buySPACE / Countdown Creations. So now I'm just wondering what this NASA Office Of Exploration handles, sounds like a cool department. Okay, Robert, that discussion was before I became a member, I'll try & watch more carefully in the future!

If KSCArtist is around, hope you can drop me a line ( esp. about that glorious tv series, The Cape! ). Have a good day

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posted April 16, 2005 08:54 AM               

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Hey Capejeffs-
Fantastic dawn launch huh? What a way for John to celebrate a birthday!

As far as the Cape-I'm going to hook up with a guy in Orlando in May who can copy onto DVD from VHS. Further news after RTF.

Tim

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posted April 16, 2005 10:30 AM               

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...is it for sure that a eventually third crewmember after RTF goes well will be part of expedition 11 ??? i did read in the expedition´s press kid that the flight engineer 2 will stay much longer as the originally two crewmembers krikalev and phillips ?
so isn´t it more likely that it could be a mission with total separte designation and an own patch ???

thx michael

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posted April 16, 2005 09:34 PM               

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Yes, Thomas Reiter will launch on STS-121 in July and become the third member of Expedition 11. And it appears he will remain on board longer than Krikalev and Phillips.

Sounds like the '2 and 1' crew situations from Mir!

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posted April 17, 2005 02:01 AM               

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thank u be ben

that confirms what i´ve heard earlier...

but in the news media here they called it a possitility yet...but now it seems to became reality

so we will curious what sts-121 patch will appear

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posted April 17, 2005 11:10 AM               

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From what I've heard to confirm earlier posts - the plan is for Thomas reiter to join Expedition 11 in July (if all goes well with RTF). There is a strong possibility he would stay on to serve with Expedition 12 for a month or more. So the new "norm" would be for the ESA astronaut to overlap expeditions. (This ought to drive AB Emblem crazy)

Tim

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posted April 17, 2005 04:16 PM               

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tim

and i will be curious how a crazy driven AB emblem will look like ;-)

already some ideas tim ???

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posted April 19, 2005 06:31 PM            

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Really nice one!.
NASA's designers are GOOD.

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