posted 12-21-2016 02:59 PM               

Competition results for the Soyuz MS-05 crew patch

At the end of October 2016, the crew of Soyuz MS-05 announced a competition to create designs for its mission emblem.

By almost a month later, Roscosmos had received more than 700 submissions. The choices were so many that the crew's commander, Sergey Ryazansky (Roscosmos), and flight engineers Randy Bresnik (NASA) and Paolo Nespoli (ESA) decided to postpone the date of the end fo the contest so they could review each design and determine a winner.

On Wednesday (Dec. 21), the crew announced the winner! The design by Тимофеева Анастасия Сергеевна (Yekaterinburg) will be used as the basis for the official Soyuz MS-05 patch. In addition, the crew noted the works of Суслова Мария Андреевна (Kaliningrad), Измайлов Марата Тахировича (Moscow), Ушаковой Виктории Вадимовны (St. Petersburg) and Субботин Андрей Иванович (Sovetskaya Gavan).

posted 01-13-2017 02:40 PM               

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Originally posted by Russian:
But was this design already approved by Roscosmos?

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The Soyuz MS-05 crew patch features a nose-on view of the spacecraft, as it prepares to dock with the International Space station, with the Roscosmos logo just above it.

In a protruding circle, the Greek god of the northern wind Boreas is shown, as this name is the call sign for the spaceship's crew. In the foreground, the navigational device of the docking cross is shown, as seen by the crew during the link-up with the orbital facility.

The constellation of Scorpion is shown in the background, as a reference to the spaceship commander's star sign. Three stars in the background symbolize the crew members, whose names are shown in the border, with the corresponding national flags next to them.

Designed by Anastasia Timofeyeva, finalized by Luc van den Abeelen. Copyright Roscosmos/spacepatches.nl

posted 07-21-2017 08:20 AM               

The official Soyuz MS-05 crew patch.