The first variant of the patch of the Russian-American-Brazilian crew of the Soyuz TMA-8 spaceship.
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- The patch of the Russian-French crew on the Cassiopée program, 1996–1997. On this mission, astronaut Claudie André-Deshays became the first French woman in space.
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- This patch is a variant used by the Soviet-Czechoslovakian crew, in 1978 for Soyuz-28.
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- The personal badge of cosmonaut Gennadi Manakov, used in 1996.
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- Patch for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, the first joint flight between the Soviets and the U.S.
See also
- The creepy, kitschy and geeky patches of US spy satellite launches — “If anything, it’s an internal gag. Like, how far can you take it without being reprimanded? Or maybe the patches represent jokes that cropped up in the processing of the satellites, which we’ll never know unless they’re declassified—and maybe not even then.”
- The story behind the NRO’s sinister octopus logo — “It’s really neat to me. It’s kind of saying the enemy has nowhere to run.”
- What does the red swoosh in NASA’s ‘meatball’ logo mean? — The distinctive red shape wasn’t just a designerly flourish.
- Trippy retro DEA patches — DEA and other federal agencies created their own patches to identify different units, and they had a particularly definitive flair during the 1970s, ’80s, and ’90s.
