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Expedition 47 is scheduled to be the 47th expedition to the International Space Station. Expedition 47 is scheduled to begin upon the departure of Soyuz TMA-18M in March 2016 and conclude upon the departure of Soyuz TMA-19M in September 2016.
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Left: Erik's abandoned and unfinished design from September 2011. Center: a first version by Tim and Jorge from January 2014. Right: the almost final version from March, 2014. It still shows the name of Zalyutin, who was replaced by Malenchenko in May 2014.
The Expedition-47 patch artwork was first shared by Tim Peake on Facebook on November 22, 2014. It was designed by Jorge Cartes and Tim Gagnon, working with Tim Kopra. It was based on an unfinished design made in September 2011 by Erik van der Hoorn for Expedition-41, which at that time was expected to be commanded by Fyodor Yurchikhin.
In December 2011, Yurchikhin had been re-assigned to Expedition-37, a mission for which Jorge was already the main designer. As a result, the 'helmet design' was orphaned. Still, Erik contributed to Yurchikhin's new mission patch by drawing the ISS for it. Three years later, Tim and Jorge used both the helmet idea and a reflection of the Expedition-37 ISS for the ISS Expedition-47 patch.
The original patch as approved by NASA, included a symmetrical '47'. When the Expedition-46 patch was rejected in October 2014 by Roscosmos, because the stylized '46' on it looked too much like a Ukranian political symbol, it was decided to change the '47' in the next patch as well.
The first version of the Expedition-47 patch with symmetrical '47', produced by AB Emblem. Also, the solar panels have gray outlines. Production of the patch was put on hold by NASA in October 2014; a first new batch was produced in February 2015.
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| Links |
Expedition 47 discussion at CollectSpace
Expedition 47 on wikipedia
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