Soyuz TMA-01M was a Soyuz flight that transported three members of the Expedition 25 crew to the International Space Station. TMA-01M was the 107th flight of a Soyuz spacecraft, and the first flight of the modernized TMA-M series. The spacecraft remained docked to the space station during Expedition 25, to serve as an emergency escape vehicle.
The patch is based on the drawing by Alexander Turovsky of Michurinsk, Russia. Aleksandr Kaleri described his crew's patch to collectSPACE in July: „It is a hexagon with flags and families [names]: two flags – American and Russian – and three families. Inside there is a silhouette of the Soyuz composed from digits, zeros and ones, above the planet flying through the Sun and some stars. And there is an outline of a crane as the backdrop of the Soyuz. The Soyuz is represented digitally out of zeros and ones with the crane.“ The zeros and ones are binary for the ASCII text STMA-01M.
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