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ASTP-Support Crew



The support crew for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project had their own patch. Instead of last names the support crew used their nick-names: Bo (Karol Bobko), Bob (Robert Overmeyer), Crip (Robert Crippen), Troop (Richard Truly), Johnny (Dzhanibekov), Boris (Andreyev), Yuri (Romanenko) and Sasha (Ivanchenko).


A Personal Story..


Astronaut Bob Overmyer tells the story:

,,Somebody who'd been involved in making the official patch - I think it was from Rockwell - made that unofficial crew patch for those of us serving on the astronaut backup/support crews, just for fun. The artist just drew it; we never had any embroidered patches made up. There weren't that many printed. Just enough for the eight astronauts and a number of people around the Johnson Space Center."

Space Flight News 28, April 1988.


Source:

This patch was made by Jacques Tiziou in 1975.
Although the crew did not have the patch made up at the time, a 5" embroidered version was especially produced for collectors in the 90's.