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(JSC2006-E-00221 - 22 Dec. 2005) - Attired in Russian Sokol launch and landing suits, cosmonaut Pavel V. Vinogradov (left), Expedition 13 commander representing the Russian Federal Space Agency, and astronaut Jeffrey N. Williams, NASA space station science officer and flight engineer, pause from a busy training schedule in Star City, Russia to pose for a crew portrait. Vinogradov and Williams are scheduled for a spring launch on the Soyuz TMA-8 spacecraft to spend six months on the International Space Station.
(ISS013-S-002A - 12 Jan. 2006) --- Cosmonaut Pavel V. Vinogradov (center), Expedition 13 commander representing Russia's Federal Space Agency, astronaut Jeffrey N. Williams (right), NASA space station science officer and flight engineer, and European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Thomas Reiter of Germany pause from their training schedule to pose for their official crew portrait. Vinogradov and Williams are scheduled to be launched to the International Space Station in early spring of this year in a Soyuz TMA-8 spacecraft. Reiter, the second flight engineer for Expedition 13, is scheduled to launch on space shuttle mission STS-121 in July and will join Vinogradov and Williams already on the space station.
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Two patches made by Alex Panchenko
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In the middle a page signed by Vinogradov and Williams depict both variants of ISS-13 patch and provides details (patches produced for crew by Alex Panchenko using special details for Russian and American crew member.American flight engineer patch has Blue line border and Expedition word in English. Russian commander patch has Red line border and Expedition word in Russian language).
 
(ISS013-S-001 - January 2006) - This patch commemorates the thirteenth expeditionary mission to the International Space Station (ISS) which continues the permanent human presence in space. The ISS is depicted in its configuration at the start of the six-month expedition with trailing elements from the country flags representing both of the crew members--cosmonaut Pavel V. Vinogradov and astronaut Jeffrey N. Williams. The crew members made the following statement about their patch: "The dynamic trajectory of the space station against the background of the Earth, Mars, and the Moon symbolizes the vision for human space exploration beyond Earth orbit and the critical role that the ISS plays in the fulfillment of that vision."
 
Above: The new AB emblem patch. Note that it is missing the German flag....
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