NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei preflight jersey t-shirt.  

The jersey depicting the image of Yuri Gagarin, Soyuz MS-18 takeoff was part of the celebrations of the 60th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s historic flight, the first man in Earth orbit, which took off from the same cosmodrome on April 12, 1961. As a tribute, the Soyuz capsule was named “Yu.A. Gagarin”, with the name painted on the outside.

On the back, the image of Vostok 1 Gagarin Spacecraft and Gagarin quotations:

“I see the Earth! I distinguish the folds of the terrain, snow, forest ... I observe the clouds ... Beautiful! The beauty!”

On the right sleeve Soyuz MS-18 printed patch and on the left sleeve USA flag

Astronaut Mark Vande Hei is the last U.S. astronaut scheduled to fly on a Russian Soyuz, after 26 years of joint missions. 

On April 9 2021, Vande Hei alongside Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky and Pyotr Dubrov successfully launched onboard Soyuz MS-18 as part of ISS Expedition 6, 65 . 66.

On September 14, 2021, it was announced that Vande Hei and Pyotr Dubrov had their six-month stays on the station extended by another six months This means Vande Hei would break the record for the longest spaceflight by an American astronaut with 353 days.