CEREMONIAL FLAG SOYUZ TMA-19M ISS EXPEIDITION 46
CEREMONIAL FLAG SOYUZ TMA-19M ISS EXPEIDITION 46
Ceremonial flag of Soyuz TMA-19M ISS Expedition 46.
The size of the flag is 39” x 59 “, double faced.
In the center of the emblem’s composition there is a Soyuz spacecraft flying in orbit. The changing shades of the background (from light blue to dark blue) symbolize the planet Earth and the vast space. Three stars represent three crew members. On the border of the emblem are the names of the cosmonauts and the flags of the countries they represent - Russia, USA, Great Britain.
Soyuz TMA-19M was a 2015 Russian Soyuz spaceflight to ISS. It was launched on December 15, 2015 from Baikonur Cosmodrome, transporting three members of Expedition 46 crew to the International Space Station. TMA-19M was the 128th flight of a Soyuz spacecraft since the first in 1967. The crew consisted of a Russian commander accompanied by American and British astronauts. The flight returned to Earth on June 18, 2016.
Crew: Flight engineer 3 Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, flight engineer 2 ESA astronaut Timothy Peake (UK), flight engineer 1 NASA astronaut Timothy Kopra.