Ceremonial Banner of Soyuz TMA-20M ISS Expedition 47 .

The size of the banner is 39” x 59 “, double faced.

The Soyuz TMA-20M emblem pays tribute to the origins of heraldry by its use of the classic shield shape. Its fields are divided by band of colors representing the Russian and American flags. The silhouette of a Soyuz spacecraft is at the center of the shield, which is crowned by an outline of the International Space Station. Three stars against the blackness of space symbolize the three astronauts of the spaceship, while animals feature in the other three quadrants. The black bear comes from the coat of arms of the city of Rybinsk, birthplace of spaceship commander Alexey Ovchinin. This city on the Volga is also the "capital of barge-haulers," called Burlaks in Russian. "BURLAK" is the callsign for the crew of this Soyuz mission. The American bald eagle, carrying the vector from the NASA logo it its beak, represents American astronaut Jeff Williams. The grey crane with its wings outstretched is for cosmonaut Oleg Skripotchka, who used the same bird in the patch of his first flight on board of the first in the current series of Soyuz spacecraft, on this one, the final Soyuz TMA-M.

Soyuz TMA-20M was a 2016 Russian Soyuz spaceflight to ISS.  It transported three members of the Expedition 47 crew to the ISS. TMA-20M was the 129th flight of Soyuz spacecraft. The crew consisted of a Russian commander Alexey Ovchinin and flight engineer Oleg Skripotchka, as well as an American flight engineer NASA astronaut Jeff Williams.

It was the final Soyuz TMA-M, which was replaced by the upgraded Soyuz-MS in 2016.

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