Collection of Soyuz MS-18 crew members: cosmonauts O. Novitsky, P. Dubrov and astronaut M. Vande Hei Sokol Spacesuit spare nametag patches.

The patches inserted in thick plastic folder (5" x7") with the photo of the crew on the back and ready for display in your collection.

Information about Soyuz MS-18 mission:

Soyuz MS-18 is a Soyuz spaceflight that was launched on 9 April 2021. It transported three members of the Expedition 64 crew to ISS. Soyuz MS-18 is the 146th crewed flight of a Soyuz spacecraft. The crew consists of a Russian commander cosmonaut Oleg Novistkiy, a Russian flight engineer cosmonaut Pyotr Dubrov, and an American flight engineer NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei. The spacecraft is scheduled to return to Earth on 17 October 2021 following 191 days in space. It is expected that the flight will serve as the landing vehicle for the Russian film director Klim Shipenko and actress Yulia Peresild who will launch to the ISS aboard Soyuz MS-19 and spend approximately a week in space in order to film a movie, Vyzov (Russian: Вызов, 'Challenge').

Information about Soyuz MS-18 crew members:

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 64, 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 Astronaut Mark Vande Hei have a record for the longest spaceflight by an American astronaut having spent a total 355 days in space and safely return to Earth onboard Soyuz MS-19 on March 30, 2022.

Cosmonaut Pyotr Dubrov is No. 125 launched on April 9, 2021 at 10:42 Moscow time from site No. 31 of the Baikonur cosmodrome as flight engineer No. 1 of the Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft crew and the crew of the International Space Station under the ISS-64/65/66 program of the main space expeditions. The commander of the Soyuz MS-18 crew is Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky, flight engineer No. 2 is NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hai. Rapprochement of the Soyuz MS TPK with the ISS was carried out according to the "superfast", two-turn scheme. The spacecraft docked at 14:04 Moscow time to the Rassvet module of the ISS Russian segment 3 hours 22 minutes after launch. On June 2, Pyotr Dubrov, together with cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky, made a planned spacewalk, during which they successfully completed all the work on the installation of equipment on the outer surface of the Russian segment of the International Space Station. The astronauts replaced the removable panel of the fluid flow regulator in the thermal control system of the Zarya functional cargo block and prepared the Pirs module for undocking. The duration of the extravehicular activity was 7 hours 19 minutes. On the night of September 3–4, 2021, cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky and Petr Dubrov performed a planned spacewalk to integrate the Nauka multipurpose laboratory module, for the first time since its docking with the International Space Station. The astronauts plugged in the power supply cables and docked the Ethernet cable. The duration of the extravehicular activity was 7 hours 54 minutes. On September 9, cosmonauts Novitsky and Dubrov made the third spacewalk, which lasted 7 hours and 25 minutes. The cosmonauts connected an Ethernet local network cable, two high-frequency television communication cables and a cable between the Kurs-P feeder devices of the Zvezda module and Kurs-P of the Nauka module, installed a handrail No. 4005 on the Nauka module and a platform with containers of the experiment "Biorisk-MSN”. Pyotr Dubrov spent 355 days in space and on March 30, 2022 cosmonaut P. Dubrov returned to Earth on the Soyuz MS-19, together with cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov and NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei.

Oleg Novitsky a Russian cosmonaut No.114 531 days 6 hours 58 minutes on orbit Veteran of 3 space flights: Soyuz TMA-06M ISS Expedition 33/34 –commander Soyuz MS_03 Expedition 50/51 commander Soyuz MS-18 Expedition 65 commander On April 9, 2021, together with Roscosmos cosmonaut Pyotr Dubrov and NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei, he launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome as the crew commander of the Soyuz MS-18. During the flight, he performed three spacewalks together with cosmonaut Pyotr Dubrov with a total duration of 22 hours and 33 minutes. On October 17, 2021, the Soyuz MS-18 crew consisting of Roskosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky and space flight participants film director Klim Shipenko and actress Yulia Peresild safely landed in the steppes of Kazakhstan. The flight duration was 191 days.