Collection of 3 spare nametag and flag sets of patches made for ISS Expedition 65 onboard Soyuz MS-18

It is absolutely beautiful sets with golden thread embroidery of the astronaut Mark Vande Hei, cosmonauts Oleg Novistky, Pyotr Dubrov, names. 

Hook-and-loop fastener attached to the back of each patch.

Ready to display in your collection.

The photo and patches inserted in thick plastic folder, size 5” x 7”.

Information about each member of this mission:

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 had the record for the longest spaceflight by American astronaut with 355 days spent in space.

Mark Vande Hei returned to Earth with Soyuz MS-19 on March 30, 2022, having spent a total of 355 days in space.

Oleg Novitsky Roscosmos 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.

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 he returned to Earth on the Soyuz MS-19, together with cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov and NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei.