Comments on: Serenity patches, of some sort, on sale at TFAW

By: Miles Vorkosigan

Miles Vorkosigan — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 21:53:59 +0000

Carl's got it. The five-sided one is from the Apollo-Soyuz mission, or relatively close to it. Alexei was commander of the Soyuz end of that trip, just like Tom Stafford ran the American side of things. I've got the other two already, and I figure the Leonov patches are rejects; the triangular patch is supposed to have the names of the Leonov crew, and the shoulder patch is supposed to have the whole name, not just the first three letters… I guess they figured nobody could read Cyrillic.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 05:26:47 +0000

^What carl said, plus:
The yellow and red patch says "LEO" in Russian. Not sure what it's from or about, but that's what it says. (related to Leonov?)

By: Carl

Carl — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:58:19 +0000

FYI, the 5-sided patch is a Soyuz patch.

The round one says "Intercosmos," which was the Soviet space program that allowed military from Warsaw Pact countries to participate in Soviet space missions.

The triangular one reads "Leonov." Alexey Leonov was the first person to spacewalk and commander of the Apollo-Soyuz mission. He was also the dedicatee of Arthur C. Clarke's 2010: Odyssey Two and the vessel "Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov" from that book is his namesake. Thus the 2010 connection…

By: QMx Andy

QMx Andy — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:33:55 +0000

I have several of the screen-used patches framed up on my wall and they are, indeed, based on some of the patches seen in 2010. However, the patches in Serenity, while using the same pattern, are a good deal smaller than the ones in 2010. Not entirely sure why, except they fit better on Wash's shoulder

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:24:03 +0000

You are correct, the set contains the same four patches you've shown. On the TFAW product page you've linked to, you can actually view images of all four patches by mousing over any of the thumbnails (under the heading 'More Images') located beneath the main picture. Cheers!

By: pennausamike

pennausamike — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:33:39 +0000

Oooops!
There are still two examples of Wash's jumpsuit for sale, with good pics of the patches.

By: pennausamike

pennausamike — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:56:53 +0000

These are variations on the patches on Wash's jumpsuit in the BDM Serenity.
The wardrobe people modified Russian patches; I THINK both real and from the movie "2010".
The one with the swoopy rocket had the word "LYNDONO" in place of the Russian lettering.

I don't know if the images are still up in the archive section, but Wash's jumpsuit used to be shown at the Propstore of London site.