Most probably, Leonov had adopted the patch as the personal logo for himself and the rest of the Soyuz-11 crew, including the back-up team of Viktor Patsayev, Georgi Dobrovolsky and Vladislav Volkov that ultimaltely flew. Had doctors not discovered a spot on Kubasov's lungs, which they feared was tuberculosis but which turned out to be an alergic reaction, he and Leonov would have flown the mission. A possible explaination is that Alexei Leonov - together with Valeri Kubasov and Pjotr Kolodin - was one of the three original crewmembers for the Soyuz-11 mission. No other crew had worn the patch before on such clothing. Right: A picture of the Soyuz-11 back-up crew (became prime crew) training for their mission.Īfter Soyuz-5, the patch was seen on the training and flightsuits of the Soyuz-11/Salyut-1 crew in 1971. Center: Alexei Leonov wearing the patch on a pre-Sokol flightsuit during Soyuz training. Left: The Zvezda 'Rocket' seen on the Yastreb-suit of Alexei Eliseev in January 1969. The cosmonauts were wearing the patch on the outer layer of their Yastreb-suit, again built by Zvezda. The patch seemed to be connected to Zvezda-built suits at first: the next time the patch showed up, was during the Soyuz-4/Soyuz-5 EVA on January 16, 1969, during which Alexei Eliseev and Yuri Khrunov 'walked' from Soyuz-5 to Soyuz-4. Right: The patch photographed in the Zevzda museum by Novosti Kosmonavtiki's Igor Marinin. Left, center: The Zvezda 'Rocket' seen on the Berkut-suit of Alexei Leonov in March 1965. We will therefore refer to it as the Zvezda 'Rocket' Since personalized designs were not encouraged by the Soviet system, the patch probably represented the Zvezda factory who had built the Berkut-suit. American astronauts were wearing fancy NASA-meatball patches on their suits the CCCP-patch was probably meant as a Soviet counterpart. We assume the Soviets knew that pictures of Leonov outside his spaceship would be published all over the world. (His crewmate Pavel Beljayev was also wearing it on his Berkut). It was worn on the protective layer of the Berkut spacesuit on March 18, 1965, by Alexei Leonov during his famous spacewalk outside Voskhod-2.
The arrowhead shaped CCCP logo was the first Soviet space patch that was publicly seen. Salyut - CCCP Zvezda-Rocket(1965) Zvezda 'Rocket'
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