German ESA astronaut M. Maurer Space X Crew 3 Expedition 66 spare nametag + flag set of patches.

It is absolutely beautiful set with golden thread embroidery of the astronaut name.

Ready to display in your collection.

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

Matthias Josef Maurer is German ESA astronaut and materials scientist.

On 14 December 2020, Maurer was officially assigned to SapceX Crew-3 mission, which launched on 10 November 2021.

A few hours before the announcement, Maurer revealed his second mission name as Cosmic Kiss, after the Nebra sky disk, the oldest known realistic illustration of the night sky. He traveled o ISS alongside NASA astronauts Raja Chari, who commanded the Crew Dragon, Thomas Marshburn, as the pilot, and mission specialist Kayla Barron. Once on board the station, they joined Expedition 66. This mission made him the twelfth German astronaut after Alexander Gerst in 2018.

As part of Expedition 66, Maurer and Chari installed ammonia jumpers on the P1 Truss and repositioned a radiator beam valve module which had been giving them trouble returning the unit to operation. The astronauts routed cables, installed cable clamps on the Bartolomeoplatform, tied back thermal insulation on the Kibo Exposed Facility Berthing Mechanism, replaced Camera 8 on the truss which has a bad filter and light, outfitted the radiator grapple bars for a future spacewalk, and also did other maintenance task outside the station. Because of time the task to break torque on the P4 electronics boxes was moved to a later spacewalk along with the truss cable routing.

Crew-3 landed in the Gulf of Mexico on 6 May 2022, after 176 days in space