According to news sources, a 15-year-old boy from a Siberian orphanage known as “Ostovok”, which translates into tiny island, has won the children’s contest to design a spaceship logo. The orphanage is located in the region of Kemerovo in Western Siberia, and the young man who won, Yuri Menkevich, was one many competitors. Anatoliy Perminov, head of the Russian space agency, Roscosmos, approved the logo Menkevich submitted. It will become the emblem for the next Soyuz TMA-15 mission which is scheduled to launch in May.
