A trio of Russian cosmonauts arrived on Friday at the International Space Station (ISS) wearing yellow and blue outfits, raising questions about whether the three were showing solidarity with Ukraine by wearing the colors of the Russian-stricken country’s flag. and rebuking the invasion of his own government.
While it is possible that the lawsuits are a sign of solidarity with Ukraine, there are also other plausible explanations. Some have speculated that the three may be paying homage to the Bauman Moscow State Technical University they attended and which has blue and yellow among the school’s colors.
The head of Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, posted photos on Telegram of media coverage speculating that cosmonauts were supporting Ukraine and said: “Here some cowardly thugs and their Anglo-Saxon backers don’t know what else to invent in their war of information against Russia.” He added that the team was not representing Ukraine, but wearing the colors of their alma mater: Bauman Moscow State Technical University.
“Sometimes the color yellow is just the color yellow. The new crew’s flight suits were designed to match the colors of the emblem of the Bauman Moscow State Technical University, from which the three cosmonauts graduated. The design of the uniforms was coordinated long before Seeing the Ukrainian flag everywhere and everything is just a clinic [em propaganda]”, another Roscosmos employee wrote on his Telegram channel “Closed Space”.
Cosmonauts typically choose their flight suits months in advance, which would predate Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But it is unclear when the cosmonauts selected the yellow and blue robes.
“For Soyuz flights, normally the crew meets with the company that makes the suits months before the flight and they are allowed two custom suits,” he told the company. CNN, a NASA astronaut who flew a Russian Soyuz spacecraft to the ISS. “Typically, one suit is the same across the team, and the second suit is something personal.”
“I think it would be a real challenge to make and launch these (flight suits) at the last minute. But it’s not impossible,” said a former NASA astronaut who also flew a Soyuz spacecraft to the ISS.
When the three cosmonauts arrived at the space station on Friday, they spoke to callers on the phone, one of whom asked about the color yellow. Commander Oleg Artemyev replied jokingly: “We actually had a lot of yellow material, so we had to use it. That’s why we had to wear yellow.”
Veteran former NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, who has been a vocal critic of the Russian invasion, noted the uniforms in a tweet, written in both Russian and English: “Three Russian cosmonauts who have just docked to the International Space Station have arrived in Ukrainian yellow. !”
Cosmonauts Artemyev, Denis Matveev and Sergey Korsakov will spend the next six and a half months aboard the space station.
The three were welcomed aboard the ISS by two other Russian cosmonauts, four NASA astronauts and a European Space Agency astronaut. The crew were all smiles and hugged each other after the newcomers floated through the hatch in their bright yellow suits.
Source: CNN Brasil
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