War in Ukraine: Russian cosmonauts wearing yellow and blue caused a sensation

Three Russian cosmonauts arrived safely at International Space Station with the Soyuz capsule that carried them successfully stranded at the station, where it remains one of her few collaborations Russia with USA – although there are problems – despite the tensions because of it war in Ukraine.

The cosmonauts were welcomed by the team already on the International Space Station, which consists of four Americans, two Russians and a German. Their participation in the mission came a day after the announcement of the European Space Agency (ESA) that a joint robotic mission to Mars is postponed with Russia due to the invasion of Ukraine.

However, what was striking was that in the photos published by the Russian Space Agency, Roscosmos, the three cosmonauts, Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveev and Sergei Korsakov, wore yellow uniforms with blue lines, that is, in the colors of the Ukrainian flag. !

It should be recalled that recently the head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, called for the lifting of sanctions against Russia, otherwise may cause the International Space Station to crashas he claimed.

According to Rogozin, the operation of the Russian spacecraft refueling the International Space Station (ISS) will be disrupted by sanctions, thus affecting the Russian part of the station, which is mainly used to correct the orbit of the entire structure. As a result, it could cause the ISS, which weighs 500 tonnes, to “land” or “land”, he said.

Russia is planning its own mission to Mars

Russia will start working on its own mission to Mars after the European Space Agency (ESA) suspended the joint Russian-European mission due to the invasion of Ukraine, Reuters reports, citing Interfax.

ESA announced on Thursday that it was impossible to continue cooperating with Russia as part of the ExoMars mission. Later this year, a Russian rocket was to carry a European-made rover to the red planet.

“In the near future we will start working on a mission to Mars,” said Dmitry Rogozin. According to Interfax, Rogozin said he did not consider it necessary to include a rover in the mission because the landing unit could do the required scientific work.

Rogozin said there were “serious doubts” about what ESA could do without Russia, which already has the spacecraft, launch pad and landing unit. It would take ESA at least six years to develop its own landing unit, he said.