Russian cosmonauts, after their journey to the International Space Station with the Soyuz spacecraft, wore flight suits with the colors of the Ukrainian flag while entering the station. This isn’t the first “color” spacesuit incident, with cosmonauts not making a statement as to whether this color change has any political significance or purpose. Yulia Peresild, also from the Russian crew, had entered the International Space Station in a bright red flight suit. Therefore, it is thought that the colors coincide like this by chance.
Jonathan McDowell, a scientist at Harvard Astrophysics Center who closely follows space missions, suggests that the colors may actually be the colors of Bauman Moscow State Technical University, where all three astronauts (Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveev and Sergey Korsakov) graduated. it took. However, it did not go without saying that the colors resemble the Ukrainian flag.
It is actually plausible that the ‘Ukrainian’ color flight suits are in fact “Bauman University” color suits. They made a big deal of this being the first all-Bauman crew. (BMGTU is sort of Moscow’s MIT AeroAstro and many Russian astronauts are graduates) https://t.co/9yPLgwtYHv
— Jonathan McDowell (@planet4589) March 18, 2022
Russia’s space program and some of its partners and their customers suffer from the war in Ukraine and the ensuing sanctions. The European Space Agency has suspended its mission to Mars, which will be launched on Thursday by a Russian rocket. Earlier this month, OneWeb, a British satellite company partially owned by the British government, canceled the launch of internet satellites that would be sent by Russia’s Soyuz rockets.
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