Last Friday , the young crew of astronaut from Russia reached the International Space Station , which continue to be safely in orbit despitethreats from Dmitry Rogozin , the point of the Russian Space Agency , Roscosmos . The first images from orbit had many perplexed , surprised , and even hopeful . The three cosmonaut were not wearing the standard blue suits , instead , they donned yellow and dark suits .
The vividness scheme is interchangeable to the Ukraine flag and that was enough to send people across the cyberspace into bold annunciation that the cosmonauts were indicate messages of solidarity with Ukraine , which Russia began to invade almost a calendar month ago . But others were not convinced that this was a message . Or if it was , it was in all probability not one in financial support of Ukraine .
When it come to space travel , thingsare checked and checked again . Even if cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev , Denis Matveyev , and Sergey Korsakov had desire to make a gesture , it is extremely unlikely that they would have been able to do so . They would have been trip up before .
Roscosmos claimed there was no special meaning to the yellow and blue suits before confirming that their color is unrelated to the violent war that Russia is engage in Ukraine .
" Sometimes yellow is just yellow-bellied , " Roscosmos ’s press overhaul allege on itsTelegram channelas report byReuters .
" The flight suit of the novel crew are made in the colours of the emblem of theBauman Moscow State Technical University , which all three cosmonauts graduated from … To see the Ukrainian flag everywhere and in everything is dotty . "
This reason was also affirm by Rogozin in atweet .
Yet , Artemyev initially gave a different answer . As reported bythe Guardian , he said that they plainly had a lot of yellow-bellied framework in warehousing and that ’s why they had choose it .
March 18 , the day the cosmonauts arrive at the ISS , is the anniversary of the Russian encroachment and annexation of Crimea , the Ukrainian peninsula , in 2014 . Some have suggest that maybe the Russian government expected to have conquered Ukraine by this distributor point and the blue and yellow lawsuit with the Russian iris on top would have been a message in solemnisation of the victory .
Whatever the intentions and message , space has become a crucial place to force substance concern to the Russian invasion . NASA and the European Space Agencytried to appear impersonal in the beginning , while Rogozin , incensed by the sanctions put on Russia , threatened the end of the ISSand arrogate Russia would let it break up down to Earth .
