Russian space agency Roscosmos has denied claims that its a few cosmonauts wore what appeared to be the colours of the Ukrainian flag as a likely statement towards the ongoing war, according to a report from the BBC. The three cosmonauts, Denis Mateev, Oleg Artemyev, and Sergey Korsakov donned vibrant yellow and blue suits as they boarded the Worldwide Place Station on Friday.
Roscosmos was fast to dismiss any stories that recommend the cosmonauts wore the colors in solidarity with Ukraine. “Sometimes yellow is just yellow,” the company wrote in a translated article on Telegram (via Place.com). “The style of the uniform was agreed on very long in advance of latest situations.” The write-up says yellow and blue are the identical hues in the emblem of Bauman Moscow Point out Specialized University, the alma mater of all a few cosmonauts. In a individual submit on Telegram, Roscosmos shared an picture of Artemyev sporting a yellow fit for the duration of his initial flight in 2014.
…а космонавтов-выпускников Бауманского университета заставим ни при каких обстоятельствах не носить цвета герба их альма-матер, то они глубоко ошибаются))) pic.twitter.com/E0MkcqdVIS
— РОГОЗИН (@Rogozin) March 19, 2022
Roscosmos head Dmitry Rogozin equally added that the a few were representing their university, not Ukraine. “Under no conditions will we drive cosmonaut graduates of Bauman University not to wear the colours of the coat of arms of their alma mater,” he wrote on Twitter.
The cosmonauts did not show any that means driving the shades in the course of a livestreamed press meeting right after their arrival. Artemyev brushed off a question about the hues of their satisfies, jokingly saying: “It turned our change to choose a color. The truth of the matter is, we had accumulated a great deal of yellow cloth, so we needed to use it up.”
All a few cosmonauts arrived at the ISS aboard the Soyuz MS-21 spacecraft that released from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. They had been warmly received by their fellow German, Russian, and American crewmembers aboard the ISS in spite of the tensions between Russia and other nations.
Just one of those people crewmembers is American astronaut Mark Vande Hei. A Russian spacecraft is set to carry him, along with cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anton Shkaplerov again to Earth on March 30th. Russia says it will bring Vande Hei back again as planned, regardless of stories indicating normally.
