On Friday, cosmonauts Denis Matveyev, Oleg Artemyev and Sergey Korsakov arrived on the International Space Station sporting vivid yellow and blue jumpsuits. They have been the primary Russian astronauts to journey to the ISS because the warfare in Ukraine started, and plenty of noticed their selection of uniform as an announcement in opposition to their nation’s invasion of its neighbor.
One day later, per Space.com, Russia’s Roscosmos area company dismissed these solutions. “Sometimes yellow is just yellow,” it mentioned in a Telegram put up noticed by the outlet. Roscosmos went on to assert the three cosmonauts have been sporting the colours of Bauman Moscow State Technical University, their shared alma mater. And for what it’s price, the varsity’s crest, like Ukraine’s nationwide flag, options loads of blue and yellow.
Иногда желтый цвет означает просто желтый цвет. Если бандеровские выродки думают, что мы из-за них поменяем наши цветовые вкусы, перекрасим стартовый комплекс Восточного в серо-буро-малиновый, герб МГТУ Баумана в оранжевый (нет, оранжевый тоже не подходит),.. pic.twitter.com/7qFDtu11Dl
— РОГОЗИН (@Rogozin) March 19, 2022
“Under no circumstances will we force cosmonaut graduates of Bauman University not to wear the colors of the coat of arms of their alma mater,” mentioned Dmitry Rogozin, the top of Roscosmos. The area company additionally later shared a photograph of Artemyev sporting a white jumpsuit with the colours of the Russian displayed prominently throughout the chest.
The cosmonauts didn’t say an excessive amount of about their selection of uniform. “It grew to become our flip to choose a colour,” mentioned Artemyev when requested in regards to the topic throughout a subsequent press convention. “We had amassed plenty of yellow materials so we wanted to make use of it. That’s why we needed to put on yellow.”
While astronauts from the US and Germany seemed joyful to see their new crewmates, tensions between the West and Russia threaten the way forward for a number of joint initiatives. This week, the European Space Agency mentioned it was suspending its ExoMars mission whereas searching for a technique to transfer ahead with out the involvement of Roscosmos.