Posted on 04/06/2022 6:42:58 PM PDT by BenLurkin
A NASA astronaut who just returned from the International Space Station says his Russian counterparts who boarded the ISS wearing yellow and blue spacesuits were not doing so to support Ukraine.
Mark Vande Hei, who returned to Earth on March 30 after nearly a year in space, said the yellow and blue colors represent the university the Russian cosmonauts attended.
"I think the folks that wore them had no idea that people would perceive that as anything to do with Ukraine," Vande Hei said in a press conference Tuesday. "All three of them happen to be associated with the same university and those are the school colors for that."
Hei says he thinks the Russians were "blindsided" by the reaction on Earth.
Last month, Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveev and Sergey Korsakov, docked their Soyuz MS-21 spacecraft on the ISS. When they entered through the hatch, all three were wearing yellow spacesuits with blue. The Russian flag was also featured on their spacesuits.
When asked about the yellow suits, Artemyev said that every crew chooses their own.
"It became our turn to pick a color. But in fact, we had accumulated a lot of yellow material so we needed to use it. So that's why we had to wear yellow," he said...
Sounds like the media is keeping their FAKE NEWS record near-perfect. Kind of silly here, but when their support of False Flags costs hundreds of innocent Ukranian lives...not so silly.
Honestly it doesnt matter if its what they say or not.
All three regimes - 6, including iran, china and norks - need to go down hard.
Probably a wise political move if they want to remain a cosmonaut.
“People who lives in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.”
Attributed to Chaucer
Don’t think you get what i posted.
The older I get, the more I don't got. Sorry.
This is laughable. Cosmonauts don’t pick the color of their flight suits. There has been no variation for a decade. The truth is, the war was supposed to be over a week before the cosmonauts arrived at the space station, and the uniforms were a symbol of solidarity between Russia and Ukraine to ease the pain of Ukraine being conquered. Russia misjudged Ukraine’s reaction to being invaded, so the awkward excuse was “we had too much yellow material”.
There is a strong bond between these cosmonauts. That the media would choose sides is just another notch in their disruptive conduct.
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