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> it seems like they've been using said suits since at least 2015 First link i could find, from 2021. Clearly the same suits /s. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-e

• qiskit 5y ago
  The fourth photo captioned "Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev with toys used as indicator of weightlessness by ISS crews." https://web.archive.org/web/20141124185343/https://www.rt.com/news/207991-russia-iss-us-space/ https://web.archive.org/web/20141124185343/https://www.rt.co... Unless the russians hacked the archive or time traveled, it shows that the yellow suit has been used since at least 2014.
  • gebruikersnaam 5y ago
    In 2021 they were using the blue suit. In 2022, they switched back to the blue/yellow suit. It's just a coincidence that those colors happen to align with the Ukrainian colors, and therefore not newsworthy /s.
    • qiskit 5y ago
      > In 2021 they were using the blue suit. They were different teams of russians. Each team gets to choose their own colors. The one in 2014 ( "Oleg Artemyev" ) and the one in 2022 ( "Oleg Artemyev" ) are the same person/team? Maybe yellow is mr artemyev's favorite color. But whatever.
    • a_throwaway_10 5y ago
      The colors don't "align with the Ukrainian colors". The suits are predominantly yellow with navy blue and a substantial part of the blue is from the Russian flag on their chests. The Ukrainian flag is yellow and light blue, not yellow and navy blue. I don't know why everyone's saying it's the same colors.
• random_upvoter 5y ago
  New headline: Astronauts' history of solidarity with Ukraine stretches back further than previously thought