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by gebruikersnaam 1556 days ago
> 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-england-york-north-yorkshire-564...
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qiskit 1556 days 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.co...

Unless the russians hacked the archive or time traveled, it shows that the yellow suit has been used since at least 2014.

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gebruikersnaam 1556 days 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.
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qiskit 1556 days 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.

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a_throwaway_10 1555 days 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.

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random_upvoter 1556 days ago
New headline: Astronauts' history of solidarity with Ukraine stretches back further than previously thought
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