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13 hours ago, CatastrophicFailure said:

It would seem it's their university colors. No one get excited. <_<

yet. 

IDK they positioned themselves in a very interesting way, could still just be because it DOES look better with yellow in front but it just feels off in some way.

9 hours ago, JoeSchmuckatelli said:

It may get exciting for them after they land... 

Depending on how carefully they chose they're words (and how much they care) the trip after their spaceflight might be just as interesting.

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Yes, they snuck in the coveralls onboard and somehow ditched the original ones, uh-huh.

The "Baumanets" branding, as well as calling MS-21 "S.P. Korolev" both hapenned in January. I looked into that because Sergei Pavlovich's national self-identification is another matter of Rule 2.2b.

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Trying to say it as apolitical as possible, one theory is that this was because yesterday was in the Kremlin's original plans the day to celebrate the successful completion of... that... which has instead yet to happen as those... targets... haven't been reached. However, since you can't easily switch the flight suits for something different (as well as probably isn't worth the effort) they still flew with those suits which results in the explaination given by the astronauts being "we had too much yellow fabric"

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14 minutes ago, Beccab said:

Trying to say it as apolitical as possible, one theory is that this was because yesterday was in the Kremlin's original plans the day to celebrate the successful completion of... that... which has instead yet to happen as those... targets... haven't been reached. However, since you can't easily switch the flight suits for something different (as well as probably isn't worth the effort) they still flew with those suits which results in the explaination given by the astronauts being "we had too much yellow fabric"

Why would they celebrate that with yellow, though? Besides, if they wanted to do political signalling on the ISS, three pieces of white tape would be a whole lot more specific.

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1 hour ago, kerbiloid said:

CBM berthing ports are seen.

It's appended to an RT article from 2014. I've also found a second photo, used in articles from 2018 but displaying the TMA-12M patch.

Spoiler

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Also,

1 hour ago, DDE said:

A few years later they brought along a version with the Russian tricolor on both breasts.

They're the same suit, looks like.

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6 hours ago, Beccab said:

Trying to say it as apolitical as possible, one theory is that this was because yesterday was in the Kremlin's original plans the day to celebrate the successful completion of... that... which has instead yet to happen as those... targets... haven't been reached. However, since you can't easily switch the flight suits for something different (as well as probably isn't worth the effort) they still flew with those suits which results in the explaination given by the astronauts being "we had too much yellow fabric"

Agree probably we drawing lines and obviously the program is run by the Russian government. 
Now I expect them to use pressure suits during docking,  even if unlike dragon they have an orbital module docking. and an lock between. 
Dragon might have an second hatch but its close to the docking port. 

 

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14 minutes ago, sh1pman said:

Good way to scare off any potential commercial customers forever.

Also, I imagined space pirates differently….

"No refunds" is the rule of the game this year, apparently. I could list quite a few services and companies who acted in a similar fashion.

...although to be fair, OneWeb was already pretty much the last commercial customer Roscosmos had anyway.

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