Russian cosmonauts hung out the Victory Banner outside the ISS (photo)

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Russian cosmonauts on the International Space Station (ISS) Oleg Artemiev and Denis Matveev unfolded a copy of the Victory Banner on the Nauka module during a spacewalk. This initiative of the Russian team was supported at all levels, including Roskosmos, informs publication “Rossiyskaya Gazeta”.

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The publication writes that the idea to place the “Victory Banner” outside the ISS was proposed by cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev and was implemented on the eve of May 9th. However, it remains unclear whether a copy of the flag hoisted in 1945 over the entrance to the Reichstag was accidentally on board the station, or whether this was a pre-planned action by the leadership of Roskosmos.

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Earlier, the head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, posted on Twitter a photo of the Angara A1.2 launch vehicle with a white letter “Z” printed on the body.

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“This is what the light-class Angara A1.2 looks like before being sent for flight design tests,” he signed his post.

However, after a while, the publication was deleted due to violation of Twitter rules.

Earlier it was reported that Russian cosmonauts on the ISS Oleg Artemiev, Denis Matveev and Sergei Korsakov were seen in yellow and blue suits. Some Western media have speculated that the color of the suits was chosen for political reasons. However, Artemiev later commented on this fact, evasively saying that they “had accumulated a lot of yellow material.”

American astronaut Mark Vande Hai, who returned from the ISS, said on this occasion that the suits of Russian cosmonauts “did not carry any political overtones“.

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