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How Ukrainian Flag Got into Space

20.11.2017

The pictures of the Ukrainian flag on the Space Station recently circled the media, while the flag itself circled the Earth literally. Why the US astronaut Randolph Bresnik cared to take the blue-and-yellow canvas to the orbit? The story is quite interesting...

Mr. Bresnik told it during a teleconference with Kyiv, which took place last month. It turns out that he got the flag last year in the city of Dnipro (former Dnipropetrovsk) where he was spending leisure time with his family. The point is that it is the home city of Mr. Bresnik's adopted son. "And that's why we went back there with the whole family, spent several days in Novomoskovsk, and then a few days in Kyiv. That's where I got the flag. And that is why I took it with me," said the astronaut. He also added that planned to bring the flag of Ukraine back from space to earth.

What is intriguing, this is not the first appearance of Ukrainian flag in the orbit. It's already been there exactly 20 years ago — brought there by Leonid Kadenyuk. He went through the Soviet program of training cosmonauts, but flew into space as a representative of independent Ukraine, and on the American Shuttle. Back then, in 1997, the appearance of its own astronaut was another confirmation of the high international status of the country.

Hear and see more from the Commander Randy Bresnik of NASA telling about his work aboard of the International Space Station, Expedition 53 as told to Ukrainian students gathered at the America House in Kyiv, Ukraine on October, 25, 2017. The moderator of the meeting was Ambassador of the United States of America to Ukraine Mila Jovanovic.

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