*For All Mankind Sseason 5 spoilers and S6 theories*
I realized I actually love the Soviet Mars-94 design after seeing it again so I decided to look it up some more
I found the real mission patches thinking "cool patch for Sojourner it has Mars on it- wait where is Mars on the Mars-94 patch for such a important *MARS* mission, why does it just have a big star???" (this will make sense in a bit)
But first let's go back to the previous FAM seasons to understand how they do final scenes starting with S1.
S1's ending we pan out from Jamestown showing off more of Shackleton clearly telling us the next season would have more developmet on the Moon (that was S2's entire theme).
S2's ending shows us going from Earth to Jamestown on the Moon but tricks you as it goes past Jamestown and flies to Mars with the first bootprints. (Mars was the main theme for S3).
S3's ending was nothing of note (you can stretch the speech talking about the Mayflower searching for a new world finding a new home into Mars-94 being about a new solar system but I doubt it)
S4's ending shows Dev looking up while the camera pans to the resource rich asteroid teasing resource processing (S5 we see Mars massively developed after they fought for it)
NOW the final scene for S5, the camera moves from Saturn going past the rings tricking you before panning to a star, after showing the star we see Mars-94 get rebooted an a message in Russian translating to "Detection of GW" I think this means Gravitonal Waves as the ship enters the gravitional pull of this new star triggering some automated system.
This star despite appearing large in frame is very dim and has a hint of blue while our Sol normally appears bright and yellow in FAM, Mars-94 had to have been a coverup for an unmanned mission to another star system. Something else that may support this is Irina Morozova in Ep 10 telling Aleida that the Soviet's basically have some secret ring for spaceflight that wants to find life, clearly something under the wraps could've happened before.
Let me know what you guys think of this theory, I might be insane who knows lol
seeing mars 94s big ass forehead again was pretty cool though