Concept painting by Robert McCall of a Vulcan temple (image 1), among other things, for STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE (1979).
my favourite greetings to the universe from the Voyager spacecraft 💌
“There is no other home”, Soviet poster, 1986.
Strange and massive objects plow near the moon, captured on amateur film from Quebec, Canada. (26.03.2020).
Space Erik Olson
“What were astronauts like when they first returned from outer space? Nurse Dee O'Hara: ‘They have something, a sort of wild look, I would say, as if they had fallen in love with a mystery up there, sort of as if they haven’t got their feet back on the ground, as if they regret having come back to us… a rage at having come back to earth. As if up there they’re not only freed from weight, from the force of gravity, but from desires, affections, passions, ambitions, from the body. Did you know that for months John [Glenn] and Wally [Schirra] and Scott [Carpenter] went around looking at the sky? You could speak to them and they didn’t answer, you could touch them on the shoulder and they didn’t notice; their only contact with the world was a dazed, absent, happy smile. They smiled at everything and everybody, and they were always tripping over things. They kept tripping over things because they never had their eyes on the ground.’”
— Craig Nelson, Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon (via m-l-rio)
The sun, the moon and the stars. Out-of-doors. v. 2. 1932.