The arcing interstellar bow wave is created by the star Zeta Ophiuchi. The bluish star at the centre is Zeta Oph, a star 20 times more massive and 65,000 times more luminous than our Sun. Credit:NASA,JPL-Caltech, Spitzer Space Telescope.
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“The Day the Earth Smiled.” The wide-angle camera on NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has captured Saturn’s rings and our planet Earth and its moon in the same frame. July 19, 2013. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute [838x958]
“Superman” astronaut Oleg Kononenko during the examination of Soyuz spacecraft, last December - Picture by NASA/ESA/A. Gerst [640x960]
happy birthday to vladimir mikhailovich komarov, who was born on this day in 1927!💛 🚀 the cosmonaut who bravely sacrificed himself for his friend - yuri gagarin on the unfortunate soyuz 1 mission. remember to remind your friends that you care about them and cherish your friendships - because you never know when it might be for the last time.
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The Soyuz 11 mission patch.
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Astronauts escape malfunctioning Soyuz rocket
More of my concentration from school, now in pink
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February 4, 1970 – At Cape Canaveral, Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell trains for a moonwalk he’ll never make.