Happy Birthday To The First Man In Space - Yuri Gagarin, Who Was Born On This Day In 1934! 🌠🚀❤

ASTP Commanders Tom Stafford and Alexi Leonov in the Soyuz capsule during flight

In memory of Soyuz 11, forty-seven years ago today.

Georgy Dobrovolsky (June 1, 1928 – June 29, 1971)

Vladimir Volkov (November 23, 1935 – June 29, 1971)

Viktor Patsayev (June 19, 1933 – June 29, 1971)

Early space station concept art by NASA. 1959.

“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]

space cat babey

First image from Israeli satellite Beresheet approaching the moon

From the archives - a school project i did back in 2012 (final semester of art school) attempting to depict a crew of cosmonauts, secretly stranded on a failing soviet weapons platform (perhaps even as their country dissolves on the planet below). The initial images are the finals, and the rest is all the development!

The Moon at Apogee and Perigee

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