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Martian origami. The little Sojourner Mars Rover sits on the left petal of the Mars Pathfinder lander, Oct 1996. Sojourner weighed just 23 pounds (10.6kg) & became the 1st rover to operate beyond the moon when it landed in 1997. Pathfinder was the 1st successful lander on Mars by NASA since the 2 Viking missions in 1976. Sojourner was expected to operate between 1-4 weeks yet it served for 3 months, gathering important data on Mars for scientists back home.
“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]
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i wanna rb the soyuz 11 stamps but that one of them all dead makes me extremely uncomfortable
Yuri Gagarin reading and replying to fanmail (1961?)
More Mir.
Brand of Russian cigarettes called “Soyuz Apollo”.
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!
July 1974, the Soyuz 14 crew, cosmonauts Yuri Artyukhin and Pavel Popovich on the Baikonour launchpad ready for their 14-days mission aboard the Salyut 3 space station. Flight engineer Artyukhin wore an Omega Flightmaster cal 911 chronograph, which was auctioned at Heritage Auctions in 2016 for US $ 13750. (Photo: RKA/TASS)
Astronauts escape malfunctioning Soyuz rocket
MIR space station. 🌎
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)
ASTP Commanders Tom Stafford and Alexi Leonov in the Soyuz capsule during flight
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Soyuz descent Module interior. 🚀🌎
Samantha Cristoforetti running experiments aboard the ISS. 🌎🚀
Soyuz 19 over Thunderstorms
credit: NASA
“Superman” astronaut Oleg Kononenko during the examination of Soyuz spacecraft, last December - Picture by NASA/ESA/A. Gerst [640x960]
It almost looks like a high school yearbook photo, Anna Lee Fisher looks so young. Instead it’s her astronaut photo taken by NASA in 1979 when she completed her 1st year of training. Dr. Fisher flew aboard Space Shuttle Discovery in Nov 1984 to become the 1st mother in space. It was also the 1st Shuttle mission which deployed & retrieved 2 communication satellites. Space heroine!
The last person to orbit the moon & spacewalk in deep space; Ronald Evans on Apollo 17, Dec 1972. Mr. Evans also holds the record for longest time in lunar orbit at 148 hours. Chosen in Group 5 in 1963, he was also backup on the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in 1975.
International Space Station. 🌎🚀
Moon Cycle.
The image of the stickney crater, the largest crater on the Martian moon Phobos,is named for mathematician Chole Angeline Stickney. Over 9 km across, it is nearly half the diameter of Phobos itself.
The Blue Horsehead Nebula in Infrared. Credit:WISE,IRSA,NASA