Sputnik

fuckyeahyurigagarin:

Yuri Kuchiyev & Yuri Gagarin

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scipsy:

Cassiopeia A is a supernova remnant (the remains of a massive star exploded about 220 years ago) in the constellation Cassiopeia. It is 11000 light-years away in the Milky Way. The expanding clouds of material has a temperature of around 50 million degrees Fahrenheit, and it expands at 4000-6000 km/s; It is now approximately 10 light-years across.

japanese-goods:

Joan Fontcuberta ｔｉｔｌｅ:Sputnik Photo book japanese edition

NGC 7331

(Source: ikenbot)

fuckyeahspaceshuttle:

First Landing of Columbia

After completing the first full test of the Space Transportation System, mission STS-1, space shuttle Columbia is seen here on the Rogers dry lake, Runway 23, at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. From this aerial view, Columbia is seen as it is being convoyed to a parking area. 

scanzen:

Втopoй  космический  коpaбль - cпутник “Восток-2” c Г. С. Титовым. 6.VIII.1961.

Gherman Titov, the 2nd soviet cosmonaut orbiting the Earth on board Vostok 2, the second spaceship, 6 August 1961. Soviet matchbox label, 1962.

scanzen:

Moszkva. Megkezdte a tudományos munkát a Szaljut-6 űrállomáson Vlagyimir Kovaljonok és Viktor Szavinih űrhajós. Telefoto MTI Külföldi Képszolgálat, XXII. évfolyam 7. szám (25578). 3.

Vladimir Kovalyonok and Viktor Savinykh - the last resident crew of Salyut-6 space station. 1981.

scanzen:

Moszkva. Ismét négy lakója van a Szaljut-6 űrállomásnak. Vlagyimir Dzsanibekov alezredes és Zsugderdemidijn Gurragcsaa, a Mongol Népköztársaság űrhajósa a Szojuz-39 jelzésű űrhajóról átszállt a Szaljut-6-ra, ahol a Kovaljonok-Szavinih párossal végzik a közös kutató munkát. Telefoto MTI Külföldi Képszolgálat, XXII. évfolyam 8. szám (25578). 2.

Vladimir Dzhanibekov and Jügderdemidiin Gürragchaa before the launch of the Soyuz-39 spacecraft, March 22, 1981. With this mission, Gürragchaa became the first Mongolian, and second Asian cosmonaut.

ikenbot:

Partial Solar Eclipse over Texas

Image Credit & Copyright: Jimmy Westlake (Colorado Mountain College) & Linda Westlake

It was a typical Texas sunset except that most of the Sun was missing.

The location of the missing piece of the Sun was not a mystery — it was behind the Moon. Sunday night’s partial eclipse of the Sun by the Moon turned into one of the best photographed astronomical events in history.

Gallery after online gallery is posting just one amazing eclipse image after another.

Pictured above is possibly one of the more interesting posted images — a partially eclipsed Sun setting in a reddened sky behind brush and a windmill.

The image was taken Sunday night from about 20 miles west of Sundown, Texas, USA, just after the ring of fire effect was broken by the Moon moving away from the center of the Sun.

Coming early next month is an astronomical event that holds promise to be even more photographed — the last partial eclipse of the Sun by Venus until the year 2117.

commandmodulepilot:

Apollo 9 - Rusty on “The Porch”

fuckyeahyurigagarin:

Yuri Gagarin at Khabarovsk

(Source: yuri-alekseyevich-gagarin)

thenewenlightenmentage:

At the West Wall of Aristarchus Crater

Aristarchus Plateau is anchored in the vast lava flows of the Moon’s Oceanus Procellarum. At the plateau’s southeastern edge lies the spectacular Aristarchus Crater, an impact crater 40 kilometers wide and 3 kilometers deep. Scan along this remarkable panorama and you will find yourself gazing directly at the crater’s west wall for some 25 kilometers. Features along the terraced wall include dark impact melt and debris deposits, bright excavated material, and boulders over 100 meters wide. At a full resolution of 1.6 meters per pixel, the sharp mosaic was created from images recorded by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter’s narrow angle camera in November of 2011. The orbiter’s vantage point was 70 kilometers east of the crater’s center and only 26 kilometers above the lunar surface.

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by Wolfgang Promper

(Source: ikenbot)