#space flight

[trutown-the-bard]

Good news everyone! Welders in Sheffield found a way to weld two pieces of metal together without needing a third agent! A critical component for creating structurally stable space-faring vessels. A few decades from now this will be regarded as one of the greatest scientific and mechanical discovery of our time.

#space flight #welding #Sheffield

[nocternalrandomness]

SSME Start / STS-116 Discovery / Kennedy Space Center Launch Pad 39B / December 9, 2006

#NASA #Space Shuttle #STS-116 #Discovery #SSME #Launch Pad 39B #Kennedy Space Center #space flight #spacecraft #Orbiter #Aerospace

[toaarcan]

Well, today is Moon Landing Day, so here’s the best-quality footage of the launch I could find.

#Apollo 11 #Saturn V #NASA #Space #Moon Landing Day #Space Flight #Space Exploration #God everything about Apollo 11 makes me emotional

[mudwerks]

The Remains of Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov, The man who fell from space (1967)

"In his diary, Nikolai Kamanin recorded that the Soyuz 1 capsule crashed into the ground at 30–40 metres per second (98–131 ft/s) and that the remains of Komarov's body were an irregular lump 30 centimetres (12 in) in diameter and 80 centimetres (31 in) long."

I guess his remains probably have a pretty good shelf-life.

#disturbing reality #Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov #remains #fall from space #1967 #vintage #space flight #russia

[astronotmovie]

A stark landscape. Photograph during the Nov 1969, Apollo 12 moon landing with Pete Conrad. Apollo 12’s ‘Intrepid’ lunar module (reflected in the visor) was nearly identical to ‘The Eagle’ of Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin; one difference being hammocks were installed so the astronauts could rest more comfortably when on the moon.

#apollo 12 #astronauts #lunar landing #astronaut #man on the moon #1969 #nasa #space exploration #vintage space #space #space travel #space age #space race #moon landing #astronaut suit #nasa astronauts #1960s #space flight #lunar surface #the moon

[todaysdocument]

Space Shuttle Endeavor - Crewmembers Celebrate Thanksgiving 

Record Group 255: Records of the National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationSeries: Mission Photographs Taken During the Space Shuttle ProgramFile Unit: STS-126

Description: STS-126 Mission Specialists Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper and Shane Kimbrough pause for a photo during preparations for a shared Thanksgiving Day meal. Elements of the meal are floating around them. Image was taken on the Middeck (MDDK) of the orbiter Endeavour during Expedition 18 / STS-126 joint operations.

This photograph shows two astronauts in blue polo shirts and tan pants floating on the Space Shuttle Endeavor.  Both are looking at the camera and smiling.  Several packets of astronaut food float near them.  A wall of cabinets is behind them.  On the right side of the photo, a portion of a third astronaut can be seen.

#archivesgov #Thanksgiving #2000's #astronauts #space shuttle #space flight

[timmurleyart]

Snoopy in space. 🚀🪐🐶🇺🇸

#snoopy #snoopy dog #peanuts #peanuts gang #charles m schulz #pop art #contemporary art #andy warhol #nasa #nasa photos #space suit #outer space #solar eclipse #space ship #space art #space station #charlie brown #Charles m Schultz museum #cape canaveral #silver Snoopy #good grief #vince guaraldi #cartoon art #cartoon strip #moon landing #cell animation #animated tv series #space center Houston #space flight #spaceship

[gameraboy2]

Space Flight – The Coming Exploration of the Universe by Lester Del Rey New York: Golden Press, 1959 Illustrated by John Polgreen

#space flight #lester del rey #john polgreen #vintage #1959 #1950s #scifi #scifi art #science fiction #science fiction art #art #illustration #painting

[theweeowlart]

🔴Space shuttle mixed media drawing. My main mission with this drawing was to get that blast super bright, to really look white hot.

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#space #Space Shuttle #Blast Off #Space Flight #drawing #Pen And Ink #Colour Pencil #Graphite Pencil #MixedMedia #artwork #Scottish Artist #Made In Scotland #art

[jentirely-true]

Peak Finland: being offered to go into space and rejecting it because "what's the point of it"

#Finland #space flight #interkosmos

[vintagepromotions]

‘Glory to the first cosmonaut - Major Yuri Gagarin!’

Poster celebrating the first man in space on 12 April 1961, Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (1961).

#vintage poster #1960s #yuri gagarin #Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin #cosmonaut #astronaut #russian #space #space flight #spacecraft #rocket #Поехали!

[barbielore]

On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first human to venture into outer space on a spacecraft.

That was in fact his only space flight, as he was back-up crew for a later space flight which ended in disaster, and he was banned from participating in any further missions, lest he experience tragedy and Russia lose a hero cosmonaut.

April 12 is now the international observance of International Day of Human Space Flight, also known as Yuri's Day or, in Russia, Cosmonaut Day.

Barbie has herself been an astronaut many times. In fact, it's a top 10 career for her, depending on how you calculate the careers.

It's really no wonder - space flight has captured the imagination of the human race since well before Yuri Gagarin's initial flight, and continues to this day, more than 60 years later.

This year, 65 years after Barbie debuted, and 63 years since Yuri Gagarin's first space flight, another astronaut Barbie has hit shelves, and I hazard a guess that it will not be the last.

So onward and upward to Barbie, to her enterprising little sister Chelsea, and to Yuri Gagarin and all astronauts and cosmonauts that followed him.

#barbie #yuri gagarin #space flight #yuri's day #cosmonaut day #astronaut barbie #astronaut #international day of human space flight #barbie space discovery

[nocternalrandomness]

2 Aug 1971 - Apollo 15 Lunar Module Pilot James Irwin salutes the U.S. flag

#NASA #Space flight #Moon landing #Apollo 15 #Lunar module #American Flag #Lunar rover #Astronaut #Space program #Moon

[toaarcan]

One of my favourite spaceflight facts is that, due to some heavy technicalities on what the universally accepted definition of an astronaut is, and the intense secrecy surrounding the Soviet Union at the time, the entire Vostok program, AKA the thing that first took humans into space, technically doesn't count and everyone just agrees to ignore that.

Submitting my claim that Vostok is actually the cutest spacecraft ever, which is an entirely normal statement.

When they sat down and defined what counts as a successful manned flight, part of the requirements included the astronaut(s) landing in the vehicle. But Vostok didn't do that. Instead, the Vostok cosmonauts ejected from the vehicle after re-entry and parachuted to the ground separately. This continued until the later Voskhod missions, where they ripped out the ejector seat so they could fit more guys inside (and on the second one, one guy and an inflatable airlock so one of them could do the first spacewalk), and put in a rollcage so that landing inside the vehicle wouldn't turn them to goo.

But by the time Voskhod 1 blasted off from Baikonur, all of the Mercury flights had already been flown, so this means that, according to the rules, America technically completed the first manned space flights.

Another technicality was added to the list a couple of years back, when the guys that make the rules futzed with said rules in order to deny Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson astronaut status, because fuck 'em. Now, in order to be an astronaut, you have to actually do something on the flight, otherwise you're just a passenger. And many of the Vostok flights were indeed more like passengers than crew. The Vostok spacecraft is pretty much a big satellite with a passenger compartment and a re-entry module, and it's fully automated.

So why didn't these technicalities get called out? The USA and USSR were never shy about trying to embarrass each other, or make each other look foolish on the world stage. One of the biggest reasons why we know the Moon Landing Conspiracy Theory is total stupidity is that the USSR congratulated NASA on the successful landing, because if it had been recorded on a soundstage in Area 51, the Soviets would've been the first to call bullshit.

Well, part of it is just that the Americans didn't know about the specifics of the Vostok program at the time. Whereas the American space program was a very public affair with cheering crowds showing up to watch every launch, the Soviets were much, much more clandestine than that. Baikonur is in the middle of the Kazakh desert, and the Soviets were keen to lie about anything that went wrong.

When their attempt at a moon rocket, the N1, endured four successive failures on launch, mostly caused by the Soviets lacking the funding and the facilities to properly test the thing, and instead just had to launch fully built rockets and hope they worked, the Soviets simply scrapped the last two and declared that they'd never intended to go to the Moon and were all about Earth orbit instead.

The N1 was actually more powerful than the Saturn V, but because it never reached operational status and the Soviets preferred to pretend it didn't exist, the Saturn V remained the world's most powerful rocket until Artemis 1 flew last year. A similar situation is happening now, with SpaceX's Superheavy being more powerful than the SLS, but also being basically a giant bomb at the moment.

Most Americans had no idea how Vostok worked, and didn't even know what it looked like. They didn't get to see what a Soviet spacecraft actually looked like up close until the Apollo-Soyuz mission in 1975.

Behold, the setting for the most expensive handshake in history.

By the time the full details came out, the world had known that the Soviets did it first for decades, and challenging that doesn't really do much for anyone besides the people that want to go "Um, ackchully" about everything.

Additionally, the rules weren't even written yet at the time, so there's even less reason to start changing shit up now. Vostok might be technically breaking the rules, but nobody cares, and downplaying the immense technical achievements of Sergei Korolev, Yuri Gagarin, and everyone else that worked on the early Soviet spaceflights on account of a rules quirk that wasn't even written yet is just kinda dumb.

(Random sidenote, Korolev was the chief designer of much of the USSR's early spacecraft, including the R7 rocket that carried both Sputnik and Vostok into space, and still carries some of the Soyuz flights to this day. And, like pretty much every major achievement of the USSR, he wasn't Russian. He was, in fact, Ukrainian.)

#Vostok #Vostok 1 #Yuri Gagarin #Sergei Korolev #Apollo #Soyuz #Apollo-Soyuz #N1 Rocket #R7 Rocket #Voskhod #Space Flight #Space Travel #Space #History

[ultimatememeoverlord]

Sci-fi Pilots

in sci-fi with space flight, you see a strange hybrid of terms, like you have a bunch of nautical terms, like "Hailing" and "Port and Starboard" but you have lots of Aeronautical terms like Pilot and just flying in general, and we know that the type of people who would be in space, would be the kind to have fun with it and probably take these to the logical extremes of either end of the spectrum, like I want a Spacer that is just fully larping as a 19th century Mariner, just like like they are still in like full futuristic space suit - completely white hair - mariners cap - thick blue peacoat - even a boatswain's call whistle and then you have the other end of the spectrum, where they just look like the stereotypical commercial pilot - aviators - short sleeved dress shirt - tie just like, you see so much of like independent space shipping crews that like i feel like would really just have some fun with it, like, you're in space with like 10 other people for months at a time, you're gonna come up with a bit eventually to pass the time

#humans are space oddities #humans are space orcs #space travel #sci fi #commercial space flight #space flight #space ship #space crew

[astronotmovie]

The view of Earth at 10,000 miles, taken during the unmanned Apollo 4 mission, Nov 1967.

#outer space #the earth from a distance #nasa #apollo 4 #space travel #space exploration #astronauts #vintage space #space race #space #astronaut #space age #1967 #space history #space program #1970s #space flight