Apollo 13 Concept Art By Ryan Aeronautical

The Moon is unconventionally beautiful

The Moon is round, blotchy, spotty, rough-skinned, 'imperfect'. Try and tell me The Moon isn't beautiful.

Take a picture of The Moon with your phone. Looks bad, right? Cameras have a habit of taking something beautiful and making it look bad.

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Some more facts about The Moon

The surface is darker than asphalt.

It isn't symmetrical. The farside has more craters and less maria than the nearside.

Some people see a face on it. This is known as 'The Man on The Moon'

It takes moonlight 1.2 seconds to reach Earth at the speed of light

Altiplano (Malena Szlam, 2018)

The circumference of the moon’s orbit is 2,412,743km :/

Yeah! Even for that diameter you suck !

From the film Ad Astra

Peripheral vision. Anna Lee Fisher prepares for the 14th mission in Space Shuttle history & the 2nd of Discovery, Nov 1984. Dr. Fisher spent 8 days in space during her career & also assisted in the development of the Canadarm & the design of spacesuits for women. Selected as an astronaut candidate in 1978, her other accomplishments include being a Doctor of Medicine & a Masters in Science graduate.

The most complex flying machine ever created

Underappreciated Space Shuttle photos

Endeavour being serviced in the OPF

Columbia, STS-62. The OMS pods can be seen glowing due to interactions with atomic oxygen in an unusually low perigee of 195km. The hexagonal outline of the Extended Duration Orbiter Pallet is also visible.

Atlantis, STS-98. Approaching the ISS.

Endeavour, STS-54. Reflections in the window.

Challenger, rolling out before STS-6.

Mission Specialist Kathryn Thornton looking out the window while aboard Endeavour, STS-49.

Discovery, stacked ahead of STS-41.

Atlantis, STS-44. Bumped camera.

Discovery ahead of STS-128.

Challenger, STS-41B. Launching for the heavens (zoom in).

A color shot of the asteroid Ryugu’s surface. © MASCOT/DLR/JAXA

Close up of Space Shuttle Atlantis docked to the ISS. 🚀✨

5/12 tragedy day!!

Great shots of China’s Chang’e 4 lander, the first Chinese spacecraft to make a soft landing on the surface of the Moon. These were taken from the Yutu 2 robotic rover.

Interesting to note, the Yutu 2’s mission was supposed to last only 3 days, but it’s exceeded that by 362 days!

More can be seen at moon.bao.ac.cn