The Surface Of Pluto, Painted By James Hervat For Astronomy Magazine In The 1970s

Selene Goddess of the Moon by Susan Lyon

This reminds me of some NASA Mars lander concepts. Maybe it’s coz I see the Worm logo on the side of a lander.

This was NASAs human lander for the 1990s proposed First Lunar Outpost missions to the Moon that never made it to the Moon. Unlike Apollo missions which used Lunar orbit rendezvous it was to use direct descent and ascent with the astronauts riding in an Apollo style capsule to and from the Moon’s surface. The unmanned version carried the outpost that could support a crew of four for up to 45 days.

Watch how the dust moves in the 1/6th gravity

Two astronauts asleep on Challenger’s middeck, August 9th 1983 ‘On Challenger’s middeck, Commander Richard “Dick” Truly and Mission Specialist (MS) Guion Bluford sleep in front of forward lockers and port side wall. Truly sleeps with his head at the ceiling and his feet to the floor. Bluford, wearing sleep mask (blindfold), is oriented with the top of his head at the floor and his feet on the ceiling.’

Credit to the NASA Archives.

Doug McLeod ‘Outbound’ (1988). From the book Visions of Space by David Hardy (1989)

Intellectually disabled autistic people are important and they matter, regardless of what they can and can’t do.

Cognitively disabled autistic people are important and they matter, regardless of what they can and can’t do.

Chronically ill autistic people are important and they matter, regardless of what they can and can’t do.

Mentally ill autistic people are important and they matter, regardless of what they can and can’t do.

Multiply-disabled autistic people are important and they matter, regardless of what they can and can’t do.

Young autistic people are important and they matter, regardless of what they can and can’t do.

Elderly autistic people are important and they matter, regardless of what they can and can’t do.

All autistic people are important and they matter, regardless of what they can and can’t do.

The personhood of autistic people is non-negotiable.

“We’re incredibly lucky to be able to be working where we are, up above the Earth, and being able to see our planet from that vantage point.” -Laurel Clark, STS-107

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

Concept art of the Space Shuttle returning from Space.

Artwork by G. Harry Stine

Date: 1978

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