Cosmonauts Yuri Gagarin And Vladimir Komarov, 1965 (colorized)

Ahh yes!!!💕

Maybe you and I exist together on a different wavelength than the rest of the world. Perhaps, we are on a separate frequency.

I just want you to know that Gennady Padalka is the ugliest man on Earth and looks like a soft shelled turtle. That’s all.

And i have to disagree with you, he's more like gecko

Inktober 2019 #8: ‘Frail’.

Alexei Leonov, the first man to perform an EVA.

And today, he turns 73.

Happy birthday! 💖🚀🇻🇳

Happy birthday to the first Asian and Vietnamese man in space, Phạm Tuân!! He turns 72 today 💕💕

hey! im not that well versed on all things space bc it's a relatively new interest of mine. how come ive seen so many blogs post about not wanting the other nasa logo? you totally don't have to answer, i just saw that you reblogged a post about it :) hope you have a good day!

By the other NASA logo do you mean the worm or the wormball?

And to answer your question, I’m think the logo arguments are pretty much entirely aesthetic. Some people think the worm is dated and ugly, other people love how sleek it looks. Some people think the wormball is a good compromise, others think the aesthetics are clashy (I’m in that boat.)

For reference, here’s some NASA logos. The ones under the cut are a little rare and honestly you don’t have to care about them, they just look cool.

This is the meatball. It’s the original from the 60′s and it’s still in use today. Detailed yet clean. Gorgeous. The swoosh is a tie in with the aero side of NASA and the stars and orbit with space. The serif lettering manages to look classy rather than dated. Even if this isn’t your preferred logo, you have to respect how it’s got the perfect amount of detail to look interesting while also being ca clean design.

This is the worm. It was an attempt to modernize the logo around the start of the Shuttle/Skylab era. If this was for any other agency, I admit the worm styling would be a little dated. But personally, I think this logo brings back some of the enthusiasm of the early Shuttle era, just like the meatball brings back the energy of the Apollo era. It’s striking, it’s recognizable, and it’s one of my favorite worm stylings. (Compare it to SF MUNI’s worm logo, which was so cluttered I, as a local, didn’t notice it said “muni” until I was a teenager.)

This is the wormball. (Wikimedia was giving me trouble so it’s just a transparent background; I actually don’t have this one saved on my laptop for personal aesthetic reasons lmao.) Some people love it, but you will never convince me to. 100% personal preference, though, so if you love it, that’s fine, just keep it away from me. It’s like pineapple on pizza; you either love it or you hate it, but you’ve definitely got a strong enough opinion to argue about it.

This is NASA’s seal. You’ll only ever see it on official documents and things like that. It’s not something that’s displayed very commonly on, say, the wall of a NASA facility, and even less commonly on spacecraft. I believe this has been in use since the creation of the agency.

And, last but not least, I’d like to leave you with how the insignia is displayed on NASA aircraft, because they all. Look. Sick.

When they display the meatball on the rudder of an aircraft, like on SOFIA here, they omit the meatball and stars and display it like this! It looks cool as hell and it looks even better on aircraft where the rudder frames it nicer. (While I was searching around I saw a mockup for a meatballess wormball and it didn’t look awful.) Maybe we should call this the vegan meatball?

It’s also displayed like this on aircraft that were associated with NASA/USAF’s hypersonic research program in the early 60′s. Some pilots from this program went on to become astronauts.

... Including Neil armstrong who flew the X-15 above.

Aircraft from that program also featured a pretty neat rudder: it has this yellow stripe with NASA in a serif font that's unique to this design, as far as I know.

The first photo is Neil's X-15 again, the other is Dick Scobee's X-24B.

Lastly, the worm was plastered unedited onto aircraft during the worm era. It didn't always look good, but it looked too sexy on the X-29 to not include a pic.

(All photos are mine from NMUSAF!)

Eurovision related dreams I've had

Kristian Kostov came back in 2018 and won.

Alexander Rybak told Alekseev he was his long lost dad and Mikolas Josef was watching in the background.

Benjamin Ingrosso Tweeted that he didn't get the hype about Arcade and the fandom went crazy on him.

I was wearing a shirt that said "I Can't Go On" in support of Robin Bengtsson's Eurovision entry.

I was travelling with Benjamin Ingrosso, my cat, and a couple of my irl friends to Germany.

My dad said Bilal Hassani would win Eurovision and he won.

Finally, serious art guys. this is takes a lot of time to draw these heroes though...🌟😄😅😂 I'm glad this turned out fine as expected ~😀 ▪︎ Scott Kelly and Mikhail Kornienko, choosen to do one year mission on ISS on 2015. Launched on 27 March 2015 on Soyuz TMA-16M along with Gennady Padalka. ▪︎ The heroes! 🚀🇺🇸🇷🇺 ▪︎ #space #astronaut #cosmonaut #космонавт #космос #scottkelly #mikhailkornienko #михаилкорниенко #drawing #art #sketch https://www.instagram.com/p/By2tIxWjsmH/?igshid=1ufozxtn3dyoi

THIS EPISODE MAKES ME DEAD---

space brothers episode 75 more like please don’t look at me i can’t handle this show

By the time Americans arrived on Mir—nearly a decade into its life—the station had become cluttered with used-up and broken equipment and floating bags of trash. During Mir’s lifetime, no adequate remedy was ever developed to deal with the stowage situation. Mir looked like a metal rabbit warren, or, as Mike Foale put it, “a bit like a frat house, but more organized and better looked after.”