Take A Moment, Look Outside Your Window. 🌷🌼

Also, a happy 75th birthday to cosmonaut/flight engineer Alexander Serebrov. He held the record for the most number of spacewalks, 10, until cosmonaut Anatoly Solovyev beat his number with a total of 16 spacewalks. Serebrov contributed to the deigns for the Salyut-6, Salyut-7, and Mir space stations, and a “space motorcycle” named Icarus. He was quite the man!

And today, he turns 73.

Happy birthday! 💖🚀🇻🇳

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

Oh my...

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1.5h doodle.

🇱🇻 Happy Proclamation Day!

20%: learn history from the historical person

80%: shipping them

its just not right to do it towards em, but,

HELL YEAH BABY

How did i first get interested with russian cosmonaut-

um-- well-- im gonna tell it here.

actually this is asked by @la-francaise-de-coeur ! 

so....hmm...it started when i was on grade 5 elementary school (2015).

i read a library book IPTEK (science and technology book) on my school library. i found a part about space...im kinda curious about space...yeah...

 I go to the part "human in space". On there, i see cosmonaut Yuri gagarin, Valentina tereshkova, and astronaut Neil armstrong. i read it, and also i search them on google too. and i was like...wow...yuri gagarin and the others is pretty amazing! a space man!! great!!  he is quietly cute too....after i liked yuri gagarin and valentina tereshkova, i search another cosmonauts like Gherman titov, Andran Nikolayev, Valery Bykovsky, Alexei leonov, Komarov, and more of soviet old era cosmonauts.

when i go up to grade 6, i have a smartphone and i started to post space memes and arts on my instagram. on my school, nobody is know about yuri gagarin. they are just know neil armstrong, kinda sad tbh-- but on instagram, i found an indonesian friend who like/know yuri gagarin too! i was happy! because im indonesian! and the first space otp i made is, gagarin and tereshkova.HEHAHAHAaa~

When i graduated, into middle high school (2016) i watching a tv and they are talking about muslim astronauts. and i found one muslim cosmonaut named...Musa Manarov.

im very curious about him and i go to google to read a wiki about him. from there, i started to know his crew mate, Viktor Afanasyev. viktor...he is calm, cold looking person, and cool! i see manarov and afanasyev are looking friendly together on MIR...and...i started to ship them. i was so exited to draw their fanarts. *screams*

and from that too, there is another cosmonaut named helen sharman and sergei krikalev. krikalev... he is cool! i started to like him <3 and his crewmate Volkov and Jean-Loup chretien. since 2017, i starting too search new-era cosmonauts/astronauts like Sergey Volkov, Oleg Kornienko, Soichi Noguchi, Yuri Malenchenko, Scott Kelly, Chris hadfield, Paolo Nespoli and many more...

Its been 3-4 years i liked them. The cosmonauts. Cosmonauts.

Because they’re cool and an amazing hero.

from mother russia.

i would wrote a book. lmao.

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Yo inosuke chill out they baby

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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!)