Soviet Space Poster, 1963.

an astronaut and a cosmonaut

Russian spacecraft names

Have you ever searched what russian spacecraft names mean? Soyuz - Сою́з - Union Salyut - Салю́т - Salute/Fireworks Mir - Мир - Peace/World Vostok - Восто́к - Orient/East Voskhod - Восхо́д -  Ascent/Dawn Zond -  Зонд - Probe Energia - Энергия - Energy Buran - Бура́н - Snowstorm/Blizzard Sputnik - Спутник - Satellite/Fellow Traveller Progress - Прогресс - Progress Kosmos - Ко́смос - Cosmos Molniya - Молния - Lightning Zenit - Зени́т - Zenith Luna - Луна - Lunar/Moon Lunokhod - Луноход - Moonwalker Venera - Венера - Venus Tsyklon - Циклон - Cyclone 

Dikson, Siberia

JEANS!!!CATS!!!😼👖

Sometimes you wonder where your pants went off …

Apollo-Soyuz delegation in the USSR, early 1970s. Shortly afterwards, a snowball fight broke out between the Americans and the Soviets. The Soviets won.

Czinke Ferenc: Súlytalanság I., II., III. – Farkas Bertalant köszöntve! (1981, három fametszet, szerigráfia)

I woke up out of a dead sleep to make this and then immediately passed back out

tonight’s episode: I’VE CAUGHT A LOVELY BUNCH OF COSMONAUTS

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.”

April 12 - the Cosmonautics Day, or Space Science Day

May the Space be with you!