Saturday Crafts. DIY Mir Space Station From Murzilka Magazine (1988)

The moon has a little sister!!!!!😭😭😭

Astronomy 🪐 🔭

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“There is no other home”, Soviet poster, 1986.

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NASA 60th Anniversary Tribute Posters - Created by Mike McCain

Soviet "Globus" navigation instrument, a mechanical/clockwork positioning display used aboard Voskhod spacecraft, starting with the first human space flight by Yuri Gagarin in 1961.

“my battery is low and it’s getting dark” is so hauntingly human, so crushingly lonely. I can’t articulate the deep, profound ache that sentence evokes. It’s acceptance and defeat and terror and sadness all at once, all from one tiny machine we asked to explore the stars for us.