#cccp space

[degeneratedworker]

"Visit the USSR - The country of the world's first cosmonaut!" Soviet Union 1965

[itsfullofstars]

[stone-cold-groove]

Soviet postage stamp commemorating the flight of Sputnik 2 (Спутник-2).

[rupertbbare]

"The Soviet space program used completely different controls and instruments from American spacecraft. One of the most interesting navigation instruments onboard Soyuz spacecraft was the Globus, which used a rotating globe to indicate the spacecraft's position above the Earth. This navigation instrument was an electromechanical analog computer that used an elaborate system of gears, cams, and differentials to compute the spacecraft's position. Officially, the unit was called a "space navigation indicator" with the Russian acronym ИНК (INK)"

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[supplyside]

Orbital Strike

[proustianlesbian]

Today is the 59th anniversary of the first ever spacewalk in the history of humanity !! The cosmonaut-painter Alexei Arkhipovitch Leonov (Алексе́й Архи́пович Лео́нов) realised it on this day, the 18th of March, in 1965 !!

🎨🚀🛰️👨🏼‍🚀🌌💙

Here he is with three of my other favorite cosmonauts : Yuri Gagarin, Boris Volynov and Sigmund Jähn !!

Alexei Leonov painted since childhood, and very well, so he obviously portrayed his experience as the first man going outside in the cosmos. Here are some paintings of him that I particulary love. The first one is the one he realised while on board of the Voskhod 2 flight mission, which is the first art made in space, representing the sunrise over the Earth.

I really adore how his art makes space look so silent and almost terrifying because of its endless immensity yet manages to show its beauty because of the stars and planets and nebulas 🌌💙. I absolutely love his work on the colours, he makes the cosmos looks bright and dreamlike and so hopeful !!

Alexei Leonov was also captain during the Apollo-Soyuz mission, ten years later in July 1975.

[simonh]

russian matchbox label by Jane McDevitt Via Flickr: 4 October 1957 - launch of Sputnik 1 Buy matchbox label book & prints at Matchbloc.com

[lidrauniverse]

Thank you so much to who bought at once 5 t-shirts from the Space Mission collection in @laTostadora online shop ^_^ : https://www.latostadora.com/shop/space_mission/?product=co#shop

[icogeum]

Cosmonaut postcard by L. Firsanova, 1988.

[julochka365]

18/9.2023 - found the coolest collection of Russian matchboxes from the years of the space race. couldn't resist it and it was only 95kr, so I didn't!

[degeneratedworker]

"You, Humanity!" Soviet Union 1966

[itsfullofstars]

[stone-cold-groove]

A definitive view of Sputnik 2 and, Laika, the space dog.

[carlosthepolarbear]

‘We checked the sky and found no gods and angels.’

———Yuri Gagarin

[supplyside]

Buran on route