#lunokhod

[newts-and-sharks]

My new ocs!

Bayard the Knight, Lunokhod the Astronaut, Aristaeus the Beekeeper, Caladrius the Doctor, and Nautilus the Diver.

[supplyside]

Lunokhod

[thicc-astronaut]

Strange blast of radiation from the sun causes the Soviet Lunokhod rovers to come back online, they start exhibiting crab-like behavior and start hunting the Chinese Yutu rovers

[sporclechezchunklets]

That looks... very cool and fun, actually.

Lunokhod (Moon Rover). Soviet electronic toy from 1970s.

[begglog]

oh mein fucking god im back

dropping more signalis oc designs here 💖 you think shit ended with r10 but no shits just fucking starting (bonus gestalt oc under the cut)

[humanoidhistory]

November 17, 1970: The USSR's Lunokhod 1 lands on the Moon. It’s the first robotic rover to explore the surface of another world. (Postcard illustration by Valentin Viktorov.)

[kornwulf]

Lunokhod!

[livingforstars]

Lunokhod 1: Moon Robot - January 13th, 1996.

"On November 17th, 1970, the Soviet Luna 17 spacecraft landed the first roving remote-controlled robot on the Moon. Known as Lunokhod 1, it weighed just under 2,000 pounds and was designed to operate for 90 days, while guided by a 5-person team on planet Earth at the Deep Space Center near Moscow, USSR. Lunokhod 1 actually toured the Lunar Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) for 11 months in one of the greatest successes of the Soviet lunar exploration program. The futuristic looking eight wheeler is pictured here in an artist's conception atop its landing module. Ramps extend from both sides of the spacecraft, allowing the rover to choose an alternative route to the surface if one side is blocked by boulders."

[world-beauty]

Moon Robot: Lunokhod 1

Credits: Soviet Lunar Program

[historyinposters]

Not a poster but a Soviet New Year's card from 1971, featuring Lunokhod 1, the first every man-made vehicle to move on an astronomical body other than the Earth. (As Christmas was not officially celebrated in the USSR, Christmas imaginery was used in New Year's cards instead)

[beyond-the-isle]

Been working a little on the kids' teams in the background and have the base 'mons at least (wanna look at egg groups for some of their designs), one day I'll put myself through ref hell to get them sorted but in the meantime:

Ariel Gaston (Samurott, Hisuian genes) M Geb (Garchomp, shiny) M Bumi (Noivern) F Umbra (Roaring Moon) N/A Labrys (Haxorus, shiny) F Sahara (Flygon) F

Leanna Magnus (Chesnaught, Gogoat genes) M Elei (Milotic, shiny) F Huangdi (Dragonite, Milotic genes) M Alani (Vulpix) F Rufus (Clefable) M Bebop (Hydreigon) F

Mateo Sinatra (Skeledirge) M Volty (Pawmot) M Jevil (Gengar) M Kitt (Cyclizar) M Mari (Palafin) F Carpo (Type Null, Dragon Memory) N/A

Atlas Crikey (Feraligatr, shiny) M Manny (Mantine) M Sao (Dragonair) F Riptide (Dragonite) M Kai (Raichu, Alolan) M Shoal (Lapras, Tanoan) F

Yamilet Coloratura (Altaria, Shiny) F Alta (Primarina) F Tremolo (Dragonair) M Dot (Goomy) M Steinway (Lapras, Tanoan) M Stradivari (Kricketot, Shiny) M

Aaliyah Larimar (Kingdra) F Marea (Dragonair, Shiny) F Datsun (Cyclizar) M Brio (Lumineon) M Grimm (Houndoom) M Wukong (Infernape) M

Errakis Bundt Cake (Fidough, Snubbull genes) M Rosita (Flabebe) F Funfetti (Togekiss, Shiny) M Versace (Spritzee) M Biscuit (Comfey) M Bluey (Azumarill) M

Tyr Eltanin (Druddigon) M Algol (Dragapult) M Fafnir (Haxorus) M Lunokhod (Metagross) N/A Kepler (Aggron) M Brahe (Beeheyem) N/A

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 11.17 (after 1950)

1950 – Lhamo Dondrub is officially named the 14th Dalai Lama. 1950 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 89 relating to the Palestine Question is adopted. 1953 – The remaining human inhabitants of the Blasket Islands, Kerry, Ireland, are evacuated to the mainland. 1957 – Vickers Viscount G-AOHP of British European Airways crashes at Ballerup after the failure of three engines on approach to Copenhagen Airport. The cause is a malfunction of the anti-icing system on the aircraft. There are no fatalities. 1962 – President John F. Kennedy dedicates Washington Dulles International Airport, serving the Washington, D.C., region. 1967 – Vietnam War: Acting on optimistic reports that he had been given on November 13, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson tells the nation that, while much remained to be done, "We are inflicting greater losses than we're taking…We are making progress." 1968 – British European Airways introduces the BAC One-Eleven into commercial service. 1968 – Viewers of the Raiders–Jets football game in the eastern United States are denied the opportunity to watch its exciting finish when NBC broadcasts Heidi instead, prompting changes to sports broadcasting in the U.S. 1969 – Cold War: Negotiators from the Soviet Union and the United States meet in Helsinki, Finland to begin SALT I negotiations aimed at limiting the number of strategic weapons on both sides. 1970 – Vietnam War: Lieutenant William Calley goes on trial for the My Lai Massacre. 1970 – Luna programme: The Soviet Union lands Lunokhod 1 on Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) on the Moon. This is the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world and is released by the orbiting Luna 17 spacecraft. 1973 – Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, U.S. President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors "I am not a crook." 1973 – The Athens Polytechnic uprising against the military regime ends in a bloodshed in the Greek capital. 1983 – The Zapatista Army of National Liberation is founded in Mexico. 1986 – The flight crew of Japan Airlines Flight 1628 are involved in a UFO sighting incident while flying over Alaska. 1989 – Cold War: Velvet Revolution begins: In Czechoslovakia, a student demonstration in Prague is quelled by riot police. This sparks an uprising aimed at overthrowing the communist government (it succeeds on December 29). 1990 – Fugendake, part of the Mount Unzen volcanic complex, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan, becomes active again and erupts. 1993 – United States House of Representatives passes a resolution to establish the North American Free Trade Agreement. 1993 – In Nigeria, General Sani Abacha ousts the government of Ernest Shonekan in a military coup. 1997 – In Luxor, Egypt, 62 people are killed by six Islamic militants outside the Temple of Hatshepsut, known as Luxor massacre. 2000 – A catastrophic landslide in Log pod Mangartom, Slovenia, kills seven, and causes millions of SIT of damage. It is one of the worst catastrophes in Slovenia in the past 100 years. 2000 – Alberto Fujimori is removed from office as president of Peru. 2003 – Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s tenure as the governor of California began. 2012 – At least 50 schoolchildren are killed in an accident at a railway crossing near Manfalut, Egypt. 2013 – Fifty people are killed when Tatarstan Airlines Flight 363 crashes at Kazan Airport, Russia. 2013 – A rare late-season tornado outbreak strikes the Midwest. Illinois and Indiana are most affected with tornado reports as far north as lower Michigan. In all around six dozen tornadoes touch down in approximately an 11-hour time period, including seven EF3 and two EF4 tornadoes. 2019 – The first known case of COVID-19 is traced to a 55-year-old man who had visited a market in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China.

[sovietpostcards]

Vintage enamel pins - space

(left to right, top to bottom)

Energia rocket (1987) - $4

Mars-2 & Mars-3 (1971) - $4

Luna-16 (1970) - $6

Bryansk (city in Russia) / USSR SRV (Vietnam) / July 1980 / Soyuz-37 joint space flight - $5

Salyut & Soyuz-10 (1971) - $3.50

Vostok-3 & Vostok-4 (1962) - $6.50

1968-1988 (possibly commemorating Beregovoy's space flight?) - $4

October 5 1959 - $5

First Sputnik 1957 - $5

Interkosmos USSR-Bulgaria (1979) - $1.50

Luna-9 1966 / Lunokhod-1 1970 - lenticular (flicker picture) pin - $6

Size: 2.5—3 cm (0.9″—1.1")

Shipping: $5 for one pin, $9 for 2+ pins.

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[contextual-studies-seren]

Photography Essay - Sunday 2nd April 2023

How have firsts in photography progressed? And how does photography show proof?

Throughout this photo essay I hope to explore one first within photography, Then going deeper into the topic to see how it has developed since, Potentially why it has developed, And finally what peoples opinions were about this. The running order for the chosen five photographs can be seen above. They have each been paired with a quote from the Susan Sontag, On photography text from 1977. These quotes have helped with applying a narrative to each of these photographs.

First Moon Photograph

Figure 1: John W.Draper, History Colored, First time the Moon was Photographed, Pictures March 26, 1840

In figure 1 it shows the first photograph of the moon ever taken. This was in March 26th 1840, This was taken by John W. Draper from the rooftop of an observatory at New York University. (History Colored, Scott Walker, July 2020) This same person then went on to take the world’s first portrait of a woman and the first photograph of the solar spectrum.(History Colored, Scott Walker, July 2020)

A quote I believe fits with this photograph “To collect photographs is to collect the world” (On photography, 1977, pg 10). At a time where photographs didn’t exist I think this quote fits well as it would have been the first time larger numbers of people would have been able to see the moon, something not on earth, but rather in space.

Moon

Figure 2: John W.Draper, The Met, Moon, Created 1840

Also by John W.Draper is this version of the moon, as seen in figure 2. He said  On March 16, 1840, he wrote in his laboratory notebook, "This evening I exposed a prepared plate to the moonbeams which had been conveyed by a double convex lens."(The Met, Moon)

Although this has no specific date it was made during the same year as the first moon photograph as seen in figure 1. This was the first successful daguerreotype ever created of the moon and it allowed for many more advances in photography in the years following. (Library of congress)

“It was only with its industrialised that photography came into an art of its own” (On photography, 1977, pg 14)

Moon Landing 

Figure 3 : Moon Landing, 1969, Nasa.gov 

Figure 3 shows The First Moon Landing, This first took place on 16 July 1969 – 20 July 1969. (Nasa, 2019) 

As well as there being photographic evidence  This there was also an Apollo Lunar Surface Journal which took place between 1969-1972 the duration of which 6 astronauts landed on the moon,this journal was so that anyone and everyone could understand how and why this was happening.(Apollo Lunar Surface Journal, 2018) .

 However many people were still sceptical

  as to if the moon landing was actually real, Because of this speculation I thought the quote “Photographs furnish evidence” (On photography, 1977, pg 12) fitted well with the topic. The reason for choosing this quote is because of the irony. Photographs show proof however there was large speculation as to whether the moon landing actually occurred. If it was genuine?

Lunokhod 1 - First Lunar Rover 

Figure 4: Lunokhod 1 - First Lunar Rover, Nov. 17. 1970

Linking back to figure 3, not long after the first moon landing the first successful Lunar Rover happened. Figure 4 shows the Lunokhod 1. (Space.com, Dec 2016)

“Lunokhod 1, also known as Аппарат 8ЕЛ № 203 was the first of two robotic lunar rovers landed on the Moon by the Soviet Union as part of its Lunokhod program. The Luna 17 spacecraft carried Lunokhod 1 to the Moon in 1970.”

Some of the speculation as to if the photo shown in figure 3 was real could be due to the fact “In the 1960s, the United States and the Soviet Union were involved in a “space race”(the first successful lunar rover (December 24 2016). Figure 4 and 5 go nicely as a pair, as photography has captured two firsts both in the form of the space race.

A fitting quote for figure 4 is, “This gives shape to experience: stop, take a photograph, and move on.”(On photography, 1977, pg 16)There was no one physically there to experience what the rover was photographing.

Super Blue Blood Moon

Figure 5: Lunar Showstopper: 1st super blue blood moon in 35 years, January 2018

“A "blood moon" as seen in figure 5, Happens when Earth's moon is in a total lunar eclipse. While it has no special astronomical significance, the view in the sky is striking.”(Space.com, Jan 2023)

Photography now has the ability to capture moments in history that are on the rarer side, The difference in quality can be seen between figures 1 and figures 5. A quote I find fitting for this picture is “Photographs, which fiddle with the scale of the world” (On photography, 1977, pg 11) as well as “Photography has become one of the principle devices for experiencing something, for giving an experience of participation” (On photography, 1977, pg 16) 

The reason for choosing the photograph in  figure 5 is because after researching, a Guardian article said “The super moon is notoriously hard to photograph but that doesn’t stop everyone trying.”(The Guardian, 2021) This works in carrying out the idea that a photograph, no matter how bad still shows you were there, and that is often the only reason people take photographs.

Photo Reference List - 

Figure 1: John W.Draper, History Colored, First time the Moon was Photographed, Pictures March 26, 1840

Figure 2: John W.Draper, The Met, Moon, Created 1840

Figure 3 : Moon Landing, 1969, Nasa.gov 

Figure 4: Lunokhod 1 - First Lunar Rover, Nov. 17. 1970

Figure 5: Lunar Showstopper: 1st super blue blood moon in 35 years, January 2018

Reference List - 

History Colored, Scott Walker (July 2020) The first time the Moon was Photographed, John W. Draper 1840, https://historycolored.com/photos/5110/the-first-time-the-moon-was-photographed-march-26-1840/ 

Top war, Lunokhod-1 - the first successful lunar rover (December 24 2016), https://en.topwar.ru/106039-lunohod-1-pervyy-uspeshnyy-lunnyy-planetohod.html 

Library Of Congress, The Daguerreotype Medium, Articles and Essays, https://www.loc.gov/collections/daguerreotypes/articles-and-essays/the-daguerreotype-medium/  

Mail Online (Dec 2012) One small (practice) step for man:The ridiculous ways astronauts prepared for historic moon landing in 1969, https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2252168/Preparing-moon-walk-The-ridiculous-ways-astronauts-prepared-significant-moment-history.html 

Nasa.gov, June 2018, Apollo Lunar Surface Journal, Editor Eric M, Jones, https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj 

Nasa (July, 2019), Moon Landing, July 20, 1969: One Giant Leap For Mankind, https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/apollo11.html 

Phys.org, Marcia Dunn (Jan 2018), Lunar Showstopper: 1st super blue blood moon in 35 years (Jan. 31. 2018) https://phys.org/news/2018-01-lunar-showstopper-1st-super-blue.html 

Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1973 to 1977, Genre Essay

Space.com, Elizabeth Howell (Dec 2016), Lunokhod 1 - First Lunar Rover (Nov 1970), https://www.space.com/35090-lunokhod-1.html 

Space.com, Scott Dutfield & Elizabeth Howell (Jan, 2023), What is a Blood Moon, https://www.space.com/39471-what-is-a-blood-moon.html 

The Guardian, ‘If you zoom in it’s not too bad’: our underwhelming super blood moon pictures ,(May 2021), https://www.theguardian.com/science/gallery/2021/may/27/if-you-zoom-in-its-not-too-bad-our-underwhelming-super-blood-moon-pictures 

The Met, John W.Draper, Moon, Art Created 1840, https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/789162#:~:text=Draper%2C%20a%20physician%20and%20professor,successful%20daguerreotype%20of%20the%20moon 

[whirligig-girl]

So, Sputnik and Apollo might be the soviet and USA's most well known space programs, but they are not analogous to one another.

inexhaustive list:

Sputnik (first ever artificial satellite (soviet) = "Fellow Traveller" vs Explorer (first u.s. artificial satellite; first scientific satellite).

Vostok (first crewed orbiter (soviet)) = "East" (this is the one Yuri Gagarin flew on) vs Mercury (first american crewed suborbital; later orbiter(USA) = Mercury (the fast Messenger god; a planet) spacecraft on Redstone and Atlas rockets.

Voskhod (larger, multi-crew orbiter(soviet)) = "Sunrise" or just "rise (in the astronomical sense)" vs Gemini (larger, multi-crew orbiter(USA)) = Constellation of the Twins; launched on Titan rockets (named for the powerful mythological beings)

Soyuz (the larger still multi-crew orbiter still used today(soviet/russian) = "Union" vs Apollo Command/Service Module (USA) = God who carried the sun across the sky; on the Saturn family rockets (named for the god of time or just the 6th planet.)

Luna (Lunar robotic probe) = "Moon" vs Ranger, Surveyor, and Mariner programs of the U.S.A.

Venera (Venus robotic probe) = "Venus" (Mars was just Mars) vs Mariner program of the USA.

Lunokhod (Lunar rover) = "Moonwalker" vs like... the Apollo Lunar Roving Vehicle? I dont think space-race era usa ever landed robotic moon rovers.

Salyut (Crewed civilian space stations) = "Salute" and Almaz (Crewed military space stations) = "Diamond" vs the huge USA Saturn S-IVB-turned-space-station Skylab

Mir (large modular space station) = "peace" or "world" vs the unbuilt US station "Freedom." (the conceptual Mir-2 and Freedom stations were combined into the International Space Station after the fall of the soviet union)

The American Space Shuttle Orbiter (Space Transportation System), with individual reusable ships titled Enterprise (after the fictional starship), Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavor. vs the Soviet Buran shuttle project = "Snowstorm"/"Blizzard." Enterprise is most analogous to Buran; since both were only ever experimental test articles (although IIRC Buran actually flew in space unlike Enterprise).

Even when we compare apples to red apples instead of oranges to apples, there's still this difference between a grounded, friendly sounding name versus something grand and important. like yes, Explorer-1, you are exploring, but don't get too cocky you are after all just sweeping through the earth's radiation belts with a geiger counter.

When the soviet union named spacecrafts for celestial objects, it's because that's where it's going. Ranger and Mariner bring vibes of outdoorsy adventurers; Surveyor is the only one of the american robotic probes that feels delightfully, accurately, nerdy.

Anyway. uh. where's the Enterprise x Buran forbidden love yuri art? Where's the uh. the um. the sloppy makeout between Mir and Freedom? Where's the Apollo/Soyuz shipping? ok we actually DO have that one...

ok now kiss lol.

Love the contrast between the Americans’ “Apollo” and the Soviets’ “Sputnik.” You got the Americans naming their rocket after a Greek god trying to communicate the grandness and importance of this rocket. And you got the Soviets naming their rocket “fellow traveler.” Like a friend you go on an  adventure with together. This rocket is our little friend lol