To The Moon, And Back.

NASA and SpaceX launch astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley to the International Space Station. [May 30th, 2020]

comme the stars perfume

Some crazy laced agate under the microscope….🔬

wheres that picture of like the performers at the bolshoi or somewhere reading about gagarin going into space during intermission while all still in costume

The rings of Saturn, observed by Voyager 2 on this day in 1981.

The Columbus Weekly Advocate, Kansas, May 18, 1922

“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.

Long Tail of Comet Pons-Brooks ©

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Cosmonaut Ivan Vagner obtained this image of the comet NEOWISE a few hours ago from the International Space Station. He says that the dust tail looks very good from there. It is worth enlarging the image.

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