#astronaughts

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We didn't have rest days or weekends because we had to get ready as fast as possible, so we could beat the Americans, who were also racing to send a woman into space.

-Valentina Tereshkova (b. March 6, 1937)

She is a retired Soviet cosmonaut and engineer, and the first woman to have flown in space.

[deus-meus]

Pluto x Baby Pluto

[crownquill]

I d r e w so m e t hi n g

[hernameismarkie]

When your childhood best friend competes to become an astronaut and be sent into space! No biggie 😎 Well done @drjackiebell #BBC #Astronaughts 🚀⭐️🌎

[sumpix]

Fact or Fiction?: NASA Spent Millions to Develop a Pen that Would Write in Space, whereas the Soviet Cosmonauts Used a Pencil.

During the height of the space race in the 1960s, legend has it, NASA scientists realized that pens could not function in space. They needed to figure out another way for the astronauts to write things down. So they spent years and millions of taxpayer dollars to develop a pen that could put ink to paper without gravity. But their crafty Soviet counterparts, so the story goes, simply handed their cosmonauts pencils.

This tale with its message of simplicity and thrift--not to mention a failure of common sense in a bureaucracy--floats around the Internet, hopping from in-box to in-box, and even surfaced during a 2002 episode of the West Wing. But, alas, it is just a myth.

(via Fact or Fiction?: NASA Spent Millions to Develop a Pen that Would Write in Space, whereas the Soviet Cosmonauts Used a Pencil - Scientific American)

[iboommedia]

Just hanging out with the NEPHILUM. 12 Foot tall . THERE were once giants on these lands... _ #mars #giants #astronaughts #kennedyspacecenter #orlando (at NASA-John F. Kennedy Space Center)

[freddy-throne]

When death comes better hope she doesn't call your name! "FT" #freddythroneart #art #artist #popart #breaktime #illustrator #illustration #space #astronaughts #deathseeker #sketch #whoishe

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