#interkosmos

[thererisesaredstar]

Stamps commemorating Cuba's participation in the Interkosmos-1 program and the first Cuban in space, Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez (1980)

[genna-ivanovich]

The Pamirs: Soyuz-39! 🚀🇲🇳🇷🇺

Doodled them yesterday, commemorating their launch in 22 of march 1981.

(Ye it's kinda messy it's a small doodle awawa)

Happy anniversary!

[cupidcosmos]

Since Today is March 15th, in Hungary we remember the 1848-49 revolution. Since I'm hungarian I wanted to post about the first Hungarian Cosmonaut Farkas Bertalan (Bertalan Farkas in Western name order)

Farkas Bertalan during training

Farkas along with Soviet cosmonaut Valery Kubasov, was launched into space on Soyuz 36 to the Salyut 6 space station, as visiting crew for the resident Soyuz 35 crew on May 26, 1980. After 7 days, 20 hours and 45 minutes, and having completed 124 orbits the visiting he returned back to Earth.

Farkas Bertalan and Valery Kubasov preparing for the flight.

After boarding they completed so many experiments they barely had time to rest, only sleeping 3 hours a day.

"When Yuri Gagarin flew into space, I was only 12.. I can't believe I’m gonna fly after him. It’s unbelievable that human can work, live in zero gravity. 25 years have passed since then but his historical feat….”.

Farkas Bertalan and Valery Kubasov in Budapest after returning to Earth.

Farkas Bertalan was the hero of the soviet union title on June 30th 1980 and upon returning to Hungary he was gifted a hungarian made bicycle by factory workers.

[edwhiteandblue]

December 2, 1990: Journalist Toyohiro Akiyama becomes the first Japanese citizen in space onboard Soyuz TM-11 | 📸 Roscosmos

[gertold]

happy soyuz-31 launch day! there’s a really cute moment in “Sons of The Blue Planet”, from the press-conference upon their return:

The audience listened intently as Valery Bykovsky and Sigmund Jähn shared stories about their mission, how the flight went, the warm welcome they received aboard Salyut-6 from Vladimir Kovalyonok and Aleksandr Ivanchenkov, and the details of the scientific, technical, and medical experiments developed by Soviet and East German specialists.

But the journalists weren’t satisfied yet. They kept throwing questions at the cosmonauts. One of them asked: “How would you rate the success of the mission yourselves?”

Bykovsky (smiling): You think we should grade ourselves? No, I’ll pass on that. But if it’s about Sigmund’s work, on a five-point scale, I’ll gladly give him a solid five...and I’d even add a plus!

Jähn (matching his commander’s tone): And I’d give Valery a five-plus too!

[alone-in-my-home]

“fully automated luxury gay space communism”

I made these based on an old interkosmos prop from the USSR

[deerspace9]

Peak Finland: being offered to go into space and rejecting it because "what's the point of it"

[kosmos-fantastika]

Commemorative postage stamp celebrating the Soviet Interkosmos space program (USSR, 1983)