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Drives me insane seeing people criticize stages and capsules as “obsolete” or “a step backward”

Compared to what? The space shuttle? SpaceX? Blue Origin? Virgin Galactic?

Those haven’t taken anyone to the moon.

NASA had to build SLS out of spare odds and ends and it’s still going farther than any of the billionaire brigade.

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Launch of Soyuz TMA-13M carrying crew to the International Space Station, Expedition 40.

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Soyuz 47S MS-01 ISS approach and re-entry highlights 2016

"the Earth flared like a million-faceted glass, an extraordinary array of vivid hues" –Cosmonaut Gherman Titov on the view from orbit

Posted june 5, 2026 at 1030 am Eastern Daylight Time

Nasa says Russian crew trying to fix worsening air leak in its portion of orbital laboratory

NASA ordered astronauts aboard the International ‌Space Station to shelter in their spacecraft and prepare ‌for potential evacuation on Fr

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The last song Komarov ever listened to was Tenderness " (Russian: Нежность) by by Aleksandra Pakhmutova, with lyrics by Nikolai Dobronravov and Sergey Grebennikov. (The link below is the cover of the song that popularised it, tumblr Is stupid and won't let me add audio files)

-"The Earth is empty without you

How can I survive for a few hours?"

This song first debuted in a musical festival in late 1965, it wasn't a success to say the least, only a few cosmonauts actually appreciated it, because they were the ones who requested the poets and songwriters to write something about Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. (Yuri Gagarin even danced with the writers of the song during the festival)

-"It's just empty on Earth without you

And you are flying and the stars

are giving their tenderness to you"

However, this song clearly found a place in Vladimir Komarovs heart, reportedly, this was the final song he chose to listen to before departing to the launchsite to board Soyuz 1, and he even asked Gagarin to thank the authors of the song on his behalf.

-"The Earth is empty without you

If you can, come back soon"

The song is about loss, and more specifically, losing a lover you'll never be able to see again. This song is most widely known as Yuri Gagarins favourite song. It became tradition for cosmonauts to listen to this song before launch after the Soyuz 1 tragedy. It really got popularised during the 1967 red carnation festival, only a few months after Vladimir Komarovs death. (Red carnations are also the flowers cosmonauts traditionally bring the fallen cosmonaut heroes before they launch)