#soviet space programme

[zuxigo]

Oleg Gazenko holding Belka and Strelka like he is a farmer showing off his potatoes at the county faire

[feintrecords]

The video for JØTA’s second single, TERESHKOVA, about the first female cosmonaut who completed 48 orbits of the earth in 1963. 

[iatriki]

Orlan M Suit (c.2000) with 21KS Manoeuvring Unit by Bri_J Via Flickr: Soviet Space Programme. Cosmonauts Exhibition, Science Museum, London, UK.

[iatriki]

VZA Ejection Seat with SK Spacesuit by Bri_J Via Flickr: Soviet Space Programme. Cosmonauts Exhibition, Science Museum, London, UK.

[itwasdeliberate]

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why is is that whenever I do research for an essay, I come away shipping something?

[bloodymulberry]

Space Childhood

I used to draw endless martians, fighting machines, apollo craft and soyuz craft linked with salyuts. I've stopped drawing, but I still have my childish wonder at all such things.

I wish I could draw better. And had the visual imagination to go with it

[byronic]

Today is the anniversary of Laika's flight into space and I'm buying this graphic novel version of her story by Nick Abadzis.

[byronic]

The British Council announced that it is going to mark the achievements of the great Russian explorer by placing him opposite the statue of a great British explorer, Captain Cook.

Andrea Rose, the council's visual arts director and driving force behind the project, said the cosmonaut's successful mission in Vostok 1 was "a story that is of importance to all of us".

She added: "The fragility and the daring and the bravery of the missions are something beyond recognition and are reasons why we wanted to celebrate Gagarin as a symbol of aspiration, as well as intellectual curiosity."

Rose said there was an imbalance in western knowledge of space history. We know the story of Apollo and Neil Armstrong but fewer of us now know the incredible story of Gagarin. As well as the statue, the British Council will host an exhibition on his life which will include rare and intimate photographs lent by the Gagarin family as well as artefacts such as an ejector seat and the first space suit, SK-1.

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[The statue] will be installed on the Mall on 14 July for a year. The date and spot were chosen to mark the 50th anniversary of Gagarin's trip to London where he met the prime minister Harold Macmillan.