I have this book about the cosmos from 1988 ('91 for the polish translation) and it has a bunch of spacecraft included in it, and this evening i wanted to share them all with you.
Illustrated by Brian Delf and Luciano Corbella.
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first up we have... curiously unnamed space telescope that is definitely not Hubble. Slightly different shape for the aperature cover door!
Ariane 3
Full two pages dedicated to shuttles! many tiny drawings. For some reason the book calls them "Kosmoplan" (cosmoplane). Please excuse the scribbles. this book was the property of a bunch of unruly kids, including me. They wont go away.
Intelsat 5 (big and small)
Various different spacecraft types, including IRAS, Landsat 5, NOAA-8 and Navstar 1
and a tiny molniya :)
What i assume is either Westar 6 or Palaba B-2 being retrieved. but honestly idk it could be some other bullshit.
Baby Mir! and Soyuz, naturally
Lunokhod 1/2! The crosshatching is particularly yummy here (astronauts that go to the moon are called "selenonauts" in here, which seems is a polish/slavic exclusive term?)
not spacecraft but heres a very lovely spread of a part of our solar system. Really good sense of scale here, with how you can barely even see the curvature of our sun
Speaking of the sun, here's the Solar Maximum Mission! thats the one they repaired on STS-41-C
next up, Mariner 10 and a Venera lander sharing a page
BEEAAAUTIFUL full page spread of a Viking lander
Pioneer 10/11, but ever so slightly implied 10 thru the text. Yippie! hi Tenny!
weirdly turquoise Voyager 1 and 2. Curious bit is how info about neptune couldve only been added with the translation, since it mentions the '89 flyby like its a thing that already happened.
Giotto... thats peepaw hell yea (And the only ESA probe in the book 🥹)(ig it was a different time)
Einstein Observatory (HEAO-2)
VLA!!! VLA!!! VLA!!!!!!!!!! GLEE!!! (also i really like how everything on this page is laid out im ngl. have i already mentioned this is a gorgeous book?)
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aaand im at the image limit. theres a few more things i wanted to share, but ill do it some other (near!) time
"Astronaut Thomas P. Stafford, command pilot of the Gemini-9A spaceflight, is photographed during the Gemini-9A mission inside the spacecraft by astronaut Eugene Cernan, Gemini-9A pilot."
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