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ink-the-artist · 5 months

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Bon Voyage

#''We kissed her nose and wished her bon voyage‚ knowing that she would not survive the flight.''#laika #laika the space dog #soviet space program #the background is heavily inspired by hubble photographs #particularly the older ones #art #illustration #colored pencil #april 14 1958 laika disintegrated upon re-entering the earths atmosphere

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poempaw · 5 months

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specify which and bonus points if you say why!

#warrior cats #some i didnt add bc of space are like #cloud sky storm / wing flight / pool / berry #swirl #tuft #i tried to keep it to the most common ones vs like. idk -hound or -beetle #there will be a part two maybe w these ones i forgor next week or smthn

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humanoidhistory · 4 months

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Inside the Space Shuttle Discovery, 1998.

#space shuttle #discovery #space #nasa #1990s #cockpit #flight deck #aerospace

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theofficialastronomy101 · 5 months

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What a beautiful universe we have!

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thepursuitroom · 1 year

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NASA to Track Space Flights with Help of South Africa’s New Ground Station

A new deep-space ground station being built in South Africa’s semi-desert Karoo area will come online by 2025 to support tracking history-making NASA missions to the moon and beyond, space agency officials said Tuesday.

#Nasa #ground station #south africa #space flights

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frostgears · 8 months

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flight deck

you don't have to tell your handler that you're coming in messy after a bad mission. she's tied into flight ops. she knows.

she's waiting by the flight line before the grease monkeys have all your armor off, with a lubed glove on one hand and two fat purple pills in the other.

"ssshhh, pretty thing," she says. "you did your best out there. now open," she forces the pills to your mouth. "good girl. where's that water bottle… swallow. good."

her hand is already working between your legs, reinforcing her praise. they always detach the armor there first.

the pills help. the pills leave you feeling floaty, detached, enough to ignore what they've done to you to make the armor work. you probably can't climax without them by now, not that your handler would ever let you find out.

a few moments later, you spatter your built-up tension and guilt across the deck. with a sigh, you sink to your still-armored knees. your reflex weapons disarm, automatics finally allowed to take over from your own hair-trigger awareness. they're safe now. you're safe.

the grease monkeys are also safe, emerging from behind blast shields that would not have stopped any but the lightest of your armaments. more for psychological safety, really.

"she done?"

"the fuck do you think, wrenchie?"

"i think you couldn't pay me enough to do your job."

"i don't do it for the pay," you hear your handler say, as your eyelids sink towards closed. "i do it because that thing you're all scared of? she's all mine. and every landing, i get to remind myself, and all of you, and most importantly, her." □

#empty spaces #mech pilot #microfiction #combat doll #flight deck #dollposting

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trutown-the-bard · 2 months

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Good news everyone! Welders in Sheffield found a way to weld two pieces of metal together without needing a third agent! A critical component for creating structurally stable space-faring vessels. A few decades from now this will be regarded as one of the greatest scientific and mechanical discovery of our time.

#space flight #welding #Sheffield

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sol-insidious · 17 days

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