nauticastro

Latest Posts by nauticastro

Neowise under Big Dipper l Petr Horálek via NASA APOD

The summer night glowed; in the field, fireflies were glinting. And for those who understood such things, the stars were sending messages

Louise Glück, from "Midsummer" in Poems 1962-2012

5 0    Y E A R S    A G O

Cygnus Wall Region.

Northern lights photographed from space

Long Tail of Comet Pons-Brooks ©

Terra Keck

"Having orbited the Earth in the spaceship, I saw how beautiful our planet is. Humans, let us preserve and increase the beauty, not destroy it!"

― Yuri Gagarin

i'm not the praying sort, but i'll probably always have a soft spot for the astronaut's prayer

“There is no other home”, Soviet poster, 1986.

I drew a little something for the Hiveworks micro comic summer~

Tumblr

Hiveworks Comics

It's time! Today is the day. Share the comic you've been working on all summer with the tag #MicroComicSummer

Window to the Cosmos

“In the 1970′s the Princeton physicist Gerard O’Neill with the help of NASA Ames Research Center and Stanford University held a series of space colony summer studies which explored the possibilities of humans living in giant orbiting spaceships. Colonies housing about 10,000 people were designed and a number of artistic renderings of the concepts were made.”

From The Public Domain Review, via Boing Boing

Apollo 16 ultraviolet photo of Earth taken from the surface of the Moon [1026x1024]

Soviet "Globus" navigation instrument, a mechanical/clockwork positioning display used aboard Voskhod spacecraft, starting with the first human space flight by Yuri Gagarin in 1961.

gaia by luke jerram

“What were astronauts like when they first returned from outer space? Nurse Dee O'Hara: ‘They have something, a sort of wild look, I would say, as if they had fallen in love with a mystery up there, sort of as if they haven’t got their feet back on the ground, as if they regret having come back to us… a rage at having come back to earth. As if up there they’re not only freed from weight, from the force of gravity, but from desires, affections, passions, ambitions, from the body. Did you know that for months John [Glenn] and Wally [Schirra] and Scott [Carpenter] went around looking at the sky? You could speak to them and they didn’t answer, you could touch them on the shoulder and they didn’t notice; their only contact with the world was a dazed, absent, happy smile. They smiled at everything and everybody, and they were always tripping over things. They kept tripping over things because they never had their eyes on the ground.’”

— Craig Nelson, Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon (via m-l-rio)

wake up babe new JWST image just dropped

Marcus Schinnagel, Astronomic Compendium [1489]

Sun Center, Ingo Swann, 1975

drunken attempts to capture the night sky over møn, denmark

Buzz Aldrin carried this copy of the UN's "Outer Space Treaty" with him on Apollo 11's mission to the Moon.

A small step for man…

(all my gifs are here)

Earth Views

Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket, James Whistler

Astronauts talking about viewing the earth from the moon, from The Overview Effect: Awe and Self-Transcendent Experience in Space Flight