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NGC 6357 - Cathedral to Massive Stars

The Eclipsed Moon is setting in the sea [OC]

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The Soyuz 11 mission patch.

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The first space station in history, Salyut 1, seen from either Soyuz 10 or, more likely, Soyuz 11.

Two crews visited Salyut 1 between April and June of 1971.  Soyuz 10 launched 23 April to visit the space station, but couldn’t achieve hard dock with Salyut and was forced to abort the mission.  On 6 June, the ill-fated Soyuz 11 made it’s way to Salyut 1, and successfully docked the following day.  The crew spent 23 days aboard the space station before being forced to return to Earth because of problems related to the station, including an electrical fire.  Unfortunately, a faulty pressure relief valve caused the Soyuz reentry capsule to depressurize and the entire crew was killed.  At the time, Soyuz crews were not required to wear pressure suits during reentry, and this was quickly changed following the disaster.

Georgy Dobrovolsky, Victor Patsayev, and Vladislav Volkov remain the only human beings to die in space.

Touchdown! 

A Soyuz spacecraft is seen as it lands with astronaut Shane Kimbrough of NASA and Russian Flight Engineers Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrey Borisenko near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Monday, April 10. Kimbrough, Ryzhikov, and Borisenko are returning after 173 days in space onboard the International Space Station. 

While living and working aboard the space station, the crew members contributed to hundreds of experiments in biology, biotechnology, physical science and Earth science aboard the world-class orbiting laboratory. For example, the Microgravity Expanded Stem Cells investigation had crew members observe cell growth and other characteristics in microgravity. 

Results from this investigation could lead to the treatment of diseases and injury in space, and provide a way to improve stem cell production for medical therapies on Earth. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

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Astronaut John Young breakdancing falling on the moon during the Apollo 16 mission, 1972

The Orion Nebula [2633 x 3972]

Early space station concept art by NASA. 1959.

Sacrifice 

I’m afraid I lost myself

Try to guess what part of the world is it ? Picture by ESA/NASA-A.Gerst [700x467]

3 Stages of the moon

The First Real Photo Of Entire Earth From Apollo 8 In 1968.

The Moon at Apogee and Perigee

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The arcing interstellar bow wave is created by the star Zeta Ophiuchi. The bluish star at the centre is Zeta Oph, a star 20 times more massive and 65,000 times more luminous than our Sun. Credit:NASA,JPL-Caltech, Spitzer Space Telescope.

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