#Cosmonauts

[sovietpostcards]

Yuri Gagarin at volleyball court (1960s)

[omgellendean]

"It's been a year since I loved you," says the Earth, looking sweetly at Gagarin's photo. Illustration by V. Goryaev. Cover of the magazine "Krokodil" April 1962, celebrating the first anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's flight.

In 1962, April 12 was established as Cosmonautics Day.

— LadyIzdihar (@LadyIzdihar) April 12, 2024

[pavelbelyayev]

[mrbeanautopsyvideo]

From left to right: Gagarin, Titov, Nikolayev, Popovych, Bykovsky, Tereshkova, Feoktistov, Komarov, Yegorov, Belyayev, Leonov

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Davis Meltzer

[edwhiteandblue]

March 18, 1965 — Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov becomes the first person to "walk" in space

Cosmonauts Pavel Belyayev and Alexei Leonov spent 26 hours in space during Voskhod 2, the second and final flight of the Voskhod program. The spacecraft was equipped with an inflatable airlock for Leonov's extra-vehicular activity and the capsule's landing in the Siberian wilderness rather than the steppes of Kazakstan led to the development of the TP-82 cosmonaut survival pistol.

Read more about the Voskhod program here!

[chromo-strand23]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY YURI GAGARIN

Would've been 90 today man..

[ducksinspaceadventure]

Happy birthday to Yuri Gagarin and happy birthday to Valentina Tereshkova, the first people in space! Yuri Gagarin was born on March 9, 1934 and was the first man in space, while Valentina Tereshkova was born on March 6, 1937 and was the first woman in space!

I know it's been a while, but I'm posting this bearing in mind that today is also Donald's birthday (in addition to June 9). I certainly love that both Donald and Della in the cartoons and comics love space travel and that they are both astronauts and I would love to see more stuff like that about the two of them as well as the Duck family going into space. Yes, Gagarin also means duck.

[garbagefirelol]

You mentioned a while back you were making additional fanclones of Soviet cosmonauts (Komarov and Belyayev). What do you imagine their relationship with Yuri and the canon Clones (whichever ones you like the most I guess) would look like?

Komarov Belyayev and Gagarin are close/best friends in their own little cosmonaut trio.

Komarov is surprisingly good with the popular kids like JFK and Cleo(much to Yuri's dismay) but struggles to fully adapt to the modern day

Belyayev just tries to be chill with everyone, I feel like he'd best get along with Frida in the modern day.

The whole trio is LGBT but I'm not telling you who's the B and who's the G(LT is, well, obviously Yuri)

THEY'RE ALSO ALL TAKEN... Won't say who tho, mwahaha

Sadly I don't have a lot on them but I really do wanna do more(I say while juggling between clone high, my CHEH comic, and other interests like SDSU and FBACC)

[romanowork]

[itsfullofstars]

[sovietpostcards]

"To Space" by Nikolai Surin (1961)

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⚠️ DON’T START DISCOURSE ABOUT RPF IN THE NOTES!! YOU WILL BE BLOCKED IF YOU DO SO ⚠️

Do you ship it?

Reason:

“Popular perception is that Komarov was willing to go on a suicide mission to prevent Yuri from dying. Now that’s what I call doomed yaoi”

[fionaapplerocks]

Pitchfork: Fiona Apple recorded "Dull Tool" specifically for This Is 40. How did that come about?

JA: I'm a big fan of Fiona's. I asked her to do a benefit a couple of years ago for the Venice Family Clinic, and she did this amazing set, so I got to know her a little bit back then. I sent her the script to this movie, and then one day, out of the blue, Jon Brion said to me, "Fiona recorded a demo for you." I didn't know she would write anything. The song was perfect, and I knew exactly where to put it. She actually recorded a second song that we didn't have a place for in the movie, which is equally as great as "Dull Tool". It was heartbreaking not to put it in, but I'm sure it'll reach people at some point. It's a beautiful song. — Pitchfork interview Judd Apatow

[mightbeadaredevil]

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Robert Maguire