#Vostok

[ducktoonsfanart]

Donald Duck as cosmonaut as Yuri Gagarin and Della Duck as cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova - Tribute to Space Race and gift for my friend - Ducktales 2017

I wouldn't have even drawn this, if this wasn't intended as a gift for a friend of mine who really likes ducks in space adventures and spacesuits.

I drew this on the occasion of the anniversary of when the first man, Yuri Gagarin, went into space on April 12, 1961, with the Vostok 1 rocket, and since then the journey of man in space begins. And I drew Donald Duck as a redraw from the comic cover of Topolino comics from 2015, drawn by Alessandro Perina, in which Donald Duck is like Yuri Gagarin, but in the then Soviet spacesuit (Vostok 1 spacesuit). Yes, I drew it to be close to Ducktales 2017 style, but in my own style, since I think somehow Ducktales 2017 suits that kind of space action. Yes, behind Donald you can see the rockets and aircraft of the Vostok program, as well as the planet Earth. By the way, the surname Gagarin means wild duck, so it is not surprising that the first man in space was a duck. XD

The next drawing is a redraw of Della Duck as Valentina Tereshkova, who flew in space around planet Earth on June 16, 1963 in the Vostok 6 rocket and became the first woman in space. Yes, I have a bit of a problem to draw Della Duck as a whole in a spacesuit, so I just sketched her, and somehow it fits her role to be like Valentina, and Della always wanted to be an astronaut, otherwise the word astronaut means a star sailor so it does matter that Donald is an astronaut too. Such a brother, such a sister. Behind it you can see the Vostok program rocket as well as the stars and the crescent moon. By the way, both Donald and Della, like Yuri and Valentina, wear the USSR mark in Cyrillic on their space helmets, since they are from the Soviet Union (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). And Della is in Ducktales 2017 style, but in my own way.

I hope you like these drawings and these ideas and and feel free to like and reblog this and please don't anyone copy these same ideas of mine without mentioning me. Thank you! Happy first space flight day!

Also this is my gift for my friend who is a fan of space ducks and I wish him a happy birthday dear @ducksinspaceadventure! I hope you like this!

[histonics]

[toaarcan]

One of my favourite spaceflight facts is that, due to some heavy technicalities on what the universally accepted definition of an astronaut is, and the intense secrecy surrounding the Soviet Union at the time, the entire Vostok program, AKA the thing that first took humans into space, technically doesn't count and everyone just agrees to ignore that.

Submitting my claim that Vostok is actually the cutest spacecraft ever, which is an entirely normal statement.

When they sat down and defined what counts as a successful manned flight, part of the requirements included the astronaut(s) landing in the vehicle. But Vostok didn't do that. Instead, the Vostok cosmonauts ejected from the vehicle after re-entry and parachuted to the ground separately. This continued until the later Voskhod missions, where they ripped out the ejector seat so they could fit more guys inside (and on the second one, one guy and an inflatable airlock so one of them could do the first spacewalk), and put in a rollcage so that landing inside the vehicle wouldn't turn them to goo.

But by the time Voskhod 1 blasted off from Baikonur, all of the Mercury flights had already been flown, so this means that, according to the rules, America technically completed the first manned space flights.

Another technicality was added to the list a couple of years back, when the guys that make the rules futzed with said rules in order to deny Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson astronaut status, because fuck 'em. Now, in order to be an astronaut, you have to actually do something on the flight, otherwise you're just a passenger. And many of the Vostok flights were indeed more like passengers than crew. The Vostok spacecraft is pretty much a big satellite with a passenger compartment and a re-entry module, and it's fully automated.

So why didn't these technicalities get called out? The USA and USSR were never shy about trying to embarrass each other, or make each other look foolish on the world stage. One of the biggest reasons why we know the Moon Landing Conspiracy Theory is total stupidity is that the USSR congratulated NASA on the successful landing, because if it had been recorded on a soundstage in Area 51, the Soviets would've been the first to call bullshit.

Well, part of it is just that the Americans didn't know about the specifics of the Vostok program at the time. Whereas the American space program was a very public affair with cheering crowds showing up to watch every launch, the Soviets were much, much more clandestine than that. Baikonur is in the middle of the Kazakh desert, and the Soviets were keen to lie about anything that went wrong.

When their attempt at a moon rocket, the N1, endured four successive failures on launch, mostly caused by the Soviets lacking the funding and the facilities to properly test the thing, and instead just had to launch fully built rockets and hope they worked, the Soviets simply scrapped the last two and declared that they'd never intended to go to the Moon and were all about Earth orbit instead.

The N1 was actually more powerful than the Saturn V, but because it never reached operational status and the Soviets preferred to pretend it didn't exist, the Saturn V remained the world's most powerful rocket until Artemis 1 flew last year. A similar situation is happening now, with SpaceX's Superheavy being more powerful than the SLS, but also being basically a giant bomb at the moment.

Most Americans had no idea how Vostok worked, and didn't even know what it looked like. They didn't get to see what a Soviet spacecraft actually looked like up close until the Apollo-Soyuz mission in 1975.

Behold, the setting for the most expensive handshake in history.

By the time the full details came out, the world had known that the Soviets did it first for decades, and challenging that doesn't really do much for anyone besides the people that want to go "Um, ackchully" about everything.

Additionally, the rules weren't even written yet at the time, so there's even less reason to start changing shit up now. Vostok might be technically breaking the rules, but nobody cares, and downplaying the immense technical achievements of Sergei Korolev, Yuri Gagarin, and everyone else that worked on the early Soviet spaceflights on account of a rules quirk that wasn't even written yet is just kinda dumb.

(Random sidenote, Korolev was the chief designer of much of the USSR's early spacecraft, including the R7 rocket that carried both Sputnik and Vostok into space, and still carries some of the Soyuz flights to this day. And, like pretty much every major achievement of the USSR, he wasn't Russian. He was, in fact, Ukrainian.)

[9misoundsystem]

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[olgasdlov]

[scavengedluxury]

Cosmonaut play, 1962. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

[justdealingwithsomeissues]

the Soviet Super Soldiers get their own big ol' special issue... no clue who thought these guys were popular enough for this...

[xlockscreenx]

Smiling Yuri Gagarin Lockscreens 😩😳❤️

[zalia]

I visited the Iron Temple to decrypt an engram the other night, and someone had opened the gate that lets you explore Vostok Observatory and further down the mountain! Decided to record the journey back up, showing the route, the skyline, Vostok and the differences between D1 and D2!

[sophiemariepl]

Tbh I wish that people acknowledged that the supposed “anti-colonialism” of the USSR actually led to the deprivation of the POC in Russia of their own voice and the ability to stand up against white Slavic (“russkiye”) Russians.

The fact that you don't hear about racism in Russia as much as you hear about Western racism does not mean that the issue is non-existent in there. In fact, it is huge and it is deadly, as now Russia uses it's POC as cannon fodder in the invasion on Ukraine. Tuvan and Buryat soldiers are used for positions which are deadly to them. A loss of one Buryat or of one Tuvan is not equal to a loss of one “russkiy” white Slavic Russian. There are 111 million white Slavic Russians. In case of Tuvans and Buryats, it's only max. 200 thousand. If this is not systemic racism to you, idk what is.

The problem is that the USSR led to the isolation of POC in Russia from the rest of the world's decolonization movements. Because of that, POC in Russia are still stuck in a limbo - between the colonial “Russian World” (Russkiy Mir) and becoming even more marginalized in their own land. Mind you, the collectivization led to nomadic and indigenous people in Russia losing ties with their natural habitats and way of life.

[brontios-helm]

Destiny 2: Stormy Horizon

[theforsakenprince]

Vostok

[megachirottera]

Buon giorno.

Approfitto della traduzione di Attività Solare di questo articolo pubblicato su joannenova, nel quale ancora una volta viene ribadito il fatto che è la temperatura a "muovere" l'anidride carbonica, non il contrario.

«La conclusione è che l’aumento delle temperature fa aumentare i livelli di carbonio. Il carbonio può ancora influenzare le temperature, ma queste carote di ghiaccio sono neutre su questo. Se entrambi i fattori si provocassero un aumento significativo dell’altro, il feedback positivo diventerebbe esponenziale. Vedremmo un effetto serra incontrollabile. Non è accaduto. Qualche altro fattore è più importante dell’anidride carbonica, oppure il ruolo del carbonio è minore.»

[21chemicalfalloutdays]

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*top 10

[shelf-days]

Суета

04.09.2022

Со сменой работы и свадьбой совсем забыл сфотографировать свои новые часы!

Когда у меня суета и времени ни на что не остаётся я захожу на сайт:

И покупаю там немного Командирских., или Амфибий)

Вот эти с металлическим циферблатом, оч красивые!:

Ношу радуюсь! И всем рекомендую, кста, они в ценовом сегменте Свотч, и Свотч конечно норм часы, и у меня есть кайфовые прозрачные Свотчи, но они как Макдаковские бургеры — быстро конечно и вкусно и точка, но приготовлено роботами и в бесконечном количестве, никакой индивидуальности.

Востоки делают руками, в Чистополе, и я один их ношу!

Я уникальный за десять тысяч рублей, и без батарейки!)

Хотя, наверное, да — я передумал, никому не рекомендую, носите нахуй Касио или вообще на телефоне время смотрите)

[olgasdlov]

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