Element115Art

There is no cow level

Next time I reread Dune I'm going to imagine it with the Moebius costumes.

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All my stories are up in my LinkTree if you need to find them in one place.

You have to expand the first one to see it

Images from Wikipedia and the Internet Archive

Previously: bsky.app/profile/elem...

A landscape with a mysterious glare

A bright sunrise in orange

Mysterious rainbow arcs

The Shuttle over a low-fi aurora

Psychedelic Astronaut Photography II

My favorite part of the landing sequence is how Shepard is cool as a cucumber until they pitch over and then he gets so excited to see the right craters out the window. I love those human moments.

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And the planet itself hasn't hurt me, but people's attitudes about it have hurt us all.

Starts on pg. 90 of the issue:

www.nocturnezine.com/issue-5

A colorful topographical map of Mars.

Last year I wrote and published a story in Nocturne Magazine called "You Who Dwell in the Dust," which is informed by my (mostly negative) feelings about crewed Mars exploration. I wanted to share it again. Link below.

Nope, haven't joined up.

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That's done in GIMP

Made with Blender.

The MKBS would be launched in parts by N1s. Both modules were roughly the size of Skylab. Linking them was a segment that could rotate, providing a small amount of artificial gravity to two cylindrical modules. Attached to that on a boom would have been a nuclear reactor.

MKBS, a space station with two big modules, spinning modules on arms, and a metallic generator on a boom.

MKBS, a proposed Soviet space station cancelled in 1974. This was to be the centerpiece of a broader initiative called MOK, which envisioned a whole system of orbital complexes with the MKBS acting as the central hub for crew transfers and control.

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That graphic is really good. Bravo to whoever put that together.

Stunning!

Absurdly excited for this mission.

Oh neat! With the echo he puts on it that sample really does sound like a launch countdown

Some others: I've never been able to confirm these but I'm fairly certain the "The Number Song" by DJ Shadow samples an Apollo launch countdown and "9:39" by Global Communications samples an Apollo transmission.

Thank you very much! It's so fun to make, and I'm glad I've found an audience for it.

Made with Blender.

A spaceship in front of Venus. The spaceship has a central ring and modules hanging from it on a wire.

A spaceship above Venus. The spaceship has a central ring and modules hanging from it on a wire.

A spaceship in front of Venus. The spaceship has a central ring and modules hanging from it on a wire.

The Virgo, my concept for a crewed Venus exploration vessel in the 2100s, based on the astrological glyph for the planet. The whole structure is spun, and the tether increases the overall radius for the inhabited sections while saving mass.

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Made with Blender.

A Soyuz against the atmospheric limb.

The 7K-T flew thirty times, including the first Interkosmos flights. It was also fitted with solar panels again for special missions: once for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, once for the ASTP test flight, and twice for standalone science missions that did not dock to a Salyut.

A Soyuz spacecraft with antennas instead of solar panel wings.

From 1973 to 1981 the Soyuz flew without solar panels. The model, known as the 7K-T, was a complete redesign of the spacecraft following the Soyuz 11 tragedy. Because the spacecraft would be used to ferry crews to the Salyut, it relied on battery power instead of the solar panel wings.

Reading The Six by Loren Grush was great for a lot of reasons, but I especially enjoyed learning more about Judith Resnik and her career. She was such an interesting person and I feel like the disaster has overshadowed that unfortunately. Same for all the crew really.