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Here's another render with the whole thing in frame. The booms are really long.

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I had to cut off the boom with the nuclear reactor so that you can actually see details. It would have been gigantic. Each module is roughly Skylab sized.

Made with Blender.

A space station with two long arms and an approaching space ship

A Soyuz 7K-T docks with the MKBS. This was a Soviet space station concept that would act as a central hub for a whole ecosystem of orbital stations and vehicles that was collectively known as MOK. The modules were planned to launch on N1s.

Goliath vs. Ultralisk: the battle of bad pathing

I've got a lot of saved space images and I want to share more of them, hope that's cool. I'll always make sure to point out which images I post are renders I have created and which are real images I've found online.

From Wikipedia and the Internet Archive

The Shuttle in lurid red

Hubble Space Telescope illuminated in red

HTV with a beautiful aurora taken by Scott Kelly

Lettuce with a pink light.

Red and pink space hardware ❤️❤️❤️

A wine bottle with cats in spacesuits.

Found this wine called Félicette, dedicated to the first (and only) cat launched into space. Had to get it.

That first one is so good.

Excerpts from a NASA/NASA contractor public info publication in my collection. This one, from North American Aviation, was tucked into newspapers across the US ahead of Apollo 4, the first flight test of the Saturn V, in November 1967.

I post one of these in its entirety on my Patreon every Sunday.

Render made with Blender.

A space station with swinging arms stylized to look like an old photo.

The MKBS was a Soviet concept for a massive space station that would act as a central command hub for a whole ecosystem of orbital spacecraft (collectively known as MOK). It would be powered primarily by a nuclear generator and had rotating arms for artificial gravity.

Hey thx :)

Renders made in Blender.

Some renders I made of Mengzhou, China's lunar-capable crewed spacecraft. The second image includes the Lanyue lunar lander.

I'm reading "Secret Sentries in Space" by Philip J. Klass, written in 1970. He mentions an upcoming generation of secret SIGINT satellites based on a Hughes satellite bus, which matches the JUMPSEAT program just declassified this month.

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.

There is no cow level

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

Thank you!

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.

Thank you, glad you liked it!

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.