Michael Najjar – ignition, 2019, Hybrid photography, archival pigment print, aludibond, diasec, custom-made aluminium frame
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Koralb-Sputnik 4 aka Sputnik 9, launched March 9, 1961
First flight of the Vostok spacecraft, carrying the dog Chernushka, some mice, a guinea pig, and a mannequin named Ivan Ivanovitch. The next flight of a Vostok, a month later, carried Yuri Gagarin.
Человек и Вселенная (Man and the Universe) by Alexei Leonov and Andrei Sokolov, 1976. Artwork by Andrei Sokolov, whose paintings was carried into space in 1971 on Soyuz 11 and transferred to the space station Salyut I for the first orbiting art exhibition. (Sadly, the Soyuz 11 crew died on re-entry when their capsule depressurized and the Salyut I station was allowed to deorbit and crash into the Pacific while the capsules were being redesigned)
Author Alexei Leonov was the first person to “walk” in space in 1965 and led the Soviet crew on the joint Apollo-Soyuz mission in 1975. He is also an accomplished artist.
Museum of Cosmonautics in Kaluga, Russia
Soyuz is raised to vertical at the launch zone European Space Agency, flickr.com
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Soyuz
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Soyuz TMA-05M set for Launch
The Soyuz TMA-05M crew consisting of Sunita (Suni) Williams, Yuri Malenchenko and Aki Hoshide is set to launch at 8:40 a.m. Kazakhstan time (10:40 p.m. EDT/4:40 a.m. CEST). The launch will be covered live by NASA TV from 9:30 p.m. EDT tonight.
The launch today (or tomorrow, depending on where you are) coincides with the the launch of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project 37 years ago.
Godspeed to the crew, may they safely reach their home in the sky.
Source: nasa.gov
Soyuz on its way to the pad.
Source: secure.wikimedia.org