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Today is a pink or purple day at Color my World Daily and the theme at Smile on Saturday is mini figures. This is the perfect theme since Mr. Egg just made it into the aspiring astronaut team ! He is very proud and can’t stop smiling while wearing his astronaut helmet and standing in a row with other future astronauts. Of course, the training to become an actual astronaut is long and very difficult… And Mr. Egg will have to train very hard and maybe even lose some weight before going to space (but this is secondary since we all know that weight don't matter in a zero gravity situation)… However, right now, all Mr. Egg can think about is how happy he is, standing among all those mini figures. I hope this « first day » at astronaut school picture will make you smile !
Those mini Lego figures are from my husband’s collection. Now, my sons play with them… and sometimes I do too, especially if it is for a Flickr challenge.
Have a beautiful day ! Mucho, mucho amor for you all !!
Thank you so much for all your lovely comments / favs/ general support / happy thoughts!! Stay safe and well!!
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Astronauts call the suit they wear during the launch and the return to Earth the 'pumpkin suit' because it's bright orange. This suit protects the astronauts during launch and landing in emergencies.
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Astronauten noemen het pak dat ze dragen tijdens de lancering en de terugkeer naar de aarde het 'pompoenpak'. omdat het feloranje is. Dit pak beschermt de astronauten tijdens de lanceren en de landing in noodgevallen.
"Dedicated to those pioneering spirit inspired generations to explore beyond existing boundaries in a never-ending quest for knowledge."
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U.S. Space & Rocket Center
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Vaduz, Liechtenstein
2024
Olympus XA4 macro, Zuiko 3,5/28 mm
Eastman Double-X 5222, Kodak D-76 (1+1)
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SE5 1+10, +1 f-stop, 6:40 min
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This AI generator is not well known either, but it has created a very nice image from Emma's prompt. And the kitten's ears are safely inside the helmet, and the helmet airtight... Unlike with a number of other generators that completely ignored the importance of a suit being airtight in space...
With this I've tried Emma's prompt with a dozen AI generators now available on the DeepDreamGenerator.com website, for which I'm paying US$10 a month, and which allows me to create about 5 images a day. About a year ago this website had only 4 or 5 image generators available. Today 20 are available. Though 8 of these (that require only 4 points of energy) are not able to follow complex prompts as written by Emma for this concept in space.
Dr Jackie Bell ~ Astronaut Lady ~ The Science Museum ~ London ~ England ~ Saturday 20th January 2018.
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So yesterday I got to spend the afternoon with Dr Jackie Bell one of the participants of the BBC2 television show "Astronauts ~ Do You Have What It Takes?" in the Science Museum in London, this is her story here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIQBd1BbR4E and a great time was spent by all.:)
Have a Fabulous Sunday Y'all..:)
National Museum of Nuclear Science and History, Albuquerque
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We got to meet Josh at our Library in town when he came in and spoke on his trip to space. I made a collage of a picture of us and one he took of space that he displayed and you can see where I've typed Chx and that is Charlevoix from space. You can see Lake Michigan, our little round lake and Lake Charlevoix clearly.
NASA astronaut Josh Cassada retired Oct. 1, after 11 years of service to the agency across multiple programs, including 157 days in space and three spacewalks. Cassada also is a retired United States Navy captain and naval aviator with more than two decades of service.
Cassada served as pilot of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission and Expedition 68 flight engineer aboard the International Space Station, executing myriad maintenance, contingency, and upgrade activities inside the station while also contributing to hundreds of experiments and technology demonstrations. His three spacewalks outside of the orbiting laboratory totaled more than 21 hours, successfully installing a pair of International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Arrays (IROSAs) to boost the station’s electrical capacity. Cassada, alongside crewmate NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, also assembled the infrastructure for a future IROSA installation and fully restored a malfunctioning legacy solar array.
Old space suit designs - Kennedy Space Center Florida
John Glenn 1921-2016 the last of the original Mercury Seven pioneers.
RX100M3 9mm | f1.8 | 1/50 sec | ISO 6400
An astronaut aboard the International Space Station photographed a sunset that looks like a vast sheet of flame. With Earth’s surface already in darkness, the setting sun, the cloud masses, and the sideways viewing angle make a powerful image of the kind that astronauts use to commemorate their flights.
Thin layers of lighter and darker blues reveal the many layers of the atmosphere. The lowest layer—the orange-brown line with clouds and dust and smoke—is known to scientists as the troposphere, the layer of weather as we experience it. It is the smoke and particles of dust in the atmosphere that give the strong red color to sunsets.
Astronauts see the atmosphere like this roughly every 90 minutes, as they view sixteen sunrises and sixteen sunsets every day. Astronauts often comment on how thin and fragile Earth’s atmosphere seems.
Astronaut photograph ISS049-E-49442 was acquired on October 27, 2016, with a Nikon D4 digital camera using a 240 millimeter lens, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations Facility and the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, Johnson Space Center. The image was taken by a member of the Expedition 49 crew. The image has been cropped and enhanced to improve contrast, and lens artifacts have been removed.
Image Credit: NASA
Caption: M. Justin Wilkinson, Texas State University, Jacobs Contract at NASA-JSC
A real astronauts suit (waterproof and machine washable!). This one used to belong to a good friend of mine. NOTETOSELF: I need a new nametag.
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Yinka Shonibare CBE (Verenigd Koningkrijk 1962)
Een eenzame figuur draagt een net vol spullen op zijn rug: een theepot, Domino, een lamp – haastig bij elkaar geraapt. De nomadische astronaut is op zoek naar een nieuw huis op een veilige planeet. Yinka Shonibare vraagt ons om stil te staan bij de gevolgen van klimaat-verandering en de gedwongen migratie die daar in de toekomst steeds vaker mee gepaard zal gaan.
A lone figure carries a net bulging with belongings – a teapot, Dominoes, a lamp – hastily gathered. The nomadic astronaut is in search of a new home on a safe planet. Yinka Shonibare invites you to reflect on the far-reaching effects of climate change and the forced migration it will bring more and more in the future.
When astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti received her first assignment — to spend a record 200 days aboard the International Space Station — she knew she wanted to document the opportunity of a lifetime through photography. The resulting images are breathtaking.
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Astronaut John Young, who walked on the Moon during Apollo 16 and commanded the first space shuttle mission, died Friday, Jan. 5, 2018, at the age of 87 from complications of pneumonia. Young began his impressive career at NASA in 1962, when he was selected from among hundreds of young pilots to join NASA's second astronaut class, known as the "New Nine." Young is the only agency astronaut to go into space as part of the Gemini, Apollo and space shuttle programs, and the first to fly into space six times.
In this image, John Young, astronaut and Navy veteran, salutes the U.S. flag at the Descartes landing site during the first Apollo 16 extravehicular activity (EVA-1). Young, commander of the Apollo 16 lunar landing mission, jumps up from the lunar surface as astronaut and Air Force veteran, Charles M. Duke Jr., lunar module pilot, took this picture.
Image credit: NASA
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