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  Swiped from FB

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  Photos of the LUN Ekranoplan

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  Astronaut and Senator Mark Kelly on what motivates Russian cosmonauts. Ouch.

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  Yeah, yeah... AI is coming for our jobs.

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  Sea Dragon Diagram

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  This book is a stunning demolition of FaceBook & Snark Fuckerberg in particular. The senior staff treat each other MUCH worse than they treat their users. There's one incident where they send a mid-level manager to Korea to see if she's arrested, If not, it's safe for senior staff to go. Zuckerberg has the emotional maturity of a spoilt 10 year old. His senior people are expected to play his favourite board games when travelling. (They deliberately lose to butter him up) Reco...

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  Seems about right

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  Art by the great Soviet Space Artist, Andrey Sokolov. I'm struggling to understand the vehicle design!

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  The new Soviet Space Substack is out! https://graphicsnickstevens.substack.com/p/n1-and-buran-videos-and-more Lots of video in this one. N1, Buran, Mars 87, Space Suit Testing, and more!

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  Leonov / Sokolov. Towards the Moon.

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  https://vimeo.com/1191521111 Edge rendered animation of the Hubble Space Telescope.

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  https://vimeo.com/221629991 This shows a proposed nuclear version of Soyuz, with 6 boosters to lift the heavier nuclear core above the atmosphere. With 6 boosters you get a Korolev star instead of a Korolev cross! All by me, in #Lightwave3d

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  Almost immediately after his space flight, Gagarin travelled abroad. Czechoslovakia was the first of 27 countries he visited on a goodwill tour.

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  https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2026/may/03/symbols-of-soviet-science-in-pictures Some great photos from The Guardian here. Reaching for the stars: enduring symbols of Soviet science – in pictures The photographer Eric Lusito takes us on a scientific journey through space and time in a book on Soviet scientific institutes

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  An old video of mine, Edge Render of the Energia M rocket, (Baby Energia) All done in #Lightwave3d https://vimeo.com/306756740?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci

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  Image credit: Techniques Spatial" Note the upper stages are not attached! From "Vovan" on Russian forums. From December 20, 1973, to February 6, 1974, a 1M1B mockup was on the left launch pad for testing the 8L launch vehicle. Fueling and defuelling of the mockup's three stages were carried out. The head unit was not needed.

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  Space art by Soviet Artist Andrey Sokolov from his first exhibition - 1959

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  I use Proton for privacy in Email and also their online storage to share files. (Which replaced Filemail after they tripled their prices). I've just tried their video call tool, Proton Meet. What really struck me is that it is better BECAUSE it has less features. It just works.

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  I use Proton for privacy in Email and also their online storage to share files. (Which replaced Filemail after they tripled their prices). I've just tried their video call tool, Proton Meet. What really struck me is that it is better BECAUSE it has less features. It just works.

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  Space art by Andrei Sokolov from his first space exhibition in 1959

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  Working on a Mars crewed rover for a customer. This is based on a mesh I bought at Daz.

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  Seldom seen Buran / AN-225 video from Vadim Lukasevich. See alt-text for full information. Rare video - the second speed run of "Mriya" with "Buran" on PC OK (the landing complex of the orbital ship) at Baikonur on May 12, 1989.

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  Another fine piece of SPace Art by Andrei Sokolov, from his first space exhibition 1959.

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  The other day I mentioned Propton Meet, and how I preferred it to Zoom for having less features and keeping it simple. Plus way better privacy. I was wrong about it being part of the package though I'm on the free version! https://proton.me/meet/pricing And still way better than Zoom.

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  Cosmonauts learning Morse Code! Titov, Gagarin and Tereshkova, Leonov, Belyaev.

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  Apollo Soyuz

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  More progress with the Ed Valigursky Red Sphere Spacecraft. Nearly done modelling...

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  Two precious documents from Vadim Lukashevich I have attempted to clean up, enlarge, and translate them

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  A more hard nosed assessment of Artemis 2. https://jatan.space/moon-monday-issue-271/ And I have to say, I think he's right. The science achieved was tiny.

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  I think the modelling is done on this Ed Valigursky design. Though the surfaces will need adjusting for a final scene. https://vimeo.com/1185054894?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci Legs and engines do not animate, though I have it set up for versions with either or both retracted.