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Some sketches from my trip last week

M42: A Mosaic of Orion’s Great Nebula

Credits: Rice U., NASA

Typhoon Maysak viewed from the International Space Station, Expedition 43

Stepping out on the front porch. Astronaut David Scott opens the hatch to check out the view during Apollo 9, March 1969. In this pic taken by fellow astronaut Rusty Schweickart, ‘Gumdrop’, the Command Service Module is docked with ‘Spider’, the Lunar Module. A9 was the 1st flight incorporating all Apollo spacecraft components. The 10 day mission was the 2nd launched by a Saturn V rocket.

Astronaut readjusts to life back on Earth

> Don’t give him a baby for a while.

Female Astronauts in History:

Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to go to space in 1963.

She orbited the Earth 48 times, spent almost three days in space, is the only woman to have been on a solo space mission and is the last surviving Vostok programme cosmonaut.

James Webb Space Telescope image of Pillars of Creation