Postcard of the Day

[fflo]

Bert tells me that says "Happy New Year!"  So, not another Christmas card.  :)

 

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[peteralway.livejournal.com]

I remember about Novim Godom cards from the Russian Class I got a D in in my freshman year in college.

The spacecraft at the top left is Vostok, the 1-person craft that carried Yuri Gagarin and later Valentina Tereshkova, the first man and woman in orbit. The middle one is a sort of inaccurate Soyuz, the 3-person spacecraft that was first used in 1967, and is currently the spacecraft that carries crews to the International Space Station. The one to the lower right, in the foreground, is a grossly oversized Sputnik 3, the "Orbital Geophysical Station" loaded with instruments whose results didn't make a splash in the world, because the first US satellite scooped it on the van Allen belts.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Very not-to-scale, hunh. :)

Soyuz has sure been at it a while. It's almost as old as we are!

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

Aye--over 50 years.