Nick Stevens

NK-33 left, NK-39 right

NK-33, and NK-39 rocket engines.

NK-33 was for the N1, (with the NK-43 high altitude version).
The NK-39 was developed for the advanced N-1F, stage 3 (Block V). It could be restarted.

OK, but be aware it's not a proper scale, just arbitrary numbers.

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"Verifying" on LinkedIn?

They take your data, hand it to 17 companies, and use your biometric face data and passport to train AI.

For a blue tick.

Riley on TechLinked just called the CEO of openAI "Scam Altman"

So that's official now.

Yet be well assur’d
You put sharp weapons in a madman’s hands.

There's a sticker on the base.

Mileships book by Ian McQue and Jim Rossignol

World Book Day, is it? Here’s one the mighty @rossignol.bsky.social and me made earlier

The light and shadow is exceptional!

Great cover by Mark Sexton.

Celebrating the British Interplanetary Society's library on #WorldBookDay2026 - home to thousands of books on space and astronomy and a collection of signed Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter first editions. A literary treasure trove in the heart of London. #Odyssey #arts #culture #books

It really brings out the history of the planet!

Topographic and Visual globes of Mars

Very handy for those working on Mars visualisations!

Separate Visual and Topographic Mars globes.

I bought mine from Sky & Telescope, but I'm sure there are other sources...

Kitbashing industrial equipment together to create spaceships is not a terrible approach.
#space #art by Stanislav Verbitsky.
www.artstation.com/artwork/yk8qaR

President Sandu of Moldova with Codru.

I suspect you don't know, but Mia Sandu, the president of Moldova adopted a stray dog with three legs, called "Codru" (Forest).

#OTD, March 3, 1969 - Apollo 9.

The Lunar Module 'Spider' is sitting in the SLA atop the mighty Saturn V's third stage, about to get its wings in Earth orbit...

...Less than 5 months later, Lunar Module 'Eagle' landed on the Moon.

(For the repurposed Artemis III, read Apollo 9)

This intricate pencil drawing features a large, spherical spacecraft design with a complex array of mechanical thrusters and docking structures at its base.

This illustration features a large, spherical bronze spacecraft with a detailed mechanical infrastructure and several large propulsion thrusters extending from its base.

Titan A.E. (2000): The Titan, art by Will Makra

It was a pleasure working on this cover for @fowlerbrown.bsky.social Please check out his work!

Let me know if you ever restart it, I have a bunch of references you may not have seen.

A rare photo of Jodrell Bank searching for intelligent life on Earth, with disappointing yet unsurprising results.

So...

All "A" and no "I"?

The red Moon in eclipse

Last night’s lunar eclipse as seen from near Los Angeles, California. Stack of 136 frames taken with a Canon EOS R5 and Tamron 600mm lens.

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I haven't done shading in my sketches for more than 25 years. Always felt like it could put the lines at risk of becoming unreadable. It is strange how we creatively change over time.

4-panel comic: Astronomers asking researchers from different departments to help them identify the “little red dots” in JWST images: (1) Entomologists [Person 1 behind easel that is black with red dots on it, looked at by Person 2 with shoulder-length hair.] PERSON 2: Clover mites. (2) Computer Scientists [Person 1 behind easel that is black with red dots on it, looked at by Person 3 with beanie.] PERSON 3: Stuck pixels. (3) Dermatologists [Person 1 behind easel that is black with red dots on it, looked at by Person 4 with ponytail.] PERSON 4: Cherry angiomas. (4) Graphic designers [Person 1 behind easel that is black with red dots on it, looked at by Person 5 with short hair.] PERSON 5: No, those are vermillion, or maybe jasper. Can I see your color settings?

Little Red Dots

xkcd.com/3212/

This is a large radio telescope, painted entirely white; the upper half is its large dish antenna, pointed directly upwards; the lower half is the support tower, positioning structure, and access stairs. The telescope here sits in the New Mexican desert, flat and dry with a low horizon. The sky is blue with a few small clouds near the horizon. On the path at lower left, leading to the telescope, two people stand and observe.

This very large #Round thing is one of the 28, 25-meter (diameter) radio telescopes that make up the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array ("VLA"), about 50 miles west of Socorro, New Mexico [USA]. Two people in the foreground give an idea of scale.

11 October 2016

#BlueskyArtShow #VLA #RadioTelescope

RD-170 chambers waiting for assembly

My acrylic on stretched canvas artwork entitled Barren Rock, Living Light. From my Astronomy Portfolio.

Has anyone else found Blue Sky really glitchy in the last 12 hours?

That would be easy to adapt to the Soviet BOR-4 it was based on...

This is an oldie and it needs a bit of an overhaul. It's the precursor to the Dreamchaser, back when it was the HL-20.