Astronauts by Steve Pyke

About the project:

For the past two years, Steve Pyke has been involved in a photographic odyssey. The resulting project was triggered by a childhood experience. “I remember in 1969 sitting with my mother and father and watching Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walk on the moon. The memory will never leave me” From it came a desire to meet and photograph the principal characters in this incredible story.

Click on the images to see who’s who.

Work by Danny Schutt. You can find him right here on Tumblr.

Mother Earth Sister Moon by Joanna Malinowska and Christian Tomaszewski 

About the project:

The project explores how the future was imagined under the Communist regimes of the former Soviet Bloc by investigations through the lenses of architecture, music, fashion and style. The project also incorporates other elements related to a diverse range of Eastern Block phenomena, including the Soviet space program, sci-fi film and literature, and a journey to the site of the mysterious 1908 explosion over the Tunguska River Valley in central Siberia.

The research concerning these various elements manifests itself as a giant reconstruction of the suit worn by the first woman in space, Russian astronaut Valentina Tereshkova. This suit pays tribute to the sculpture Hon-en Katedral, an enormous female figure conceived by Niki de Saint Phalle and Jean Tinguely at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm in 1966. 

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Some of what you’ve been missing if you’re not already following space station resident and photographer Col. Chris Hadfield.

Awesome astronaut bedding by Snurk

This super cute astronaut “Tea For Two” pot can be found in my Thinx Gifts store.

Selected work by Alex Cherry

(h/t Hey Oscar Wilde!)

Outer Space Alien & Astronaut Salt & Pepper Shakers (available in my Thinx Gifts store)

Selfies in space

illustrations by Alessandro Gottardo 

The Guardian has assembled a gallery of some of the 4,500 golden age of space exploration pictures that will be up for auction at the Westlicht Auction House in Vienna on November 23.

This is:

a) the crew for the first manned NASA Apollo mission practicing water egress procedures with a full size replica of their spacecraft

b) the most awesome pool party ever

c) all of the above

Answer: C 

Alienation by Graziano Panfili 

Panfili on his work:

How many times we dreamed to change our life, city, job… flying away and being elsewhere! This series of portraits and interviews have been made to people that have big dreams and…a small rocket parked in their backyard.

The concept on which is based my work “Alien-ation”, is resumed in these few words:

“…everyone has his small rocket, propelled in the blue of the outer space with fragments of himself inside…”

Images from Landed by Philippe Lesprit

Imaginary Foundation Art