Spacecraft aesthetic

Remembering Apollo 8 - NASA release showing an artist concept of the Apollo 8 spacecraft orbiting the moon.

pixel art by Martin Melin made in Mac Paint, 1985 (via iainclaridge.net)

SpaceX conducted its second orbital launch attempt with Starship on Friday, and while the mission was a success, the launch did end in a ball of flames.

iss054e000136 (Dec. 14, 2017) --- The Soyuz MS-05 spacecraft that brought home Expedition 53 crew members Randy Bresnik of NASA, Sergey Ryazanskiy of Roscosmos and Paolo Nespoli of the European Space Agency, is pictured moments before undocking from the Rassvet module.

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NASA on Instagram: "Window seat, please. 💺⁣ ⁣ This view from a window on the SpaceX Dragon Freedom spacecraft looks out at Baja California Sur and the Gulf of California as it was docked to the International Space Station (@iss) orbiting 261 miles (420 kilometers) above the Pacific Ocean.⁣ ⁣ This Dragon spacecraft journeyed to the @iss to deliver the #Crew5 space travelers to the orbiting laboratory.⁣ ⁣ Imagine you had a window seat to anywhere in the universe. Where would you want to go?⁣…

Photos of SpaceX Starship by Cosmic Perspective

50 years tomorrow Apollo 8 lifted off from Kennedy Space Center on a seven-day mission to orbit the moon 10 times. It was to be the first time humans traveled to the moon. Its commander, Frank Borman, thinks it ended the space race.