Genna-ivanovich - No This Is Not Padalka

my ship. MY SHIP. OTP. MY OTP.

Sergei Krikalev and Alexander Volkov play music on Mir, 1989, and this photo is freakin’ adorable.

Chuvash vocabulary- some adjectives

Adjectives are negated by placing “мар” (mar) after them. So чипер, beautiful, becomes чипер мар, “not beautiful”. You don’t need to worry about vowel harmony here. In Chuvash, adjectives are not declined to agree with nouns.  ватă - Old (of a person) кивĕ - old (of a thing) аслă - older, senior кĕçĕн - younger, junior çамрăк - young çĕнĕ - new пысăк - big пĕчĕк - small ăслă - clever (minimal pair!) ухмах - stupid шултра - large вĕтĕ - tiny хаклă - expensive йÿнĕ - cheap лайăх - good аван - good начар - bad вăйлă - strong (вăй on its own means strength, and adding лă/лĕ makes it an adjective) вăйсăр - weak (by putting сăр/сĕр on the end, we create a word meaning “without x” so “weak” is literally “without strength”) сивĕ - cold. A fairly useful word in Chuvashia honestly. ăшă - warm вĕри - hot нумай - many сахал - few вăрăм - long, high, tall çÿлĕ - tall лутра - short, low тÿрĕ - direct пылак - sweet тутлă - tasty йÿçĕ - sour ырă - good, kind  усал - mean хӳхӗм - beautiful, прекрасный илемлĕ - beautiful кăлтăклă - inadequate (кăлтăк= a mistake, a shortcoming) кăлтăксăр - perfect, impeccable вăтанăç - shy савӑнӑҫлӑ - joyful телейлĕ - happy кăсăк - interesting кукăр - crooked лапчăк - flat  çăмăл - light, easy хытă - hard йывăр - heavy çинçе - narrow, thin, slender  сарлака - wide анлă - wide, open (like a field) сайра - rare тарăн - deep хаяр - sharp, cruel кирлĕ - necessary. This is used like нужен in russian- you can say “мана ручка кирлĕ” for example, as “I need a pen”, just like “мне нужна ручка”  нÿрĕ - damp йĕпе - wet ăнăçлă - lucky, successful алама - dirty, rubbish таса - clean юлхав - lazy There are two ways of doing a comparative in Chuvash. You can use the suffix (та)рах/(те)рех like -er in English- so you could use it if asked to pick between options,  for example- “Мĕнле йÿнĕрех?” “Which is cheaper?” “ку йÿнĕрех/йÿнĕтерех”  “this is cheaper” you use тарах and терех if the word ends in  в, л, м, н, р or й.  The second way is to use the inferior noun in the ablative case (ран/рен/тан/тен) and not decline the adjective. “вăл манран ăслă” would be “he is cleverer than me”. To form the superlative, you don’t decline the adjective, but instead place the word чи in front of it. So to say “my mum is the best!”, you’d say “манăн аннем ЧИ лайăх!”.  By adding -хи after the comparative form, you can make an adjectival noun meaning “the -er one”. So you could take the adjective  “пуян”, make the comparative as “пуянрах” and then add хи as “пуянраххи” to create a noun meaning “the one who is richer”. The same suffix works for non-comparative nouns, but the difference is instead of using х, it reduplicates the final consonant, or if it ends in any vowel other than ĕ/ă, it replaces that vowel . So вăрăм  could become вăрăмми, “the one who is long/high”. Likewise шурă, white, becomes шурри, “the white one”.  By adding the suffix скер, which doesn’t vary. you create a similar thing, but in this case it means “one of the x ones”. So пуянскер would be “one of the rich ones”, and пуянрахскер would be “one of the richer ones"

Some intensifiers чăн - extremely, truly; питĕ, пит, питĕрех - very, extremely, superlatively; ытла, ытах, ытлашши - too, very; майсăр - very, extremely, incredibly; темĕн тĕрлĕ - unusually майĕ çук - indescribably. акăш-макăш - unusally, unbelievably, very

UHHHHHHHHHHHH HAPPY BIRTHDAYY😭💞💞💞🎉👏

Very bad sketch but happy birthday ojiro💕 i dont have time to do a proper drawing of him 😭😭😭😭but i didnt want to miss his birthday

Also, a happy 75th birthday to cosmonaut/flight engineer Alexander Serebrov. He held the record for the most number of spacewalks, 10, until cosmonaut Anatoly Solovyev beat his number with a total of 16 spacewalks. Serebrov contributed to the deigns for the Salyut-6, Salyut-7, and Mir space stations, and a “space motorcycle” named Icarus. He was quite the man!

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Congratulations to Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka who marked his 803rd cumulative day in space on June 28, 2015, breaking countryman Sergei Krikalev’s old record of 802 days. Padalka joins the likes of Yuri Gagarin and Neil Armstrong in the Space Age pantheon, having spent more time off Earth than any human in the history of space exploration.

New Crew Arrives at the International Space Station via NASA https://ift.tt/2sIo8wl

hey! im not that well versed on all things space bc it's a relatively new interest of mine. how come ive seen so many blogs post about not wanting the other nasa logo? you totally don't have to answer, i just saw that you reblogged a post about it :) hope you have a good day!

By the other NASA logo do you mean the worm or the wormball?

And to answer your question, I’m think the logo arguments are pretty much entirely aesthetic. Some people think the worm is dated and ugly, other people love how sleek it looks. Some people think the wormball is a good compromise, others think the aesthetics are clashy (I’m in that boat.)

For reference, here’s some NASA logos. The ones under the cut are a little rare and honestly you don’t have to care about them, they just look cool.

This is the meatball. It’s the original from the 60′s and it’s still in use today. Detailed yet clean. Gorgeous. The swoosh is a tie in with the aero side of NASA and the stars and orbit with space. The serif lettering manages to look classy rather than dated. Even if this isn’t your preferred logo, you have to respect how it’s got the perfect amount of detail to look interesting while also being ca clean design.

This is the worm. It was an attempt to modernize the logo around the start of the Shuttle/Skylab era. If this was for any other agency, I admit the worm styling would be a little dated. But personally, I think this logo brings back some of the enthusiasm of the early Shuttle era, just like the meatball brings back the energy of the Apollo era. It’s striking, it’s recognizable, and it’s one of my favorite worm stylings. (Compare it to SF MUNI’s worm logo, which was so cluttered I, as a local, didn’t notice it said “muni” until I was a teenager.)

This is the wormball. (Wikimedia was giving me trouble so it’s just a transparent background; I actually don’t have this one saved on my laptop for personal aesthetic reasons lmao.) Some people love it, but you will never convince me to. 100% personal preference, though, so if you love it, that’s fine, just keep it away from me. It’s like pineapple on pizza; you either love it or you hate it, but you’ve definitely got a strong enough opinion to argue about it.

This is NASA’s seal. You’ll only ever see it on official documents and things like that. It’s not something that’s displayed very commonly on, say, the wall of a NASA facility, and even less commonly on spacecraft. I believe this has been in use since the creation of the agency.

And, last but not least, I’d like to leave you with how the insignia is displayed on NASA aircraft, because they all. Look. Sick.

When they display the meatball on the rudder of an aircraft, like on SOFIA here, they omit the meatball and stars and display it like this! It looks cool as hell and it looks even better on aircraft where the rudder frames it nicer. (While I was searching around I saw a mockup for a meatballess wormball and it didn’t look awful.) Maybe we should call this the vegan meatball?

It’s also displayed like this on aircraft that were associated with NASA/USAF’s hypersonic research program in the early 60′s. Some pilots from this program went on to become astronauts.

... Including Neil armstrong who flew the X-15 above.

Aircraft from that program also featured a pretty neat rudder: it has this yellow stripe with NASA in a serif font that's unique to this design, as far as I know.

The first photo is Neil's X-15 again, the other is Dick Scobee's X-24B.

Lastly, the worm was plastered unedited onto aircraft during the worm era. It didn't always look good, but it looked too sexy on the X-29 to not include a pic.

(All photos are mine from NMUSAF!)

No that's not how it woRks

By the time Americans arrived on Mir—nearly a decade into its life—the station had become cluttered with used-up and broken equipment and floating bags of trash. During Mir’s lifetime, no adequate remedy was ever developed to deal with the stowage situation. Mir looked like a metal rabbit warren, or, as Mike Foale put it, “a bit like a frat house, but more organized and better looked after.”

International rendezvous in space. The Soviet Soyuz 19 spacecraft approaches the Apollo Command Service Module for docking during the Apollo Soyuz Test Project, July 1975. The historic mission was the 1st joint American/Russian space flight & symbolic of the end of the space race which kicked off with Sputnik back in 1957. The Docking Mechanism of the CSM is visible at the top of the photo. Soyuz 19 spent 5 days & 22 hours in space completing 96 orbits while the Apollo spacecraft orbited 148 times over 9 days.