I'd Like To See Explorer In His Army Uniform, Even Though He's Supposed To Be A 'civilian' Satellite.

Spooky, scary endoskeletons, Send shivers down your spine, Splitting wires will shock your soul, Seal your doom tonight!

a, t or y!!

A for Alejandro Ahn Féahinne (and his bird)!

He's an aloof and mysterious bounty hunter/magician from what is essentially a fictional version of Spain in the 1800s who specialises in eliminating powerful individuals and supernatural entities, hire him if you want a job done but don't mind collateral damage!

Alejandro was found abandoned outside a church as a baby and was raised at the site's orphanage. It's likely that one of his parents was some sort of spirit since he developed an unnaturally high affinity towards magic, had the power to communicate with animals, and could survive way longer without food or water than any human (discovered that last one after getting trapped in an empty well for almost 2 weeks as a kid). Due to his harsh upbringing, he resented most people and things, decided that he was just going to beat stuff up for a living one day and subsequently became a bounty hunter, and a really good one at that! He took down previously untouchable targets and made a name for himself in mere months.

He obtained his bird companion, Tuie, after ransacking an illegal exotic goods market and now they're basically inseparable, she's scarily intelligent and knows how to pick locks and bites on command.

On This Day in 1957

Happy Sputnik Day. On October 4th, 1957 the USSR launched the very first satellite into Earth orbit disjointing countless noses here in the US.

Pictured above is the backup Sputnik that was to be launched should the first attempt have failed. It can be found at the Cosmosphere in Hutchinson Kansas along with many more air and space wonders.

The Outlaw Star / ‘XGP 15A-II’ from the anime, well, Outlaw Star. 🌟 Requested by @pink-catnip​

It’s such a funky and awesome spaceship design and the giant mecha arms were the oversized cherry on top! The massive handgun had me hollerin’.

I’m thinking about how Hubble and JWST technically live-streamed DART’s death 💀 I am imagining them voicing over the footage like “YOOO BRO GOT REKTD GG” 💥💥💥

s!

S for Prof. Samsa (a.k.a. Phoropter Guy or Traveller)!

He's a peculiar foreigner from a place far away who likes to smoke pipes that smell of nutmeg. Strange things tend to happen in his immediate vicinity and every time you see him he always has a different suitcase. Currently, he's writing a dissertation on human culture.

The Devil Himself

A speedy study of a very big rock!

Yeah. Spacecraft personification I'm doing ig

Minotaur I/II rockets peel themselves like bananas during launch and if that ain't the most whimsical shit

the reason they do this is because the first stage is based on the Minuteman missile, which was designed to launch from a climate controlled missile silo. when your launch pad is out in the open in the hot, humid Virginia air, the rocket can actually get damaged by heat and condensation.

the people developing it into an orbital launch vehicle wanted to change as little as possible from the original missile to lower production costs, so instead of changing the structure of the booster or whatever, they just wrapped it in an insulating blanket. to save weight, the blanket gets peeled off by cables during launch. it's actually quite a clever solution!

they did not have to make that shit banana yellow though that ones definitely on purpose. looney tunes ass rocket.