Added 3 new A* pages:Niels had teeth in the storyboards, but when it came time to draw his grinning mug in detail some pages back, I realized he should probably be all gums, given his current condition. So there we are!
~~~~~~~~
I'd successfully avoided the Wikipedia "research" bug for a few weeks, but it got me good last night, and I've condensed the fun-filled nuggets I found about the Soviet "Luna" space program into this photo and factoid-laden forum post. It was the high times of the early space race back then, in 1959, as the first of Luna's 49 missions got off to a typical start: Luna 1 missed its target--the Moon--entirely, and drifted into orbit around the Sun. But those were the days when the Soviet propaganda machine was in its silver-lined prime, and they turned defeat into victory by declaring the strayed probe a new planet; I give you the proud Soviet planet, "Mechta" (actually this is a photo of Luna 2, which successfully hit the Moon, but it looked mostly like Luna 1, with the addition of a few antennae; Luna 1--excuse me, planet Mechta--was--er, is--a slim 361 kilograms):
Hail mighty Mechta, metal planet, communist conqueror of the Sun! So yes there are other amusing old space stories and awesome Soviet probe designs in the aforelinked article on the forum.
|
