Little Planet Soyuz

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 06/15/2018 at 11:24 • Filed to: spacelopnik

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Today’s !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . Description after the jump.

Explanation: !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , a large rocket bids farewell to this little planet. Of course, the little planet is really planet Earth and the large rocket is a !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! rocket. Launched from the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! in Kazakhstan on June 6 it carried a Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft into orbit. On board were !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! Expedition 56-57 crew members Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos, Serena Aunon-Chancellor of NASA and Alexander Gerst of ESA. Their spacecraft successfully docked with humanity’s orbiting outpost just two days later. The little planet projection is the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! mosaic of images covering 360 by 180 degrees, captured during the 2018 !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! .

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KnowsAboutCars > ttyymmnn 06/15/2018 at 11:55

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Cool

Chariotoflove > ttyymmnn 06/15/2018 at 12:26

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ttyymmnn > Chariotoflove 06/15/2018 at 12:47

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That’s fantastic. BTW, if you missed it, there is an animated adaptation of The Little Prince that is absolutely wonderful and well worth your time if you’ve never seen it. We caught it on Netflix last year.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1754656/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Chariotoflove > ttyymmnn 06/15/2018 at 13:24

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I may have. I’ll have to show it to my girl. My dad read the book to us when I was little, and then in college, I read it in French.

ttyymmnn > Chariotoflove 06/15/2018 at 13:40

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Saint-Exupéry sounds like a guy I would have enjoyed having a beer with. There are lots of photos of him, but this one is my favorite.

Chariotoflove > ttyymmnn 06/15/2018 at 13:45

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Oh, definitely. What a life. Tragedy, success, adventure, and through it all, he never gave up.