Stransky Lubos

1969: Soviet Lunar Module.

Liftoff of Starship on its twelfth flight test.

Minimal System Requirements

🚀 #OTD in 1961, the Soviet #Venera1 probe made history as the first man-made object to approach #Venus. Passing within 100'000 km of the planet, it collected crucial scientific data & laid the groundwork for future missions. #RussiansDidItFirst

German police officers testing early portable wireless radio equipment, likely around 1924–1925.

Happy 82nd Birthday to George Lucas 🎂

Jupiter, photographed by Voyager 1 over 10 days Audible sound is the recorded electromagnetic vibrations of Jupiter, later converted into sound.

The Mi-26 makes the Mi-35 Hind look like a toy. Absolute flying giant.

Long Wave service of BBC R4 to close 27th of June 2026... ei7gl.blogspot.com/2026/05/long-w…

The Vostok spacecraft model in the Cosmos Pavilion at VDNKh, Moscow, Russian SFSR (1965). Photographer: N. Semyonov

Good old Lan parties where people lugged CRTs and heated up the entire floor

First full stack of Starship V3

An instrument that sounds like human voices.

The OK-KS was a static and structural (non-flying) testbed for the Soviet Buran space program, completed in August 1983. Unlike the flying models, the OK-KS was used at NPO Energia to validate electrical systems, software, telemetry, and pneumatic-hydraulic tests. 📸🚀

this Czechoslovakian-made light bulb that lasted from 1990 to 2022 without burning out

Earthrise over the moon, captured by Japan's Kaguya lunar orbiter

Visualization of a magnetic field

Radio Pamela will doing a Broadcast Saturday night ( 9/5/26 ) 22.00 to 00.00 hours BST British Summer Time ( 21.00 to 23.00 hours UTC ) On 6940 Khz.

KJR Seattle 1926. Two self-supporting towers supported the characteristic flat-top “T” wire antenna of the era.

BASIC launched on this day in 1964.