AeroDorkさんのイラストまとめ

Obsessed with Holloman AFB's High Speed Test Track. The testing sleds are capable of accelerating to Mach 8.6, which allows for materials testing and photography at extreme speeds.

A 1996 @NASA_Johnson concept for 24-hour flights to the Moon used detachable crew modules atop nuclear thermal transfer vehicles. Passengers would complete the full trip to the lunar surface without ever leaving the module. Image by Pat Rawlings and Bill Gleason.

Led Zeppelin performed for one single night in Copenhagen as "The Nobs" to avoid angering Frau Eva von Zeppelin, the granddaughter of Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, who had previously confronted the band about their name and iconography.

In December 1978, NASA sent 4 small probes through the Venusian atmosphere. One of them landed successfully (though unexpectedly) and continued broadcasting for an hour. Part of the project included this beautiful infographic with gigantic brush strokes.

Mars’ Olympus Mons volcano is so tall and large that it cannot be fully seen from the planet’s surface…the curvature of the planet creates a horizon too near for a viewer to perceive the volcano in its entirety.

Soviet plans for the Lun-class ekranoplan never quite...took off.

The Soviet moon program called for a scout Lunokhod landing probe to select a suitable site, then act as a beacon for an uncrewed, backup LK lander. Once safely established, a crewed LK lander with one cosmonaut would land nearby.

Ultimate 1960s intermodal concept travel trifecta:

1) Ekranoplans
2) Rotodynes
3) Atomic Airships

What gallery of 80s Soviet weapons systems would be complete without an ekranoplan?