Plate 191
Space Capsule
The descent module of a Soyuz spacecraft, captured on display and drawn with splats.
- Family
- Photoreal
- Origin
- Captured
- Habit
- Diurnal: kept on the page
- Voice
- Silent
- Licenses
- CC BY 4.0, MIT, BSD
How to play
Tap it for a ripple and a small hop; drag to turn it.
Notes
A Soyuz has three parts, and only this one comes back: the other two are let go before re-entry. Its shell takes the heat of the fall through the air, which is why it is scorched, and it lands under a parachute.
Tap it and a ripple runs over the capsule as it hops on its cradle. Drag to circle it and look at the round hatch, the burned and pitted skin, and the frame it rests on.
Sources and credits
| Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|
| Soyuz TMA-14, Seattle WA (XGRIDS PortalCam)Converted to SOG, turned upright, recentered and scaled; the exhibit's rail, panels, wall, and floor cropped away, the capsule kept on its cradle; loose floaters removed. | Paolo Tosolini | CC BY 4.0 |
Libraries
- MIT, BSD
- WebP codec (splat-transform, with libwebp)