Heading to the moon for the princess!

C'mon, the other Astronaut that went with this guy just has to be a bovine. The cow that jumped ON the moon!

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Indeed, and I'm sure there's also a hyppogriff in the team. Plenty of species deserve to set foot/paw on the moon.

Fantastic level of detail.

Agreed, the penciling / shading is impeccable :3

Scale, this is marvelous!

I wonder how stiff that tail pocket gets when the suit is pressurized. I imagine his couch in the Command Module would have a cutout to accommodate that.

It does, as they needed that anyway to accomodate the (folded) tails of other species. Thank you!

"One small step for hare, one giant leap for lepuskind!"

Admittedly, that was from Neal Armstrong, but it was the first thing that came to my mind.

As always, I envy your artistic talent.

On the way to the moon, the Apollo 11 crew were told to keep an eye out 'for a girl and her rabbit'. >.>

Yep! I discovered that quote only a few days before doing this drawing and it was a very cute find. I always like it when ancient animal related myths find their way into modern imagination.

Nice job. It would makes so radical differences to the snoopy cap as well.

And I just watched Apollo 13 again, last night.

The scene where Lovell dreams about walking on the moon, and then kneels down to drag his fingers through the lunar soil always tears me up.

To touch the surface of the moon....

Lovely piece of art.
It brought tears to my eyes as I remembered that scene while looking at it here, now.

-Badger-

Thank you, I'm flattered to hear that! I've shamefully never seen the movie but I really need to at least in the year of the anniversary.

The movie is one of my favorites.

"Failure is not an option!" became an inspiration for me, and I have tried to live up to that ever since.

-Badger-

Wornderful work. And if could be worse. Think about any species with horns that don't shed. Probably have to cut them off before going up.

Thank you! And yeah, I hear oryxes who dream to become astronauts have it really rough. :-/

You know that opens up the question.... In a true furry world would there be biases like we had with gender roles based on species? For example big large species being pushed towards jobs that need large muscles? smaller nimble species being encouraged to be mechanics, or jewelry craftsmen?

Probably yes, but I think the economy would also be modeled after that. After all being very fit for a specific type of job can be an advantage.

Great Fang, Its Brilliantly Awesome!
Thank you.

Fantastic picture. I hope to live to see the day we return to that dear old lump of cheese in the sky.

Thank you! Me too, space exploration in general has been way underestimated by the public since then. I mean, there's the ISS and orbital telescopes doing lots of things all the time and when it's mentioned at all it's treated almost like everyday news. Not many people seem to stop for a moment to consider what kind of incredible feats are involved.

This is absolutely outstanding.

Just when I was about to make reference to the lunar rabbit.

Surprised anthro creatures haven't really invented a one-size-fits-all-type helmet that can [mechanically] change its shape to accomodate the particular head shape/features of the astronaut in question.

_{My theory is that anthros understand the natural sciences much better than humans do and because of that, are a bit more advanced technologically (when taking into the account of adding another dimension to their human intelligence).}

I'm sure figuring out such a helmet wouldn't be a big problem, the main problem is that room inside space vessels is really really cramped and appendages like a rabbit's ears would be a huge risk of accidents...

I should have explained this a better. :p

Inside his particular helmet would be a channel to curve his ears around so they at least fit comfortably inside and are not being compressed to the point of extreme pain and/ or trauma. Reimagining it now after looking at this again, and it looks like this might be a possibility for how it works (because the helmet is bigger than his head, but is questionable if there's anything to prevent his ears from moving around excessively in there). Also wonder if it functions almost like a big vaccum seal.

Anthro science/engineering is very hard for humans to explain.

The 'bunny hopping' on the moon would come naturally. Though don't do it too hard or he'll go into orbit. >.>

That would be quite funny to see happen though X-D

I'm sure he always wanted to visit the rabbit in the moon!

absolutely wonderful...

V.