Pressure release
by stucat
Digital Artist
4 days ago
inspired by a photo on the ISS with a single light source, I thought it fit the relaxing mood of returning from a long space walk
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I immediately wonder what's in the things to do list :o
probably making more legible lists :V
Have you heard of Alan Bean? First artist on the moon, I think you should look up the visual legacy he left us. He had a lot of feeling for depicting where he had been.
A little micro story based on this picture:
Stu backed his life support system into the docking cradle with a series of reassuring clicks. The suit pressure equalized with the surrounding station air. Almost there, almost free.
First the outer EVA visor came off. Then the inner helmet. The first taste of recycled but reassuring station air since early this morning. Then each glove came off with a hiss. Each floated away in its own direction.
He just floated there exhausted, eyes half closed, feet and arms dangling in microgravity. The cooling umbilicals of the suit caressed his body with gentle pulses of water.
The spacewalk had been productive. Two new solar panels replaced and a cooling leak fixed. Yet working in the pressurized suit had been exhausting. The focus of each movement in zero G mentally draining.
“Still wouldn’t trade it for any job in the world,” he said to himself in the stillness.