Space Art picturesAdvanced Photoshop Pictures Contest - 16 image entries
Contest Directions: 
Scientific community around the world celebrates 50 years in space. Fifty years ago Russians launched the first satellite into space, starting the space era and the space race against the United States. The first Russian satellite was named Sputnik, which emerged within the Cold War atmosphere and meant as an intermediary step to taking a military missile into space, according to the Sputnik designer Boris Chertok.
To celebrate 50 years in space, take compositions from paintings (drawings or sketches allowed too) and make them happen in space surroundings or on other planets. Some examples are: Mona Lisa posing on the moon landscape, or American Gothic happening on Mars.
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Jackpot: 1st place: $5, 2nd place: $3 , 3rd place: $2
Started: 10/2/2007 6:00:00 AM, Ended: 10/4/2007 6:00:00 AM
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| | 50 years back, when USSR launched first artificial space satellite, the entire world went into shock state in admiration, looking with some bewilderment at already explored space.
However, only now, after 50 years, it is ascertained that the significant launch of space satellite was by no means a part of great plan of erstwhile USSR to prove its superiority over Western countries. On the contrary, this event was simply an unplanned dream flight of one of the Russian scientists. His group quickly designed a space rocket, docked a space satellite to the rocket but the more important thing - they could get the permission from Kremlin to start a new “Space era”.
Flickering light, which the enthusiastic people observed from the Earth, was not the space satellite but second stage of the space rocket. Even the creators of first artificial space satellite of our planet state the arms race between USSR and USA was the stimulus to creation of space satellite.
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