Andrew C. Stewart

The Sun rises over Earth in a postcard illustrated by Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, recalling the 1965 mission when he became the first human to walk in space.

Alexei Leonov was a prolific and talented artist, and drew and painted many pictures inspired by his experiences in space

This particular picture is rather special though, because he drew the first draft for it while in space using coloured pencils he took with him:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/aug/31/first-picture-space-cosmonauts-science-museum-alexei-leonov

The first walk in space coincided with the first art in space. Humans literally can’t not do art

my dude Alexei made some insanely cool space art

As I pulled myself back toward the airlock, I heard Pasha talking to me: “It’s time to come back in.” I realized I had been floating free in space for over 10 minutes. In that moment my mind flickered back for a second to my childhood, to my mother opening the window at home and calling to me as I played outside with my friends, “Lyosha, it’s time to come inside now.”

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Bob Eggleton

From the San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive

MAC REBISZ
Ambition 1 Ascent
Digital

David A. Hardy, “Starship Daedalus”

“The Daedalus is a design study for a starship produced by the British Interplanetary Society, which proposed propulsion of the craft by the explosion of thousands of pellets of deterium, set off by laser beams. In this painting, the starship is seen as it passes Neptune and its moon Triton on its way out of our solar system.” ~FineArtAmerica

Rick Guidace’s concept art depicting the rings of Uranus in polar rotation

Robert McCall

Yuri Gagarin, space exploration and Russian folklore in Palekh style miniatures by Kaleria and Boris Kukuliev, 1980s, USSR

So help me, the first one looks like if Rick Moranis played Captain Kirk

Robert McCall