I Will Be Honest, I Just Thought This Was My Astigmatism Acting Up The First Time I Saw It.

High, autistic, I rlly like space, m space sounds

Craters and Shadows at the Lunar Terminator

Credits: Talha Zia

Flight Commander John Young reviewing checklists aboard Space Shuttle Columbia, STS-1

Neptune

Neptune is dark, cold, and very windy. It's the last of the planets in our solar system. It's more than 30 times as far from the sun as Earth is. Neptune is very similar to Uranus. It's made of a thick fog of water, ammonia, and methane over an Earth-sized solid center. Its atmosphere is made of hydrogen, helium, and methane. The methane gives Neptune the same blue color as Uranus. Neptune has six rings, but they're very hard to see

Geminid Meteors over Chile

Credits: Yuri Beletsky, Carnegie, Las Campanas Observatory, TWAN

"Insertion of astronauts Walter M. Schirra Jr. (foreground) and Thomas P. Stafford into Gemini-6A spacecraft prior to launch."

Date: December 15, 1965

NASA ID: S65-66744

To be fair, a lot of goofy-sounding rocketry/aerospace terminology has a legitimate nomenclatural role beyond just being silly euphemisms.

"Unplanned rapid disassembly", for example, exists as the necessary counterpart to planned rapid disassembly: sometimes a rocket is legitimately supposed to fall apart or blow up, so you need a specific term to emphasise that it wasn't supposed to do that.

Similarly, "lithobraking" was coined by analogy with aerobraking (shedding velocity via atmospheric friction) and hydrobraking (shedding velocity by landing in water), and it does have some intentional applications; the Mars Pathfinder probe, for example, was deliberately crashed into the Martian surface while surrounded by giant airbags, and reportedly bounced at least 15 times before coming to rest.

(That said, aerospace engineers absolutely do use these terms humorously as well, because engineers are just Like That.)

Adhesive color plates for Science Services’ Science Program series booklet Man in Space. Nelson Doubleday - 1965.