Artwork of undead astronauts? - Or cosmonauts.

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This is for home decor purposes, so I am also looking for aesthetics and print or print-quality.

I have this print already:
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Apollonian Wight, Keith Thompson

and a bootleg of The Madness of Mission Six by Travis Pitts. This one is a little goofy, but the facial expressions redeem it.
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It does not count if it's a vampire who happens to be in outer space; they have to have been an astronaut or cosmonaut first.
 
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Pixy said:
The comic it's from is about a ninja doctor.
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I forgot about the NASAghasts! Those are almost exactly the kind of angry ghost astronauts I am talking about.
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Not yet since they were still warm 'not having lost any body heat due to the vacuum of space insulating them', medics performed CPR on them for a while before declaring death. They are in a sense undead.
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Good point. Mostly dead.
 
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Ramborambo said:
"undead astronauts"
"for home decor"

... do I want to ask?
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I dunno; I realized I kind of have a theme going, so might as well see if anyone has any leads.

If you just search image keywords, you get a bunch of dumb CGI space skeletons; the robots don't have a great understanding of what's visually pleasing to humans.
 
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I hadn't thought about it before this moment but I too have a bit of a fascination with the imagery of dead astronauts. It definitely seems to be a recurrent theme for many artists. I even remember drawing a few myself while I was in high school. I wonder if it is because of the contrast between the tremendous intellectual accomplishment of spaceflight and the fragility of the human body. Despite whatever equipment they may wear, an astronaut is just as mortal as a hunter-gatherer from 200,000 years ago.
 
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Exuvia said:
I hadn't thought about it before this moment but I too have a bit of a fascination with the imagery of dead astronauts. It definitely seems to be a recurrent theme for many artists. I even remember drawing a few myself while I was in high school. I wonder if it is because of the contrast between the tremendous intellectual accomplishment of spaceflight and the fragility of the human body. Despite whatever equipment they may wear, an astronaut is just as mortal as a hunter-gatherer from 200,000 years ago.
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Plus, think about famous naturally-preserved corpses: Old Whitey in Lake Superior; Green Boots on Everest.

If humans get big into space travel, we're going to have a ton of those. A corpse in an unbreached space suit will still turn into soup, but the decades-old wreck of a space-Titanic will be full of flash-frozen corpses bobbing around and never decaying, for YouTube3000ers to film themselves in front of while they urban explore. In space.
 
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User names must be unique said:
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An official equatorial guinea stamp commemorating the death of all three member of Soyuz 11 the only men to ever die in space.
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I get that Challenger wasn't yet high enough to count (since they probably weren't dead until they hit the water anyway) but Columbia burning up on re-entry didn't count as "dying in space" either?
 
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User names must be unique said:
Not yet since they were still warm 'not having lost any body heat due to the vacuum of space insulating them', medics performed CPR on them for a while before declaring death. They are in a sense undead.
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I reread the Wikipedia article about Soyuz 11: abrupt cessation of radio contact at 22:47, automatic landing at 23:16. This stamp depicts opening the capsule, so they dead. Just warm and dead.

It's still a really bold, haunting choice for memorial art, especially on a stamp.

Monke said:
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ArtStation has a few.
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This is nice and ominous, but I'm not feeling a narrative, you know?

sasazuka said:
I get that Challenger wasn't yet high enough to count (since they probably weren't dead until they hit the water anyway) but Columbia burning up on re-entry didn't count as "dying in space" either?
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It figures that there is an autist somewhere who is rigorous about the "died in space" category; I was surprised by that stat, too. It's like that joke: if the crew doesn't die in the thermosphere, it's just sparkling space program fatality.

A brief spurt of research tells me space "starts" 100km above sea level, and Columbia broke up at less than 64km. So that's that, I guess.
 
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