Orbit Collection

Skylab in orbit above Earth at the end of its mission, 1974. Creator: NASA
Skylab in orbit above Earth at the end of its mission, 1974. The Skylab space station, first launched in May 1973, and was occupied in succession by three teams of three crewmembers

Four moons of Jupiter, Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto, 1979. Four separate pictures of these moons sometimes known as the Galilean moons taken from Voyager 1

Earth Path Indicator, Mercury 4, 1961. Creator: Honeywell
The Mercury space capsule carried this device, designed by the Honeywell Corporation, which allowed the astronaut to see his orbital track and heading

Nearly full view of Io, one of the moons of Jupiter, 1979. Taken from Voyager this moon was named the pizza moon because of its mottled appearance

Full view of Io, one of the moons of Jupiter, 1979. Taken from the Voyager 1, this moon was named the pizza moon because of its mottled appearance

Jupiter and Io, one of its moons, 1979. This picture was taken by Voyager 1 from a distance of 20 million kilometres. Two Voyager spacecraft were launched in 1977 to explore the planets in the outer

The planet Jupiter, 1979. Taken from Voyager 1 at 20 million kilometres this pictures shows the Great Red Spot, a storm that has been raging for hundreds of years

Four moons of Jupiter. Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto, 1979. Four separate pictures of these moons taken from Voyager 1

Great Red Spot on Jupiter, 1979. Voyager 1s image of a close up of the turbulent region around the Great Red Spot on Jupiter, a storm that has been raging for hundreds of years

Copernican (heliocentric / Sun-centred) system of the Universe, 1708
Copernican (heliocentric/Sun-centred) system of the Universe, 1761. Illustration showing ecliptic and the orbit of the Earth and the planets

Lunar Module Ascent Stage, 1969. Creator: David Scott
Lunar Module Ascent Stage, 1969. The Lunar Module " Spider" ascent stage is photographed from the Command/Service Module on the fifth day of the Apollo 9 earth-orbital mission

President John F. Kennedy, John Glenn and General Davis in Cocoa Beach Parade, 1962. President Kennedy (left), astronaut John Glenn and General Leighton I

Apollo 16 Command and Service Module Over the Moon, 1972. Creator: Thomas Mattingly
Apollo 16 Command and Service Module Over the Moon, 1972. In this photo, the Apollo 16 Command and Service Module (CSM) " Casper" approaches the Lunar Module (LM)

Spider in Earth Orbit, 1969. Creator: David Scott
Spider in Earth Orbit, 1969. View of the Apollo 9 Lunar Module " Spider" in a lunar landing configuration photographed by Command Module pilot David Scott inside the Command/Service Module

Orbital Trajectories Presentation, Huntsville, Alabama, USA, June 28, 1958. Charles Lundquist (right) gives a presentation on orbital trajectories at the Army Ballestic Missile Agency to Hermann

Proposed USAF Manned Orbiting Laboratory, 1960. Creator: NASA
Proposed USAF Manned Orbiting Laboratory, 1960. Concept image of the United States Air Forces proposed Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL)

Apollo 11 Command and Service Modules Photographed from the Lunar Module in Orbit, 1969

Orbite de la Revolution annuelle de la Terre autour du Soleil avec l indication des Saisons
Orbite de la Re volution annuelle de la Terre autour du Soleil avec l indication des Saisons (no. 2), from Tableaux du Systeme Planetaire pub. Paris, 1839

Le Flux et le Reflux (no. 6), pub. 1839. Creator: Auguste-Henri Dufour (1795-1865)
Le Flux et le Reflux (no. 6), from Tableaux du Systeme Planetaire pub. Paris, 1839. Shows the ebb and flow of the oceans in relation to the earths rotation

Eclipses de Soleil et de Lune (no. 5), pub. 1839. Creator: Auguste-Henri Dufour (1795-1865)
Eclipses de Soleil et de Lune (no. 5), from Tableaux du Systeme Planetaire pub. Paris, 1839. Engraved by Auguste-Henri Dufour (1795-1865) French astronomer, after Sigismond Visconti

The Giant Planet and His Great Red Spot, 1935. From The Popular Science Educator, Volume 2, edited by Charles Ray. [The Amalgamated Press, Ltd. London]

The Red Planet Studied Through The Modern Telescope, c1935. From Our Wonderful World, Volume II, edited by J.A. Hammerton. [The Amalgamated Press, Ltd. London]

Theory of the orbit of Mercury, engraving from Astronomicon, published in Venice in 1485

Ptolemic System, 1660-1661. Artist: Andreas Cellarius
Ptolemic System, 1660-1661. The Ptolemaic or geocentric model has the Earth at the centre of the Universe with all the other bodies, including the Sun, orbiting around it

Map of Christian contellations, 1660-1661. Artist: Andreas Cellarius
Map of Christian contellations, 1660-1661. From The Celestial Atlas, or The Harmony of the Universe (Atlas coelestis seu harmonia macrocosmica) by Andreas Cellarius, published by Johannes Janssonius

Astonomers looking through a telescope, 1660-1661. Artist: Andreas Cellarius
Astonomers looking through a telescope, 1660-1661. From The Celestial Atlas, or The Harmony of the Universe (Atlas coelestis seu harmonia macrocosmica) by Andreas Cellarius

Map showing Tycho Brahes system of planetary orbits, 1660-1661. From The Celestial Atlas, or The Harmony of the Universe (Atlas coelestis seu harmonia macrocosmica) by Andreas Cellarius

Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish astronomer, (1660-1661). Artist: Andreas Cellarius
Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish astronomer, (1660-1661). Detail from a map showing the Copernican system of planetary orbits (the Planisphaerium Copernicanum )

Map showing Tycho Brahes system of planetary orbits around the Earth, 1660-1661. From The Celestial Atlas, or The Harmony of the Universe (Atlas coelestis seu harmonia macrocosmica)

Map charting the movement of the Earth and Planets, 1660-1661. Artist: Andreas Cellarius
Map charting the movement of the Earth and Planets, 1660-1661. From The Celestial Atlas, or The Harmony of the Universe (Atlas coelestis seu harmonia macrocosmica) by Andreas Cellarius

Chart describing the movement of the Planets, 1660-1661. Artist: Andreas Cellarius
Chart describing the movement of the Planets, 1660-1661. From The Celestial Atlas, or The Harmony of the Universe (Atlas coelestis seu harmonia macrocosmica) by Andreas Cellarius

An astronomer, detail from a map of the planets, 1660-1661. Artist: Andreas Cellarius
An astronomer, detail from a map of the planets, 1660-1661. From The Celestial Atlas, or The Harmony of the Universe (Atlas coelestis seu harmonia macrocosmica) by Andreas Cellarius

Planeten - Fig. 2. Saturn, c1902
Planeten - Fig.2. Saturn, c1902. From Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, c1902

Music of the Spheres, 1619. The divine musical scales of the planets which German astronomer Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) calculated from the velocities of the planets when closest to

Keplers concept of an attractive force from the Sun - a virtue, early 16th century. Johannes Keplers (1571-1630) idea of gravity by which he hoped to account for his elliptical planetary orbits was

Keplers illustration to explain his discovery of the elliptical orbit of Mars, 1609. Working with data collected by the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe

Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) viewed from space. Aurorae are caused by the interaction of the particles in the solar wind with the Earths magnetic field

Aurora Australis, April 1994. The curtain form of the Aurora Australis viewed from the Space Shuttle Endeavour, part of which can be seen in top right foreground

The Alps from space. NASA photograph
The Alps from space

Copernican sun-centred (heliocentric) system of the universe, 1708. This shows the orbit of the Moon round the Earth, and the orbits of the Earth and planets round the Sun

Transit of Venus, 1639, (1662). Artist: Johannes Hevelius
Transit of Venus, 1639, (1662). Polish astronmer Johannes Heveliuss engraving of Jeremiah Horrockss observations of the transit of Venus, 24 November 1639

Deployment of the Hubble Space Telescope, 1990. The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) was put into orbit from the Space Shuttle Discovery, mission STS-31 on 24 April 1990

Drawing of Hubble Telescope, 1980s. Artists impression of the exchange of information via Hubble, Tracking and Data Relay Satellites (TRDS) and ground stations

Hubble Space Telescope in orbit, 1980s. Artists impression of the Hubble Telescope in orbit over the earth. The Hubble Space Telescope (HST)

Testing the Hubble Space Telescope, 1980s. The telescope is shown being installed in an acoustic test cell. The Hubble Space Telescope (HST)

Polishing the mirror of the Hubble Telescope, 1980s. The Hubble Space Telescope (HST), was designed to see seven times further into space than had been possible before

X-ray image of sun, Skylab, 1970s. This image shows a coronal hole. Skylab was launched on 14 May 1973 and was Americas first manned orbiting space station

False colour photograph of the sun and the moon, c1970s. Taken from the Skylab space station. Skylab was launched on 14 May 1973 and was Americas first manned orbiting space station

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