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Background imageSolar Power Collection: Noordungs Space Station Habitat Wheel, 1929. Creator: NASA

Noordungs Space Station Habitat Wheel, 1929. Creator: NASA
Noordungs Space Station Habitat Wheel, 1929. Depiction of a space station habitat wheel. Hermann Potocnik (1892-1929), also known as Herman Noordung

Background imageSolar Power Collection: Pathfinder aircraft test flight, USA, July 27, 1995. Creator: NASA

Pathfinder aircraft test flight, USA, July 27, 1995. Creator: NASA
Pathfinder aircraft test flight, USA, July 27, 1995. The Pathfinder was one of several unmanned aircraft being evaluated under NASAs Environmental Research Aircraft and Sensor Technology (ERAST)

Background imageSolar Power Collection: Atlantis Docked to Mir, 1995. Creator: NASA

Atlantis Docked to Mir, 1995. Creator: NASA
Atlantis Docked to Mir, 1995. This view of the Space Shuttle Atlantis still connected to Russias Mir Space Station was photographed by the Mir-19 crew on July 4, 1995. Cosmonauts Anatoliy Y

Background imageSolar Power Collection: International Space Station, March 2009

International Space Station, March 2009. Backlit view of the ISS with solar array

Background imageSolar Power Collection: Solar Power Satellite, 1976. Creator: NASA

Solar Power Satellite, 1976. Creator: NASA
Solar Power Satellite, 1976. This is what an artist envisioned the Solar Power Satellite would look like. Shown is the assembly of a microwave transmission antenna

Background imageSolar Power Collection: Three-Radial-Module Space Station Concept, 1960. Creator: NASA

Three-Radial-Module Space Station Concept, 1960. Creator: NASA
Three-Radial-Module Space Station Concept, 1960. This three-radial-module space station concept was intended to utilize Apollo hardware to deploy the station and to transfer crews to and from orbit

Background imageSolar Power Collection: Roof Space Station Concept, 1984. Creator: NASA

Roof Space Station Concept, 1984. Creator: NASA
Roof Space Station Concept, 1984. Johnson Space Center " roof" concept for a space station. The " roof" was covered with solar array cells

Background imageSolar Power Collection: Model, 1: 5, Hubble Space Telescope, 1983. Creator: Lockheed Martin

Model, 1: 5, Hubble Space Telescope, 1983. Creator: Lockheed Martin
Model, 1:5, Hubble Space Telescope, 1983. This a 1:5 scale model of the support systems module of the Hubble Space Telescope

Background imageSolar Power Collection: Missing solar array on Skylab 2, 1973. Creator: NASA

Missing solar array on Skylab 2, 1973. Creator: NASA
Missing solar array on Skylab 2, 1973. In the first repair spacewalk, Commander Pete Conrad and medical officer Joseph Kerwin managed to restore functionality to a solar wing

Background imageSolar Power Collection: Solar motor by Aubrey Eneas of Boston, c1905 (c1910)

Solar motor by Aubrey Eneas of Boston, c1905 (c1910). Demonstrated at Edwin Cawstons ostrich farm Pasadena, California. A reflector 33 feet (10.05 metres)

Background imageSolar Power Collection: Abel Pifres solar-powered printing press, c1894 ([c1927)

Abel Pifres solar-powered printing press, c1894 ([c1927). This used Augustin Mouchots solar engine in which a mirror focused the Suns rays onto a small boiler (patented in 1861)

Background imageSolar Power Collection: Skylab orbiting the Earth, 1970s. Creator: NASA

Skylab orbiting the Earth, 1970s. Creator: NASA
Skylab orbiting the Earth, 1970s. Launched in May 1973, Skylab was Americas first experimental space station. It contained solar arrays, an observatory, laboratory, workshop and other systems


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