Space Exploration Collection (page 10)

Earth from space - clouds over Mexico and Guatemala, second Space Shuttle flight, 1981

Earth from space - the Sudan, c1980s. Creator: NASA
Earth from space - the Sudan, c1980s. Part of East Africa

The Tibetan Plateau seen from aboard the first Space Shuttle flight, April 1981. Creator: NASA
The Tibetan Plateau seen from aboard the first Space Shuttle flight, April 1981. View of the Tibetan or Himalayan Plateau (known in China as the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau or the Qing-Zang Plateau)

Earth from space - the Indian Ocean, c1980s. Creator: NASA
Earth from space - the Indian Ocean, c1980s. Southern India and Sri Lanka with the Maldives chain

Earth from space - Mexico, c1980s. Creator: NASA
Earth from space - Mexico, c1980s. Cloud cover over the Pacific Ocean, Gulf of California and Baja California (left), with the Gulf of Mexico on the right

Baja California and the Sea of Cortes, seen from aboard the first Space Shuttle flight, April 1981. The Baja California Peninsula, a state in western Mexico, which protrudes into the Pacific Ocean

Space Shuttle Columbia lifts off, Kennedy Space Center, Merritt Island, Florida, USA. Columbia first launched in 1981 and her last flight was in 2003

Launch of Saturn V rocket, Kennedy Space Center, Merritt Island, Florida, USA, 7 December 1972. Apollo 17 was the last Apollo Moon landing mission and the only one to be launched at night

Saturn 1B lift off from Launch Complex 34, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA, 1960s. NASA launch vehicle used during the Apollo space programme

Apollo 16 Lunar Module Orion on the lunar surface, April 21, 1972. Creator: Charles Duke
Apollo 16 Lunar Module Orion on the lunar surface, April 21, 1972. Astronaut John W. Young, commander of the Apollo 16 lunar landing mission

First Space Shuttle Mission launches, Florida, USA, April 12, 1981. Creator: NASA
First Space Shuttle Mission launches, Florida, USA, April 12, 1981. Space Shuttle Columbia and STS-1 lift off from NASAs Kennedy Space Center, marking the first flight of the Space Shuttle Program

Apollo 17 recovery operations, Pacific Ocean, December 19, 1972. Creator: NASA
Apollo 17 recovery operations, Pacific Ocean, December 19, 1972. A water-level view of the Apollo 17 Command Module (CM) " America" floating in the sea following splashdown

Apollo director Phillips monitors Apollo 11 pre-launch activities, Florida, USA, 1969. From the Kennedy Space Flight Center control room, Apollo Program Director Lieutenant General Samuel C

Piper J-3L50 Cub, USA, April 16, 1942. Creator: Unknown
Piper J-3L50 Cub, USA, April 16, 1942. The Piper J-3 Cub was evaluated at Langley Research Center by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics in late 1939 to early 1940

Apollo 16 television transmission of Lunar Module ascent stage lift off, April 23, 1972. The flame from the Apollo 16 Lunar Module " Orion" ascent stage engine creates a kaleidoscope effect

XP-82 (XF-82) Twin Mustang, Langley Research Center, Virginia, USA, 5 May 1951. In the early 1950s, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics used this XP-82 Twin Mustang for its drop-body

Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova looks at the Apollo Command Module, Houston, Texas, 1977. Tereshkova was the first woman to make a space flight when she piloted Vostok 6 on 16 June 1963

President Nixon and Apollo 13 crewmen at Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii, USA, 18 April 1970. President Richard M. Nixon and the Apollo 13 crew pay their respects to the US flag during post-mission

Theodore von Karman at the Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, USA, 1950. Hungarian-born Von Karman came to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

Earth Resources 2 pilot at 65, 000 feet over Alaska, USA, 2014. Creator: Denis Steele
Earth Resources 2 pilot at 65, 000 feet over Alaska, USA, 2014. The Earth Resources 2 (ER-2) high-altitude aircraft was used to carry the MABEL (Multiple Altimeter Beam Experimental Lidar)

Eisenhower visits the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, Alabama, USA. Creator: NASA
Eisenhower visits the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, Alabama, USA. September 8, 1960. US President Eisenhower with rocket engineer Dr

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

Richard Whitcomb with Area Rule Wind Tunnel Model, USA, April 20, 1955. Creator: Unknown
Richard Whitcomb with Area Rule Wind Tunnel Model, USA, April 20, 1955. Aviation pioneer Richard Whitcomb worked at the Langley Research Center in Virginia throughout his exceptionally prolific life

Pluto as seen from New Horizons spacecraft, 2015. Creator: NASA
Pluto as seen from New Horizons spacecraft, 2015. Pluto nearly fills the frame in this image from the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI), taken on July 13, 2015, when the spacecraft was 476

British aviator Sheila Scott, 1970s. Creator: NASA
British aviator Sheila Scott, 1970s. Sheila Scott with her Piper Aztec " Mythre, " in which she made her world and a half flight in 1971

Apollo Project flight simulator, USA, 1960s. Creator: NASA
Apollo Project flight simulator, USA, 1960s. NASAs Lunar Orbit and Let-Down Approach Simulator (LOLA), a high-tech simulator designed to represent the view an Apollo astronaut would see if they were

American Rocket Society ARS-4, 1934. Creator: NASA
American Rocket Society ARS-4, 1934. This motor was used in the flight of ARS #4 on Staten Island, New York City, USA, on September 9, 1934. It burned liquid oxygen and gasoline

An ancient storm in the Jovian atmosphere, 1999. Creator: NASA
An ancient storm in the Jovian atmosphere, 1999. The Great Red Spot in Jupiters atmosphere is a vast storm, spinning like a cyclone

President Nixon meets the Apollo 11 astronauts on the lawn of the White House

Lunar landing training vehicle piloted by Neil Armstrong, Texas, USA, June 16, 1969. As preparation for the Apollo 11 moonshot

Backpacking, 1984. Creator: NASA
Backpacking, 1984. Astronaut Bruce McCandless II ventured farther away from the confines and safety of his ship than any astronaut ever had. The Manned Maneuvering Unit made this trip possible

Apollo 11 bootprint on the Moon, July 1969. Creator: NASA
Apollo 11 bootprint on the Moon, July 1969. Footprint made by US astronaut Neil Armstrong, first man to set foot on the Moon, clearly visible in the lunar soil

Engineers check body revolution model, Ohio, USA, July 31, 1957. Creator: Unknown
Engineers check body revolution model, Ohio, USA, July 31, 1957. Engineers at the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory making a check on the body of a model of a supersonic aircraft before a test run

Alligator at Kennedy Space Center, 1969. Creator: Unknown
Alligator at Kennedy Space Center, 1969. [Harold O Connor, manager of the Merritt Island Wildlife Refuge, watches a 10-foot-long alligator inch its way toward a busy highway at the Kennedy Space

Viking 2 image of Mars Utopian Plain, September 3, 1976. Creator: NASA
Viking 2 image of Mars Utopian Plain, September 3, 1976. The boulder-strewn field of red rocks reaches to the horizon nearly two miles from the Viking 2 spacecraft

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