Space Collection (page 10)

Moon rock. Creator: NASA
Moon rock

Total eclipse of the Sun from Tsavo National Park, Kenya. Creator: NASA
Total eclipse of the Sun from Tsavo National Park, Kenya. In a total eclipse, the disk of the Sun is fully obscured by the Moon passing in front of it

Hercules Globular Cluster. Creator: NASA
Hercules Globular Cluster. The Great Globular Cluster in Hercules or the Hercules Globular Cluster, (Messier 13) is a cluster of several hundred thousand stars in the constellation of Hercules

Astronaut Richard Truly, second Space Shuttle flight, November 1981. Creator: NASA
Astronaut Richard Truly, second Space Shuttle flight, November 1981. US fighter pilot and astronaut Joe Engle (born 1937) looks at data in zero gravity on the second flight of the Space Shuttle

Big Joe, Viking 1 Mission to Mars, 1976. Creator: NASA
Big Joe, Viking 1 Mission to Mars, 1976. Big Joe, a dark rock on the planet surface, about 2 metres (6.6 feet) long, seen here about 8 meters (26 feet) from the Viking 1 Lander spacecraft

The Orion Nebula. Creator: NASA
The Orion Nebula. The Orion Nebula (Messier 42) is stellar nursery only 1, 500 light-years away, making it the closest large star-forming region to Earth in the constellation of Orion

Viking spacecraft, 1970s. Creator: NASA
Viking spacecraft, 1970s. NASAs Viking program consisted of a pair of American space probes sent to Mars, Viking 1 and Viking 2

Lander and surface of Mars, Viking 1 Mission to Mars, 1976. Creator: NASA
Lander and surface of Mars, Viking 1 Mission to Mars, 1976. The Viking 1 spacecraft, part of NASAs Viking programme, was the first spacecraft to land successfully on Mars and perform its mission

Sample scoop and arm, Viking 1 Mission to Mars, 1976. Creator: NASA
Sample scoop and arm, Viking 1 Mission to Mars, 1976. The Viking 1 spacecraft, part of NASAs Viking programme, was the first spacecraft to land successfully on Mars and perform its mission

First colour photograph of the Martian planet surface, Viking 1 Mission to Mars, 1976. The Viking 1 spacecraft, part of NASAs Viking programme

Martian sunset, Viking 1 Mission to Mars, 1976. Creator: NASA
Martian sunset, Viking 1 Mission to Mars, 1976. Mars skyline at sunset, pictured from the Viking lander. The Viking 1 spacecraft, part of NASAs Viking programme

Spiral galaxy in Triangulum constellation. Creator: NASA
Spiral galaxy in Triangulum constellation

The Planet Mars. Creator: NASA
The Planet Mars

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

Open star cluster, the Pleiades in Taurus. Creator: NASA
Open star cluster, the Pleiades in Taurus. The Pleiades (also known as the Seven Sisters and Messier 45), are an open star cluster in the constellation of Taurus

Atlas-Centaur rocket lifting off, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, USA
Atlas-Centaur rocket lifting off from Launch Complex 36 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, USA. Atlas-Centaur was a series of expendable launch vehicles (or ELVs)

Centre of the Andromeda Galaxy. Creator: NASA
Centre of the Andromeda Galaxy. Andromeda is a spiral galaxy approximately 780 kiloparsecs (2.5 million light-years) from Earth, and is the nearest major galaxy to our own Milky Way Galaxy

Saturn V rocket lifting off, Kennedy Space Center, Merritt Island, Florida, USA. Creator: NASA
Saturn V rocket lifting off, Kennedy Space Center, Merritt Island, Florida, USA. The Saturn V was the largest rocket ever built and was used on all Apollo missions to the moon

Apollo space walk. Creator: NASA
Apollo space walk. Astronaut performing a spacewalk (or EVA, Extra Vehicular Activity) outside a spacecraft

Shuttle in Vehicle Assembly Building, second Space Shuttle flight, 1981. Creator: NASA
Shuttle in Vehicle Assembly Building, second Space Shuttle flight, 1981. The Space Shuttle being prepared in the Kennedy Space Center, Merritt Island, Florida, USA

Orbiter flight tests, Space Shuttle Enterprise landing, USA, c1975. Creator: NASA
Orbiter flight tests, Space Shuttle Enterprise landing, USA, c1975. The Enterprise (OV-101) was built as part of NASAs Space Shuttle programme to perform atmospheric test flights after being launched

First Space Shuttle flight, Columbia parting from carrier aircraft, April 1981. The moment of parting from the Boeing 747 carrier. The Columbia Orbiter operated between 1981 and 2003

Eugene Cernan using the Rover on the lunar surface, Apollo 17 mission, December 1972. US astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt collected samples

Astronaut with Lunar Roving Vehicle on the Moon, 1970s. Creator: NASA
Astronaut with Lunar Roving Vehicle on the Moon, 1970s. The LRV or Moon Buggy was a battery-powered four-wheeled rover used on the Moon in the last three missions of the American Apollo programme in

Astronaut Charles Duke at the Descartes landing site, Apollo 16 mission, April 1972. Charles Duke collecting lunar samples on the surface of the Moon, with the Lunar Roving Vehicle

Buzz Aldrin sets up the seismic experiment, Apollo II mission, July 1969. Creator: Neil Armstrong
Buzz Aldrin sets up the seismic experiment, Apollo II mission, July 1969. Astronaut Buzz Aldrin on the lunar surface. The Apollo 11 Lunar Module, code named Eagle

Lunar Module above the Moon, Apollo 16 mission, April 1972. Creator: Thomas Mattingly
Lunar Module above the Moon, Apollo 16 mission, April 1972. Lunar landing craft photographed from the Command Module. The three primary objectives of the mission were: to inspect, survey

Skylab Space Station cluster seen from Command Module 3, 1973. Creator: NASA
Skylab Space Station cluster seen from Command Module 3, 1973. The Skylab space station first launched in May 1973, and was occupied in succession by three teams of three crewmembers

Last view of Skylab, 1974. Creator: NASA
Last view of Skylab, 1974. The Skylab space station first launched in May 1973, and was occupied in succession by three teams of three crewmembers

Lift off, second Space Shuttle flight, Kennedy Space Center, Merritt Island, Florida, USA, 1981
Lift off, second Space Shuttle flight, Kennedy Space Center, Merritt Island, Florida, USA, November 1981. STS-2 was the second Space Shuttle mission conducted by NASA

Space Shuttle Orbiter Discovery landing at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA, 1980s
Space Shuttle Orbiter Discovery landing at Kennedy Space Center, Merritt Island, Florida, USA, 1980s. Discovery was in operation between 1984 and 2011

Saturn and its moon Dione, seen from the Voyager 2 spacecraft. Creator: NASA
Saturn and its moon Dione, seen from the Voyager 2 spacecraft

Saturns rings, range 717, 000 km, seen from Voyager 1 spacecraft. Creator: NASA
Saturns rings, range 717, 000 km, seen from Voyager 1 spacecraft

Neptune from Voyager 2 spacecraft, c1980s. Creator: NASA
Neptune from Voyager 2 spacecraft, c1980s. The Voyager 2 space probe was launched by NASA in August 1977. The purpose of the Voyager programme was to study the outer Solar System

Buzz Aldrin descends from the Lunar Module, Apollo II mission, July 1969. Creator: Neil Armstrong
Buzz Aldrin descends from the Lunar Module, Apollo II mission, July 1969. Edwin " Buzz" Aldrin (b1930) descends the steps of the Lunar Module ladder to walk on the Moon

The surface of the Moon. Creator: NASA
The surface of the Moon

Europa from Voyager 2, 9 July 1979. Creator: NASA
Europa from Voyager 2, 9 July 1979. Europa, one of Jupiters moons, seen from the unmanned Voyager 2 spacecraft. The size of our moon

Milky Way in the Sagittarius region with meteor streak. Creator: NASA
Milky Way in the Sagittarius region with meteor streak. The trail of a meteor is seen against the Milky Way galaxy that contains our Solar System. It is part of the Sagittarius constellation

Clouds in the upper atmosphere of Uranus, from Voyager 2, c1986. Creator: NASA
Clouds in the upper atmosphere of Uranus, from Voyager 2, c1986. Clouds in the upper atmosphere of the planet Uranus, photographed by NASAs Voyager 2 spacecraft

Uranus from Voyager 2 spacecraft, c1980s. Creator: NASA
Uranus from Voyager 2 spacecraft, c1980s. Two images - one in true and one in false colour. The unmanned Voyager 2 space probe was launched by NASA in August 1977

The Needle Galaxy in Coma Berenices. Creator: NASA
The Needle Galaxy in Coma Berenices. The Needle Galaxy, an edge-on spiral galaxy in the constellation of Coma Berenices

Aries and the Seven Sisters. Creator: NASA
Aries and the Seven Sisters. The constellation of Aries and the Pleiades (or Seven Sisters) star cluster. Aries (Latin for ram) is one of the constellations of the zodiac

Uranus with satellites Miranda, Ariel and Umbriel, from Voyager 2, 24 January 1986. Composite of images taken by the unmanned Voyager 2 spacecraft from 74 million kilometres (46 million miles) away

Bright cluster of stars. Creator: NASA
Bright cluster of stars

Conrad in shower facility aboard Skylab 2, 1973. Creator: NASA
Conrad in shower facility aboard Skylab 2, 1973. Skylab 2 commander Pete Conrad takes a shower in zero gravity. The Skylab space station, first launched in May 1973

Launch Control Center in the John F Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA, July 1969
Launch Control Center in the John F Kennedy Space Center, Merritt Island, Florida, USA, July 1969. Apollo 11 was launched by a Saturn V rocket from Kennedy Space Center on 16 July 1969

Fog -filled craters, Mars. Creator: NASA
Fog -filled craters, Mars. Surface of the planet Mars

Trench excavated by surface sampler, Viking 1 Mission to Mars, 1976. Creator: NASA
Trench excavated by surface sampler, Viking 1 Mission to Mars, 1976. The Viking 1 spacecraft, part of NASAs Viking programme

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