Images Dated 8th July 2008

Soyuz docking mission, news reports, 1969

Front-page Western news reports on the Soviet Soyuz docking mission of January 1969, the first time two manned spacecraft had docked. The two spacecraft, Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5, docked on 16th January 1969. Two of the crew members on Soyuz 5 (Aleksei Yeliseyev and Yevgeny Khrunov) transferred by space walking to Soyuz 4 and landed with its commander, Vladimir Shatalov. Soyuz 5 was landed separately by its commander, Boris Volynov. Shatalov is at lower centre, while Yeliseyev, Volynov and Khrunov are at centre (left to right). An artwork of the spacecraft is at centre left, with a photograph at top

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Mir space station cosmonauts, 1987

Mir space station cosmonauts. Soviet cosmonauts Yuri Romanenko and Aleksandr Laveykin assembling an electrical power pack on the Mir space station, in 1987. They flew the Soyuz TM-2 mission to Mir, departing Earth on 5th February 1987. Laveykin returned early on 30th July 1987, due to heart irregularities. Romanenko stayed longer, returning on 29th December 1987

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Thomas Jefferson (1743 1826). Statue. Missouri History Muse

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826). American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776) and the third President of the United States ). Statue. Missouri History Museum. Old Jefferson Memorial Building. St. Louis. Missouri. USA

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