Images Dated 8th November 2011

1970 Morris Minor

1970 Morris Minor Traveller

1970, 70s, Auto, Automobile, British, Car, Classic, Estate, Minor, Morris, Studio, Transport, Traveller, White

Delta mission to the ISS, artwork

Delta mission to the International Space Station (ISS) over the Netherlands, artwork. This mission (April 2004) included Dutch astronaut Andre Kuipers and a variety of European science experiments. The Expedition 8 crew (Alexandr Kaleri and Michael Foale) were replaced with the Expedition 9 crew (Edward Fincke and Gennady Padalka). The Soyuz spacecraft (one at lower left) were Soyuz TMA-4 and Soyuz TMA-3. The ISS, built in stages since 1998, is a collaborative project between the national space agencies of the USA, Canada, Japan, Russia and Europe. It orbits at an altitude of around 360 kilometres

© DAVID DUCROS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY

Volume II, Plate 52

Chromolithograph plate after original drawing by Alice B Ellis from The Herefordshire Pomona. This publication in two volumes containing coloured figures and descriptions of the most esteemed kinds of apples and pears was edited by Henry Graves Bull whose daughter Edith E Bull also produced some drawings for the plates. The technical editor was Robert Hogg (1818-1897) who was Vice President of the Royal Horticultural Society, editor of the RHS Journal, and writer of The Fruit Manual