Space Flight Collection (page 7)

Mars sample return mission, artwork C018 / 1876
Mars sample return mission. Artwork of a proposed Mars sample return mission spacecraft landing on Mars. At top left is the cruise stage, used to travel to Mars

Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, artwork C017 / 7230
Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Computer artwork of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope in orbit over the Earth. This space observatory was formerly known as the Gamma-ray Large Area Space

International Space Station, artwork C018 / 3555
International Space Station (ISS), artwork. The ISS, built in stages since 1998, is a collaborative project between the national space agencies of the USA, Canada, Japan, Russia and Europe

Lunar Landing Research Vehicle C017 / 7572
Lunar Landing Research Vehicle. The Lunar Landing Research Vehicle (LLRV) was built in 1963 as part of the Apollo Project to land on the moon

Apollo 16 exploration of the Moon, 1972 C018 / 3553
Apollo 16 exploration of the Moon. Panoramic image of the landing site of Apollo 16, the fifth and penultimate mission of the US Apollo space program

Neil Armstrong, US astronaut C014 / 1087
Neil Alden Armstrong (1930-2012), US astronaut and first person to walk on the Moon. Armstrong was a military pilot and later test pilot at NACAs High-Speed Flight Station at Edwards Air Force Base

US Space and Rocket Center display C014 / 0537
US Space and Rocket Center display. This centre is on land that was part of Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Alabama, USA. Proposed in 1960, the site opened in 1970

Asteroid mining, artwork C014 / 1238
Asteroid mining. Artwork of mining machines on an asteroid orbiting close to the Earth. Asteroids, a potential source of ores and minerals, are rocky bodies that orbit the Sun

Test pilots and X-1E aircraft, 1962 C014 / 1089
Test pilots and X-1E aircraft. US test pilots on 2 October 1962 in front of the X-1E supersonic aircraft at NACAs High-Speed Flight Station at Edwards Air Force Base

Astronaut Dale A. Gardner holding a For Sale sign during extravehicular activity (EVA). Gardner was an astronaut aboard the Space Shuttles STS-51A mission. Astronaut Joseph P

Astronaut reflection on a panel of the Hubble Space Telescope. Massimino was part of a crew from Space Shuttle STS-109 mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope. Photographed 3rd May 2002

Spacewalk, Joseph R. Tanner, STS-82
Spacewalk. Astronaut Joseph R. Tanner performs a spacewalk during a Space Shuttle Mission. A spacewalk is also known as ExtraVehicular Activity (EVA)

Astronaut Mike Massimino looking through the flight deck window of the Space Shuttle. Massimino was part of a crew from Space Shuttle STS-125 mission

ECHO horn antenna, 1962
ECHO horn antenna. This horn reflector antenna at Bell Telephone Laboratories in Holmdel, New Jersey, USA, was built in 1959. It was used for pioneering work with NASAs ECHO balloon satellites

Explorer 24 satellite, 1964
Explorer 24 satellite. This 12-foot (3.66-metre) diameter inflatable sphere (a balloon satellite) was developed at Langley Research Center, Virginia, USA

John R. Pierce, US satellite engineer
John Robinson Pierce (1910-2002), US communications satellite engineer and pioneer. Pierce studied at Caltech, and then worked at Bell Telephone Laboratories and became director of research there

Texas at night, ISS image
Texas at night, photographed by astronaut Mike Fossum on the International Space Station (ISS) on 6th November 2011. The photo shows the Gulf Coast at night with cities glowing brightly

Antimatter spaceship, artwork
Antimatter spaceship. Computer artwork of an antimatter propelled spacecraft in space. Antimatter propulsion is a theoretical future spaceship technology that uses the energy released by the total

Argentina from space, ISS image C014 / 3527
Argentina from space, ISS image. Catamarca region of Argentina taken by astronaut Ron Garan on board the International Space Station (ISS) on 17th April 2011

Himalayas from space, ISS image
Himalaya Mountains photographed by astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) on the 6th January 2011

Hurricane Katia, ISS image
Hurricane Katia photographed my astronaut Mike Fossum on the International Space Station (ISS) on 6th September 2011

Saturn V rockets F-1 engine. The Saturn V was the launch vehicle for NASAs Apollo program of manned missions to the Moon (1961 to 1975). The Saturn V was one of the most powerful rockets ever made

Von Neumann probe at planet, artwork C015 / 0805
Von Neumann probe at planet. Artwork of a self-replicating spacecraft (upper left) exploring a distant alien world. This type of self-replicating spacecraft

Earth from space, astronaut photo C014 / 0570
Earth from space, astronaut photo. Image taken by the STS-109 crew members onboard Space Shuttle Columbia. This image shows the Red Sea (blue, lower left), Sinai Peninsula (triangular)

Extrasolar planetary probe, artwork C015 / 0791
Extrasolar planetary probe. Artwork of a spacecraft probe orbiting a dead extrasolar planet. In the future, deep space probes may be launched on interstellar missions to explore planets found around

Lunar liquid mirror telescope, artwork
Lunar liquid mirror telescope. Artwork of a giant liquid mirror telescope (centre left) on the surface of the Moon. The Earth is at upper right

Lunar space elevator moon base, artwork
Lunar space elevator moon base. Artwork of a future lunar space elevator at its base on the near side of the Moon. The support facilities include a loading machine (yellow, with cargo boxes)

Lunar space elevator ascent, artwork
Lunar space elevator ascent. Artwork of a future lunar space elevator ascending from its base on the Moon. It is around 50 metres long, with a central solar-powered climber mechanism (solar panels)

Lunar space elevator and train, artwork
Lunar space elevator and train. Artwork comparing the sizes of a future lunar space elevator (top) and a train locomotive with two box cars. The lunar space elevator is around 50 metres long

Soyuz spacecraft in Earth orbit, artwork
Soyuz spacecraft in Earth orbit. Artwork of a Soyuz TMA-M spacecraft at sunset over the Atlantic Ocean at an orbital altitude of 320 kilometres

Soyuz spacecraft leaving Earth, artwork
Soyuz spacecraft leaving Earth. Artwork of a Soyuz TMA-M spacecraft (lower centre, black) connected to an extended stay module (labelled Future in Cyrillic), both with a crew capacity of three

Soyuz spacecraft at the Moon, artwork
Soyuz spacecraft at the Moon. Artwork of a Soyuz TMA-M spacecraft (right) connected to an extended stay module (centre, labelled Future in Cyrillic), both with a crew capacity of three

Dyson sphere, conceptual artwork C016 / 5335
Dyson sphere. Conceptual artwork of a spherical structure surrounding a planet and its star, representing a Dyson sphere. This concept is named after the US physicist Freeman Dyson

USS Hornet with Apollo astronauts, 1969 C016 / 4569
USS Hornet with Apollo astronauts. Aerial photograph of the aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV-12) on which US President Richard Nixon is welcoming the Apollo 11 astronauts back to Earth

Fairchild C-119 capsule recovery, 1960s C016 / 4237
Fairchild C-119 capsule recovery. US Air Force C-119J Fairchild Flying Boxcar aircraft using a trailing grapple to catch and recover a capsule of reconnaissance photographs (lower left)

Hercules HC-130 capsule recovery, 1969 C016 / 4238
Hercules HC-130 capsule recovery. US Air Force HC-130B aircraft using a trailing grapple to catch and recover a spy satellite or meteorological capsule (descending by parachute at lower centre)

SpaceX Dragon capsule at the ISS C016 / 4215
SpaceX Dragon capsule at the ISS. View from the International Space Station (ISS) of the Dragon cargo capsule from SpaceX (Space Exploration Technologies)

ISS Expedition 32 crew, August 2012 C016 / 4208
ISS Expedition 32 crew. Astronauts and cosmonauts inside the Kibo laboratory module of the International Space Station (ISS)

Astronaut exercising on the ISS C016 / 4207
Astronaut exercising on the ISS. NASA astronaut Sunita Williams (born 1965) exercising in a bungee harness on the Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill (COLBERT)

Astronaut plant experiment on the ISS C016 / 4206
Astronaut plant experiment on the ISS. Russian cosmonaut Sergei Volkov (born 1973), Expedition 28 flight engineer, checking the progress of a plant experiment on the International Space Station (ISS)

Astronaut chess game on the ISS C016 / 4205
Astronaut chess game on the ISS. NASA astronaut Greg Chamitoff (born 1962) playing a game of chess in the Harmony node of the International Space Station (ISS)

Von Braun weightlessness flight, 1968 C016 / 4201
Von Braun weightlessness flight. German-US rocket scientist and engineer Wernher von Braun (1912-1977) experiencing free-fall inside a KC-135 aircraft

Proton-M rocket before launch C013 / 9296
Proton-M rocket before launch. Russian Proton-M rocket before its launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, to put the Dutch NSS-14 (SES-4) telecommunications satellite into orbit

Mission Control Centre, Russia C013 / 9122
Mission Control Centre. Mission specialists carrying out the de-orbit program for the Russian space station Mir. Mir operated in low Earth orbit from 1986 to 2001

Mission Control Centre, Russia C013 / 9121
Mission Control Centre. Mission specialists carrying out the de-orbit program for the Russian space station Mir. Mir operated in low Earth orbit from 1986 to 2001

Crew of space shuttle mission STS-7 C013 / 7897
Crew of space shuttle mission STS-7. Four of the five astronauts that were on mission STS-7 outside the shuttle mission simulator

Sally Ride on space shuttle Challenger C013 / 7900
Sally Ride on space shuttle Challenger. NASA astronaut and first US woman in space, Sally Ride (1951-2012) with a tool box on the mid deck of the space shuttle Challenger

Preparing food on space shuttle C013 / 7898
Preparing food on space shuttle Challenger. Astronauts during mission STS-7 preparing food. At centre and bottom centre Sally Ride

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"Exploring the Final Frontier: A Journey through Space Flight" Laika, the brave space dog, sends a postcard from her celestial adventure, reminding us of the pioneers who paved the way for human exploration. Witnessing a breathtaking sunrise in space through Leonov's eyes, capturing the ethereal beauty that awaits beyond our planet's atmosphere. Apollo 8 gifts humanity with an awe-inspiring sight: Earthrise over Moon - a photograph that forever changes our perspective on our home planet and its place in the vast cosmos. An artist's rendition of Earthrise becomes an iconic symbol of hope and unity as we realize how interconnected we truly are amidst this vast universe. Gazing down at Earth from above the Black Sea, Leonov experiences firsthand both wonder and humility as he contemplates our tiny blue dot floating in infinite darkness. The determined spirit of Apollo 17 astronaut echoes across time as they leave their footprints on lunar soil – a testament to mankind's indomitable will to explore uncharted territories. In 2008, International Space Station becomes a beacon of collaboration and scientific progress where astronauts from various nations work together towards unraveling mysteries beyond our world. Rewinding back to history-making moments, we celebrate America's first manned space flight in 1961 – marking a giant leap forward for human ambition and technological prowess. Astronaut Alan Bean immortalizes his presence on the Moon through his remarkable photographs; each frame tells tales of dreams turned into reality against all odds. As astronauts capture images of Earth from afar during their lunar missions, these snapshots serve as poignant reminders that despite borders or divisions below, we share one fragile home among billions of stars scattered across galaxies far away. Alexei Leonov etches his name into history books by becoming humanity's first-ever spacewalker in 1965 – paving new paths for future explorers and pushing the boundaries of human potential.