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Laika, the first living Earth-born creature in orbit.
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Launch of the first U.S. manned space flight, May 1961.
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Launch of the Soviet spacecraft, Vostok I, carrying Yuri Gagarin, April 1961.
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Yuri Gagarin.
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Gemini rendezvous: Gemini VI spacecraft photographed from Gemini VII, December 1965.
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Gemini VII spacecraft photographed from Gemini VI, December 1965.
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Extravehicular activity (EVA)—astronaut emerging from command module.
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Footprint of Neil Armstrong’s first step on the Moon, July 21, 1969.
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Apollo II astronaut Buzz Aldrin walking on the moon.
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Apollo 15 astronaut James B. Irwin and lunar rover, July 1971.
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Space shuttle simulator cockpit, 1999.
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First space shuttle launch, 1981. The shuttle was called Columbia.
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Astronaut floating in the International Space Station (ISS).
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Astronauts making burgers aboard the ISS.
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ISS astronaut with fresh fruit in microgravity conditions.
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ISS with new solar panels, 2006.
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View of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, photographed from a U.S. space shuttle.
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SpaceShipOne, a private spacecraft, reentering the Earth’s atmosphere from orbit.
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Computer artwork of SpaceShipOne, successfully launched into space in June 2004.
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Sir Isaac Newton’s own drawing of his reflecting telescope.
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Dome of the Isaac Newton Telescope, La Palma, Canary Islands.
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Kalahari Desert, Namibia, as seen from space.
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Leonid meteor shower.
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View from Earth of the planet Venus with the Moon.
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Deployment of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) from the space shuttle Discovery, 1990.
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Colored optical image of the Rosette Nebula.
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Optical image of the Tarantula Nebula.
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HST image of colliding galaxies.
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Optical image of a whirlpool galaxy.
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Infrared composite image of colliding galaxies.
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HST image of a planetary nebula—a series of shells of gas cast off by a dying star.
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A starfield where gravitational wobbles show significant extrasolar planets.
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Computer artwork of an extrasolar gas giant planet, orbiting a star in the constellation Vulpecula.
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Computer artwork of the Voyager spacecraft.
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Computer artwork of the Phoenix spacecraft on Mars.
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Image of the Chasma Boreale canyon on Mars.
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The cratered surface of the planet Mercury.
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Craters on Mercury.
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Volcanoes on Venus.
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Venus’s atmosphere.
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Voyager 1 image of Jupiter.
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Voyager 1 image of Saturn and its ring system.
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Cassini image of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, in front of Saturn.
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Voyager 2 image of Uranus.
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Voyager 2 image of Neptune with its largest moon, Triton, just visible.
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Voyager 2 image of Neptune.
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Earthrise over Moon, taken by U.S. astronauts on board Apollo 8, 1968.
It is one of the first images of the Earth seen from space.
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Mars close approach, taken by the HST, 2007.
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Martian erosion features.
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Phoenix lander image of ice on Mars.
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Color-enhanced satellite image of a Martian river delta.
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HST image of Titan’s surface, 1994. Top left is hemisphere facing Saturn, bottom right is hemisphere facing away from Saturn.
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Cassini image of hydrocarbon lakes on Titan.
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Cassini image of surface features on Titan.
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HST image of Titan orbiting Saturn, 1995.
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X-ray image of Alpha Centauri, showing the two brightest stars in the system.
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Artwork of the planets and their orbits in the 55
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Artwork of extrasolar planet around 55 Cancri.
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Earth from space, in true color, showing Europe and northern Africa.