PIX4638880: Depart to the Moon - Artist view - Tug and lunar lander leaving Earth - Artist view - A spaceship leaves Earth orbit for a three-day journey to the Moon. Following a powerful burst from its primary thruster, a trans-moon space tug accelerates itself and the attached lunar lander into a much larger Earth orbit that will intercept the moon in about three days / Bridgeman Images
PIX4638930: Back to the Moon: the Ares 1 and Ares 5 fusees - Illustration of Ares I and Ares V Launch Vehicles - Lunar Programme Constellation. Artist's view of the two future launchers Ares 1 and Ares 5 (right). Ares 5 is a cargo rocket that will be used around 2020 to carry the landing module as well as the various elements needed to build a base on the Moon. Ares 1, previewed to operate from 2014, will take the inhabited capsule Orion, first to the destination of the international space station, then towards the moon. Lunar program Constellation. Artwork of the future launchers Ares 1 and Ares 5. Ares 1 (left) is the crew launch vehicle; it will carry Orion capsule to ISS in 2014. The larger, unmanned Ares V will be the cargo launch vehicle for project Constellation / Bridgeman Images
PIX4638940: Back to the Moon: the Ares 1 rocket - Illustration of Ares I launch - Constellation Programme. The Ares 1 rocket carrying the module lives Orion. American project to return man to the Moon. The Ares 1 rocket is expected to take a crew to the space station in 2014 and then to the Moon in 2020. Artist's view. Illustration of the Ares I crew launch vehicle on the launch pad at Nasa's Kennedy Space Center, Florida. Ares rockets, named for the Greek god associated with Mars, will return humans to the moon and later take them to Mars and other destinations. Ares I is an inline, two-stage rocket configuration topped by the Orion crew vehicle and its launch abort system. Ares I may also deliver resources and supplies to the International Space Station (ISS), or to “” park”” payloads in orbit for retrieval by other spacecraft bound for the moon or other destinations / Bridgeman Images
PIX4638967: Back to the Moon: Artist view from the departure to the Moon - The Orion spacecraft onward to Moon - Artist view - The module inhabit Orion is docked to the planing module in Earth orbit and propels to the moon through a stage of the Ares 5 rocket. Ares 5 is a cargo rocket that will be used around 2020 to carry the landing module as well as the various elements needed to build a base on the Moon. The Orion manned spacecraft, docked to the lunar module in lunar orbit, propelled by an Ares 5 stage rocket towards the Moon. The Nasa's Project Constellation plans to send human explorers back to the Moon by 2020, and then onward to Mars; each Orion spacecraft will carry a crew of four to six astronauts / Bridgeman Images
PIX4639037: Back to the Moon: the Orion module in lunar orbit - Artist view - The Orion spacecraft in lunar orbit - Lunar program Constellation. The module lives in Orion orbit around the Moon. Orion should be able to take a crew of four astronauts to the Moon in 2020 and could be used to take men to Mars. Artist's concept of the Orion manned spacecraft in lunar orbit. The Nasa's Project Constellation plans to send human explorers back to the Moon by 2020, and then onward to Mars; each Orion spacecraft will carry a crew of four to six astronauts / Bridgeman Images
PIX4639089: Space Exploration: Soyuz and Orion Ships - Artist's View - CEV-Soyuz Joint Mission - An American Orion ship mooring has a Soyuz TMA-M spaceship during a space exploration mission. Illustration. An Orion class Crew Exploration Vehicle (AKA Deep Space Vehicle) is paired with a Soyuz TMA-M manned spacecraft for a joint deep space mission. The two spacecraft are connected via an adapter module that includes a hatch for Extra-vehicular activity (EVA) and science instrumentation / Bridgeman Images
PIX4639153: Space suits test - Engineers simulate sampling with new spatial combinations. To the right is the Mark III space combination, to the left is the i-suit. Arizona Desert, September 2005. Engineers collecting soil samples testing new space suits. At right is the Mark III space suit, at left the i-suit. Desert of Arizona, September 2005 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4640067: Crew of the Mars500 experience - Mars500 experiment crew - The Mars500 experience is a Martian mission simulation that began on June 3, 2010. The crew locked up for 520 days consists of six people. They are Italian-Colombian Diego Urbina (27) and Frenchman Roman Charles (31) selected by ESA, Russian Sukhrob Kamolov (32), Alexey Sitev (38), Alexandr Smoleevskiy (33) and Chinese Wang Yue (26). March 500 520-day isolation crew (Diego Urbina and Romain Charles from Europe, Sukhrob Kamolov, Alexey Sitev, Alexandr Smoleevskiy and Wang Yue from China) photographed just before the entry to the facility at 13:49 local time in Moscow (11:49 CET) on 3 June 2010. They will stay in the facility for more than 17 months simulating a mission to Mars / Bridgeman Images
PIX4640287: Space lift on the Moon - Artist's view - Lunar elevator ascending - A space lift leaves from the Moon to reach its destination at a point in Lagrange. A manned lunar space elevator ascends from the surface of the Moon riding a 35,000 - mile - long tether anchored at the other end to a counterweight in a Lagrange point in space. In this image the elevator is approximately 3,000 miles above the lunar surface, having taken approximately 50 hours to reach this point / Bridgeman Images
PIX4640626: Space tourism - Artist's view - Cruise shuttle in low earth orbit - Artist's view of a space shuttle of the future in orbit around the Earth. A reusable space tourism “” cruise””” shuttle orbits the earth at an altitude of approximately 250 miles. This spacecraft is 75 feet long by 55 feet wide. / Bridgeman Images
PIX4640659: Space tourism - Artist's view - Cruise shuttle in low earth orbit - Artist's view of a space shuttle from the future to the International Space Station (ISS). A reusable space tourism “” cruise””” shuttle rendezvouses with the International Space Station (ISS). This shuttle is 75 feet long by 55 feet wide. The ISS is about 360 feet by 240 feet, or slightly larger than a football field / Bridgeman Images
PIX4640756: Mine sur un asteroide - Illustration - Asteroid mining outpost - Artist's view a mining base installed on an asteroid. A massive manned mining outpost is built around a rocky near - Earth asteroid about 300 million miles from Earth. This oblong asteroid is approximately 2,000 feet long by 1,000 feet wide. The mining base and its supporting structure is almost one - half statute mile long / Bridgeman Images
PIX4637791: Star Sky on Old Faithful - The Milky Way above Old Faithful Village - The Lactee Way above the Old Faithful geyser eruption. Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA. The center of the Milky Way and green airglow can be seen abobe Old Faithful Village in Yellowstone National Park / Bridgeman Images
PIX4641820: Mercury - Atlas 7: Portrait of Scott Carpenter - Astronaut Scott Carpenter, one of the original seven astronauts for Mercury Project selected by NASA on April 27, 1959. Boosted by the Mercury - Atlas vehicle, the MA - 7 mission made the second manned orbital flight by the United States, and carried Astronaut Carpenter aboard Aurora 7 spacecraft to orbit the Earth three times. 1962 / Bridgeman Images