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PIX4641897: Mercury - Atlas 9: Astronaut Gordon Cooper before the start - Pilot and spacecraft - Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper, wearing his Mercury pressure suit, looks over the spacecraft which he named “” Faith 7”” at the top of the Pad 14 gantry at Cape Canaveral. Cooper is prime pilot for the MA - 9 mission - 196 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4642198: S.Lucid in Mir 09/1996 - S.Lucid in Mir station 09/1996 - Shannon Lucid observes cereal plants in Mir station. 23/09/1996. Astronaut Shannon W. Lucid, former cosmonaut guest researcher, checks on wheat plants aboard Russia's Mir Space Station, during Flight Day 8. Lucid, along with the rest of the STS - 79 crew except for John E. Blaha, current cosmonaut guest researcher, is leaving Mir today. 23 September 199 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4642482: Deploiement du satellite LDEF - Deploiement du satellite LDEF (Long Duration Exposure Facility) seen from the Shuttle Challenger on April 7, 1984. This satellite remained in space for more than five years then was brought back to Earth to analyse the 57 experiments on board, intended to better understand the consequences of a long stay in space. / Bridgeman Images
PIX4645744: James Webb Space Telescope Mirrors (JWST) - Testing of the JWST's mirrors - Six of the 18 JWST (James Webb Space Telescope) mirrors seen at Nasa's Marshall Space Center. These mirrors will be tested there to ensure they will withstand the extreme temperatures of space vacuum. The JWST will replace the Hubble Space Telescope in 2014. Equipped with a 6.5 m mirror, he will observe the universe mainly in infrared. Six of the 18 James Webb Space Telescope mirror segments are being moved into the X - ray and Cryogenic Facility, or XRCF, at Nasa's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., to eventually experience temperatures dipping to a chilling - 414 degrees Fahrenheit to ensure they can withstand the extreme space environments. The test chamber takes approximately five days to cool a mirror segment to cryogenic temperatures. Marshall's X - ray & Cryogenic Facility is the world's largest X - ray telescope test facility and a unique, cryogenic, clean room optical test location. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large, infrared - optimized space telescope scheduled for launch in 2014. Equipped with a large mirror 6.5 meters (21.3 feet) in diameter, it will find the first galaxies that formed in the early Universe, connecting the Big Bang to our own Milky Way Galaxy and will reside in an orbit about 1.5 million km (1 million miles) from the Earth / Bridgeman Images
PIX4645755: James Webb Space Telescope Mirrors (JWST) - Testing of the JWST's mirrors - Six of the 18 JWST (James Webb Space Telescope) mirrors seen at Nasa's Marshall Space Center. These mirrors will be tested there to ensure they will withstand the extreme temperatures of space vacuum. The JWST will replace the Hubble Space Telescope in 2014. Equipped with a 6.5 m mirror, he will observe the universe mainly in infrared. Six of the 18 James Webb Space Telescope mirror segments are being moved into the X - ray and Cryogenic Facility, or XRCF, at Nasa's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., to eventually experience temperatures dipping to a chilling - 414 degrees Fahrenheit to ensure they can withstand the extreme space environments. The test chamber takes approximately five days to cool a mirror segment to cryogenic temperatures. Marshall's X - ray & Cryogenic Facility is the world's largest X - ray telescope test facility and a unique, cryogenic, clean room optical test location. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large, infrared - optimized space telescope scheduled for launch in 2014. Equipped with a large mirror 6.5 meters (21.3 feet) in diameter, it will find the first galaxies that formed in the early Universe, connecting the Big Bang to our own Milky Way Galaxy and will reside in an orbit about 1.5 million km (1 million miles) from the Earth / Bridgeman Images
PIX4644547: Satellite Meteosat in test in Cannes - A first generation Meteosat weather satellite undergoes final checks - View of a first generation Meteosat satellite in an Aerospatiale building in Cannes. A first generation Meteosat weather satellite undergoes final checks at Aerospace's satellite plant in Cannes, on the English Riviera / Bridgeman Images
PIX4644648: Satellite MSG - 1 - Meteosat 8 - Anaglyph - Satellite MSG - 1 - Meteosat 8 - Anaglyph - Artist's view of the European satellite MSG - 1 (Meteosat Second Generation) or Meteosat 8, in orbit around the Earth. Launched on August 28, 2002, it is a geostationary satellite located 35 600 km from Earth; dedicated to meteorology, it observes the Earth in visible, and in infrared. Meteosat Second Generation (MSG), is equipped with an extremely sophisticated imaging radiometer that can separate the incoming radiation into 12 (3 with the current Meteosat) different spectral bands. Each section, four of them in the visible and eight in the thermal infrared, delivers different information. They vary from visible images of weather systems during the day to cloud temperature at night; from surface temperature and water vapour to trace gas concentrations and dust particles in the atmosphere. MSG will deliver about twenty times as much information as its predecessor Meteosat, resulting in much more accurate short and medium - range forecasts / Bridgeman Images
LRI4644017: Risorgimento: “” The Italian patriot Giuseppe Garibaldi passes the Volturno River”” Scene of the Battle of Volturno during the expedition of the Thousand (or Red Shirts) in October 1860. Painting by Francesco Mancini (1830-1905) Naples, Museo Nazionale di San Martino, Mancini, Francesco (1694-1758) / Bridgeman Images
PIX4645613: Spitzer space telescope - Artist's view - Artwork of Spitzer in its heliocentric orbit - Spitzer space telescope observes the universe in infrared; it was launched and put into orbit in August 2003. The Spitzer Space Telescope (formerly SIRTF, the Space Infrared Telescope Facility) was launched into space by a Delta rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida on 25 August 2003. During its mission, Spitzer will obtain images and spectra by detecting the infrared energy, or heat, radiated by objects in space between wavelengths of 3 and 180 microns (1 micron is one - millionth of a meter). Most of this infrared radiation is blocked by the Earth's atmosphere and cannot be observed from the ground / Bridgeman Images
LRI4643643: La feast de la Madonna dell'Arco a Naples (Feast of the Madonna of the Arch) Detail d'un salesman de cheeses et musicians (Cheese merchant and musicians) - Painting by Gaetano Gigante (1770-1840) 1825 Naples, Museo Nazionale di San Martino, Gigante, Gaetano (1770-1840) / Bridgeman Images
LRI4643861: View of the military fortifications of the port of Reggio Calabria (View of Reggio Calabria military fortifications) Detail of a guard and canons (cannons and guard) - Painting by Jacob Philipp Hackert dit Hackert d'Italie (1737-1807) 18th century - Museo Nazionale di San Martino Naples, Hackert, Jacob-Philippe (1737-1807) / Bridgeman Images
PIX4644838: Hubble Satellite Deployment 25 - 04 - 1990 - The Hubble Space Telescope deployment April 25 1990 - Seen from the window of the Shuttle Discovery. Grappled by the remote manipulator system end effector of Discovery, the Hubble Space Telescope is held in appendage deploy position. The starboard solar array wing and the two high gain antennae are fully extended. An STS - 31 crewmember took this view through aft flight deck window. The HST is backdropped against the Earth's limb / Bridgeman Images