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PIX4642079: Mir Station 03/1996 - Mir Space Station 03/1996 - Mir Space Station seen above New Zealand from the Atlantis Shuttle before its mooring. 23/03/1996. Backdropped against the waters of Cook Strait near New Zealand's South Island, Russia's Mir Space Station is seen from the aft flight deck window of the Space Shuttle Atlantis. The two spacecraft were in the process of making their third docking in Earth - orbit. With the subsequent delivery of astronaut Shannon W. Lucid to the Mir, the Mir - 21 crew grew to three, as the mission specialist quickly becomes a cosmonaut guest researcher. She will spend approximately 140 days on Mir before returning to Earth. Tue 23 1996 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4642085: Mir Station 03/1996 - Mir Space Station 03/1996 - Mir Space Station seen from Shuttle Atlantis before returning to Earth. 28 March 1996. Russia's Mir Space Station seen from the STS - 76 Space Shuttle Atlantis following separation of the two spacecraft on March 28, 1996 / Bridgeman Images
FLO4642088: Aquatic Hail or Northern Hemlock - Lithography by F. Guimpel, extracted from medical botany by Friedrich Gottlob Haynes (1763-1832), Berlin, 1822 - Cowbane or northern water hemlock, Cicuta virosa - Handcoloured copperplate by F. Guimpel from Dr. F. G. Hayne's Medical Botany, Berlin, 1822 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4642105: Mir Station 09/1996 - Mir Space Station seen from the Atlantis shuttle after mooring. 24/09/1996. Russia's Mir Space Station, as seen in this Electronic Still Camera (ESC) photo from the Space Shuttle Atlantis, and the Space Shuttle begin their relative separation following undocking activity during Flight Day 9 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4642142: S.Lucid in the Mir station 1996 - S.Lucid in Mir station. 1996 - Shannon Lucid in communication with Earth from the main module of the Mir station. Shannon Lucid stayed 188 days in the Mir station from March to September 1996. In this photograph, astronaut Shannon W. Lucid, communicates with the ground support team inside the Core Module of the Mir Space Station. Launched aboard the STS - 76, the third Shuttle/Mir docking mission, in March 1996, to join the Mir crew in the orbiting laboratory, astronaut Lucid returned to Earth aboard STS - 79 in September 1996 / Bridgeman Images
FLO4642151: Nummular Lysimaque or Grain with Ecus - Lithography by F. Guimpel, extracted from medical botany by Friedrich Gottlob Haynes (1763-1832), Berlin, 1822 - Creeping jenny, Lysimachia nummularia - Handcoloured copperplate by F. Guimpel from Dr. F. G. Hayne's Medical Botany, Berlin, 1822 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4642165: S.Lucid in Mir 09/1996 - S.Lucid in Mir station 09/1996 - Shannon Lucid training on a treadmill in Mir station. 09/1996. View of astronaut Shannon Lucid exercising on a treadmill which has been assembled in the Mir space station Base Block module. Beside her with a flight data file is her replacement, astronaut John Blaha / 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
FLO4642226: Richardia brasiliensis - Lithography by F. Guimpel, extracted from botanical medicale by Friedrich Gottlob Haynes (1763-1832), Berlin, 1822 - Mexican clover or Brazilian call-lily, Richardia brasiliensis - Handcoloured copperplate by F. Guimpel from Dr. F. G. Hayne's Medical Botany, Berlin, 1822 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4642232: Atlantis from Mir station 09/1996 - Atlantis seen from Mir station 09/1996 - Space shuttle Atlantis moored to Mir station. September 1996. View of the orbiter Atlantis docked to the Mir space station as seen from the Mir. he Cooperative Solar Array (CSA) can be seen just above the orbiter's flight deck / Bridgeman Images
PIX4642270: Mir station: exit of Vasili V. Tsibliyev 04/1997 - Exit into space of cosmonaut Vasili V. Tsibliyev on 29 April 1997. In the background the Kvant module of the Mir space station. This photograph, taken by NASA/Mir 23's Jerry M. Linenger, guest researcher, shows Mir 23 commander Vasili V. Tsibliyev during a five - hour spacewalk performed by the two outside the Russian Mir Space Station. Tsibliyev in new ORLAN - M space suit marked with red stripes works at the end of Strehla pole backdropped by Base Block and Kvant - 1 module. The tower - like structure in lower left is Sofora, which once was used for an experiment in attitude control on the Mir / Bridgeman Images
PIX4640224: Space lift on the Moon - Artist's view - Lunar elevator lunar base - Lunar base equipped with a space lift. A manned lunar space elevator prepares to depart from its manned lunar base. Surrounding it are support facilities and cargo. The yellow machine on the right is an articulated manned manipulator for handling cargo and managing the elevator. The space elevator concept involves running a cable from the surface of a planet or moon up to a gravitationally - stable point in space, whereupon a specially - designed vehicle can climb and descend the cable. Also known as tether propulsion and non-rocket space launch, this method permits an alternative way to access space. In the case of the lunar space elevator, the cable is anchored to the surface of the Moon and ascends to a stable Lagrange point. In this illustration the cable, in the form of a ribbon, is anchored to the southern hemisphere of the near - side of the Moon and ascends approximately 35,000 miles towards the Earth. The manned climbing vehicle, the “” elevator,””” is powered by solar energy collected via its array of photovoltaics. The manned elevator illustrated is approximately 160 feet long. Traveling at a velocity of roughly 60 mph it would take the elevator about 3 weeks to cover the distance between the lunar surface and Lagrange point in space / Bridgeman Images
PIX4640240: Columbus MTFF Space Station - Ecorche - The space station Columbus MTFF - Cross view of the European Space Station project, Columbus MTFF (Man - Tent Free Flyer), in 1991. Cutaway made in 1991 showing the european space station project, the Columbus MTFF (Man - Tent Free Flyer) module / Bridgeman Images