FLO4642835: Common castor - Lithograph by F. Guimpel, extracted from botanical medicine by Friedrich Gottlob Haynes (1763-1832), Berlin, 1822 - Castor oil plant, Ricinus communis - Handcoloured copperplate by F. Guimpel from Dr. F. G. Hayne's Medical Botany, Berlin, 1822 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4642836: Intelsat telecommunication satellite 6 - Intelsat telecommunication satellite 6 - Deployment of the Intelsat VI satellite seen from the shuttle Endeavour on 16 May 1992. Equipped with a new propulsion system, this satellite will join its geosynchronous orbit / Bridgeman Images

PIX4642853: Intelsat satellite 6 - Intelsat VI satellite - Recoveration of the Intelsat VI satellite by shuttle Endeavour in May 1992. From left to right are astronauts Richard J. Hieb, Thomas D. Akers, and Pierre J. Thuot. Three STS - 49 crewmembers hold onto the 4.5 - ton Intelsat VI satellite in May 1992 after a six - handed “” capture””” was made minutes earlier. Left to right are astronauts Richard J. Hieb, Thomas D. Akers and Pierre J. Thuot. Thuot stands on the end of the Canadarm, which was instrumental as a mobile working platform in the capture / Bridgeman Images

FLO4642855: Flax grows. Coloured copper engraving, in Botanique Medicinale (published in Berlin, Germany, 1822) by Doctor Friedrich Gottlob Haynes (1763-1832), German botanist and pharmacist. Common flax or linseed, Linum usitatissimum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Friedrich Gottlob Hayne's “” Getreue Darstellung und Beschreibung der in der Arzneykunde Gebrauchilchen Gewachse”” (Medical Botany), Berlin, 1822. Hayne (1763-1832) was a German botanist, apothecary and, from 1814, professor of pharmaceutical botany at Berlin University. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4642866: Symphony communication satellite - 2 - Symphony satellite communication - 2. Artwork - Artist's view of the Symphony Satellite - 2 in orbit around the Earth. Symphonie satellites are the first telecommunications satellites made in France and Europe. Symphonie-2 was launched on 27 August 1975 and its mission ended in 1985. Symphony satellites are the first european communication satellites. Symphony - 2 was launched in 1975 and its mission ended in 1985 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4642881: Communications satellite Telecom-1C - Satellite communication Telecom-1C. Artwork - Artist's view of the French satellite Telecom - 1C in orbit around the Earth. The satellite was launched on 11 March 1988 and its mission ended in 1996. English satellite Telecom - 1C was launched on March 11 1988 and its mission ended in 1996 / Bridgeman Images

FLO4642882: White lilies. Coloured copper engraving, in Botanique Medicinale (published in Berlin, Germany, 1822) by Doctor Friedrich Gottlob Haynes (1763-1832), German botanist and pharmacist. Madonna lily, Lilium peregrinum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Friedrich Gottlob Hayne's “” Getreue Darstellung und Beschreibung der in der Arzneykunde Gebrauchilchen Gewachse”” (Medical Botany), Berlin, 1822. Hayne (1763-1832) was a German botanist, apothecary and, from 1814, professor of pharmaceutical botany at Berlin University. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4642908: Dragon head. Coloured copper engraving, in Botanique Medicinale (published in Berlin, Germany, 1822) by Doctor Friedrich Gottlob Haynes (1763-1832), German botanist and pharmacist. Dragon's head, Dracocephalum moldavica. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Friedrich Gottlob Hayne's “” Getreue Darstellung und Beschreibung der in der Arzneykunde Gebrauchilchen Gewachse”” (Medical Botany), Berlin, 1822. Hayne (1763-1832) was a German botanist, apothecary and, from 1814, professor of pharmaceutical botany at Berlin University. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4642921: Satellite Artemis - Satellite Artemis - Artist's view of the European satellite Artemis (Advanced Relay and Technology Mission). Communication and relay satellite for other satellites, it was launched in July 2001 / Bridgeman Images

FLO4642944: Apic lavender. Coloured copper engraving, in Botanique Medicinale (published in Berlin, Germany, 1822) by Doctor Friedrich Gottlob Haynes (1763-1832), German botanist and pharmacist. Spike lavender, Lavandula latifolia. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Friedrich Gottlob Hayne's “” Getreue Darstellung und Beschreibung der in der Arzneykunde Gebrauchilchen Gewachse”” (Medical Botany), Berlin, 1822. Hayne (1763-1832) was a German botanist, apothecary and, from 1814, professor of pharmaceutical botany at Berlin University. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4642978: Compendial peony. Coloured copper engraving, in Botanique Medicinale (published in Berlin, Germany, 1822) by Doctor Friedrich Gottlob Haynes (1763-1832), German botanist and pharmacist. Crimson flowered peony with leaves, seeds, roots. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Friedrich Gottlob Hayne's “” Getreue Darstellung und Beschreibung der in der Arzneykunde Gebrauchilchen Gewachse”” (Medical Botany), Berlin, 1822. Hayne (1763-1832) was a German botanist, apothecary and, from 1814, professor of pharmaceutical botany at Berlin University. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4642980: Artist's view of the European satellite of telecommunication SMALLSAT / Bridgeman Images

FLO4642988: Hemp plant grows. Coloured copper engraving, in Botanique Medicinale (published in Berlin, Germany, 1822) by Doctor Friedrich Gottlob Haynes (1763-1832), German botanist and pharmacist. Cannabis plant, Cannabis sativa. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Friedrich Gottlob Hayne's “” Getreue Darstellung und Beschreibung der in der Arzneykunde Gebrauchilchen Gewachse”” (Medical Botany), Berlin, 1822. Hayne (1763-1832) was a German botanist, apothecary and, from 1814, professor of pharmaceutical botany at Berlin University. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4643003: Donkey cucumber. Coloured copper engraving, in Botanique Medicinale (published in Berlin, Germany, 1822) by Doctor Friedrich Gottlob Haynes (1763-1832), German botanist and pharmacist. Squirting cucumber, Mormodica elaterium, Ecballium elaterium. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Friedrich Gottlob Hayne's “” Getreue Darstellung und Beschreibung der in der Arzneykunde Gebrauchilchen Gewachse”” (Medical Botany), Berlin, 1822. Hayne (1763-1832) was a German botanist, apothecary and, from 1814, professor of pharmaceutical botany at Berlin University. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4643031: Galileo satellites - Illustration - Artist's view of the European satellite network Galileo consists of 30 satellites at about 24,000 km of altitude (27 operationals, 3 reserve). This satellite positioning system is expected to be operational in 2011 / Bridgeman Images

FLO4643045: White-tailed sea eagle, Haliaeetus albicilla (Erne, Aquila albicilla). Handcoloured copperplate engraving of an illustration by William Hayes and his daughter M (Matilda) from Portraits of Rare and Curious Birds from the Menagery of Osterly Park, London: Bulmer, 1794., Hayes, William (1735-1802) / Bridgeman Images

PIX4642287: Station Mir: release of J.Linenger 04/1997 - J.Linenger EVA - Mir station 04/1997 - Space release of astronaut Jerry Linenger on 29 April 1997. In the background of the solar panels and the Kvant module of the Mir space station. This photograph, taken by Mir 23 commander Vasili V. Tsibliyev shows NASA/Mir 23's Jerry M. Linenger, guest researcher during a five - hour spacewalk performed by the two outside the Russian Mir Space Station. Linenger blue stripes is backdropped by Kvant module and Cooperative Solar Array CSA while standing on the Docking Module not in fram / Bridgeman Images

PIX4642319: Station Mir - Panel damage.10/1997 - Mir station with damaged solar panel. 10/1997 - The Mir space station seen from the shuttle Atlantis. A solar panel damage to the Spektr module is visible. Russia's Mir Space Station backdropped against a cloud - covered Earth photographed during a fly - around by the Space Shuttle Atlantis following the conclusion of joint docking activities between the Mir - 24 and STS - 86 crews. One of the solar array panels on the Spektr Module shows damage incurred during the impact of a Russian unmanned Progress re - supply ship with collided with the space station on June 25, 1997 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4642322: Station Mir - Damage panel.12/1997 - Mir station with damaged solar panel - View of the solar panel Damage of the Spektr module. The damaged Spektr module on the Mir Space Station. The Earth limb is visible in the background / Bridgeman Images

PIX4642335: Station Mir - Panel damage.10/1997 - Mir station with damaged solar panel. 10/1997 - The Mir space station seen from the shuttle Atlantis. A solar panel damage to the Spektr module (2nd to left from the top) is visible. 01/10/1997. Russia's Mir Space Station backdropped against a cloud - covered Earth photographed during a fly - around by the Space Shuttle Atlantis following the conclusion of joint docking activities between the Mir - 24 and STS - 86 crews. One of the solar array panels on the Spektr Module shows damage incurred during the impact of a Russian unmanned Progress re - supply ship with collided with the space station on June 25, 1997. Oct 01 1997 / Bridgeman Images

FLO4642366: Wild or Wild Lettuce - Lithography by F. Guimpel, extracted from medical botany by Friedrich Gottlob Haynes (1763-1832), Berlin, 1822 - Lactuca vitosa - Handcoloured copperplate by F. Guimpel from Dr. F. G. Hayne's Medical Botany, Berlin, 1822 / Bridgeman Images

FLO4642371: Dairy maraicher - Lithography by F. Guimpel, extracted from medical botany by Friedrich Gottlob Haynes (1763-1832), Berlin, 1822 - Sonchus oleraceus - Handcoloured copperplate by F. Guimpel from Dr. F. G. Hayne's Medical Botany, Berlin, 1822 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4642375: The Mir space station seen from the shuttle Discovery. 12/06/1998 - Mir station seen in june 1998 - Mir space station seen from the shuttle Discovery. 12/06/1998. Overall view of Mir over the Earth horizon / Bridgeman Images

FLO4642395: Red Mahogany - Lithograph by F. Guimpel, extracted from botanical medicine by Friedrich Gottlob Haynes (1763-1832), Berlin, 1822 - Resin-bearing red mahogany, Eucalyptus resinifera - Handcoloured copperplate by F. Guimpel from Dr. F. G. Hayne's Medical Botany, Berlin, 1822 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4642401: Crews in Mir 06/98 - Crews Mir - 25 and STS - 91 in Mir, de g. a d.: Valery Ryumin, Wendy Lawrence, Charles Precourt, Andrew Thomas, Talgat Musabayev, Janet Kavandi, Dominic Gorie, Nikolai Budarin and Franklin Chang - Diaz. 12/06/1998 / Bridgeman Images

FLO4642421: Copaiba or copahu - Lithography by F. Guimpel, extracted from medical botany by Friedrich Gottlob Haynes (1763-1832), Berlin, 1822 - Copal or copaiba tree, Copaifera guyanensis - Handcoloured copperplate by F. Guimpel from Dr. F. G. Hayne's Medical Botany, Berlin, 1822 / Bridgeman Images

FLO4642428: Astragalus producer of adragante gum - Lithography by F. Guimpel, extracted from medical botany by Friedrich Gottlob Haynes (1763-1832), Berlin, 1822 - Tragacanth gum tree, Astragalus gummifer - Handcoloured copperplate by F. Guimpel from Dr. F. G. Hayne's Medical Botany, Berlin, 1822 / Bridgeman Images

FLO4642439: Orcanette des dyers - Lithograph by F. Guimpel, extracted from botanique medicale by Friedrich Gottlob Haynes (1763-1832), Berlin, 1822 - Alkanet or dyers' bugloss, Alkanna tinctoria - Handcoloured copperplate by F. Guimpel from Dr. F. G. Hayne's Medical Botany, Berlin, 1822 / Bridgeman Images

FLO4642459: Copaiba (variete) - Lithography by F. Guimpel, extracted from medical botany by Friedrich Gottlob Haynes (1763-1832), Berlin, 1822 - Copal or copaiba tree, Copaifera jacquinii - Handcoloured copperplate by F. Guimpel from Dr. F. G. Hayne's Medical Botany, Berlin, 1822 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4642471: Mir station 06/1998 - Mir station seen in june 1998 - Mir space station seen from the shuttle Discovery. Russia's Mir space station and the moon share a 70 mm frame exposed by one of the STS - 91 crew members aboard the Earth - orbiting Space Shuttle Discovery as it passed over a line of heavy thunderstorms on Earth / Bridgeman Images

PIX4642478: Mir station 06/1998 - Mir station seen in june 1998 - Mir space station seen from the shuttle Discovery. Russia's Mir space station seen by one of the STS - 91 crew members aboard the Earth - orbiting Space Shuttle Discovery / 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

FLO4642485: Copayer (variete) or copaiba - Lithography by F. Guimpel, extracted from botany medicale by Friedrich Gottlob Haynes (1763-1832), Berlin, 1822 - Copal or copaiba tree, Copaifera oblongifolia - Handcoloured copperplate by F. Guimpel from Dr. F. G. Hayne's Medical Botany, Berlin, 1822 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4642492: 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

FLO4642656: Mimosa fragrant - Lithography by F. Guimpel, extracted from medical botany by Friedrich Gottlob Haynes (1763-1832), Berlin, 1822 - Sweet thorn bush, Acacia karroo - Handcoloured copperplate by F. Guimpel from Dr. F. G. Hayne's Medical Botany, Berlin, 1822 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4639704: European Astronaut on Mars - Illustration - European Astronaut on Mars - Illustration - A European astronaut robs the soil of March in 2030. Artist's view. An european spacewoman walking on the martian surface in 2030 / Bridgeman Images