PIX4594875: Star sky and light pollution - Starry sky and light pollution - Orion faces the Bull on the horizon. Higher, the Gemels and the Coach in the heart of the Lactee Way. In overprint, the mythological forms of these constellations, extracted from the Uranographia of Hevelius. Constellations of Orion and Taurus near horizon; above, Gemini and Auriga. Mythological Constellations forms from “Uranographia” star atlas by Hevelius (1690) have been added / Bridgeman Images

PIX4594943: Apollo mission: astronaut training - Apollo desert survival training - Three astronauts participate in survival training in the desert (Washington State). From left to right, astronauts Charles M. Duke, Jr. and Thomas K. Mattingly, Colonel Bohart, and astronaut John L. Swigert. August 1967. Three astronauts participating in Apollo desert survival training in Washington state pose with Air Force Col. Chester Bohart (second from right). Standing from left to right are Charles M. Duke, Jr., Thomas K Mattingly, Col. Bohart, and John L. Swigert. Since the Mercury Program, astronauts have taken survival courses in case they are forced to land on a remote part of the Earth where they may need to do without human help for several weeks. August 1967 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4594993: Decollage Apollo 4 - 11/1967 - Apollo 4 launch - Decollage of the Saturn V/Apollo 4 rocket on 9/11/1967. Apollo 4 was launched from Pad A Launch Complex 39 on Nov 9 1967. The successful objectives of the Apollo 4 Earth - orbital unmanned space mission obtained included flight information on launch vehicle and spacecraft structural integrity and compatibility, flight loads, stage separation, subsystem operation, emergency detection subsystem operation, and evaluation of the Apollo Command Module heat shield under conditions encountered on return from a moon mission / Bridgeman Images

PIX4594994: Capsule Apollo 1 after fire - The Apollo 1's Command Module after the accident fire. Jan 28 1967 - The Apollo 1's Command Module after the accident fire. Jan 28 196 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4595013: Apollo 5: Saturn 1B rocket - Apollo 5: Saturn 1B rocket - The Saturn 1B rocket on its fire pitch awaits its its launch scheduled for January 22, 1968 for the Apollo 5 test mission. AS-204, the fourth Saturn IB launch vehicle, awaits its its January 22, 1968 liftoff from Cape Canaveral, Florida for the unmanned Apollo 5 mission. Primary mission objectives included the verification of the Apollo Lunar Model's (LM) ascent and descent propulsion systems and an evaluation of the S - IVB stage instrument unit performance. In all, nine Saturn IB flights were made, ending with the Apollo - Soyuz Test Project in July 1975 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4595056: Decollage Apollo 7 10/1968 - Liftoff of Apollo 7. Oct 11 1968 - Launch of the Apollo rocket 7. 11/10/1968. Liftoff of Apollo 7 at Launch Complex 34. Oct 11 1968 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4595088: Apollo 7/Saturn IV B - Apollo 7/Saturn IV B - Saturn IV B photograph of the Apollo 7 module during the stowage manoeuvres. 1968. Saturn IV B photographed from the Apollo 7 spacecraft during transposition and docking maneuvers. October 1968 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4595105: Apollo 7/Saturn IV B - Saturn IVB stage from the Apollo 7 spacecraft - Saturn IV B photograph of the Apollo 7 module during mooring maneuvers. 1968. The expended Saturn IVB stage as photographed from the Apollo 7 spacecraft during transposition and docking maneuvers. 1968 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4595119: Crew Apollo 9 - Apollo 9 crew - Crew Apollo 9, from left to right: James A. McDivitt, David R. Scott and Russell L. Schweickart. 18/12/1968. These three astronauts are the prime crew of the Apollo 9 (Spacecraft 104/Lunar Module 3/Saturn 504) space mission. Left to right, are James A. McDivitt, commander; David R. Scott, command module pilot; and Russell L. Schweickart, lunar module pilot. 18 Dec 1968 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4595151: Apollo 9: Saturn V rocket - Apollo 9: Saturn V roll out - Saturn V rocket en route to its fire pad at the Kennedy space center. January 3, 1969. Aerial view of the Apollo 9 (Spacecraft 104/Lunar Module 3/Saturn 504) space vehicle on the way from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Pad A, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center. The Saturn V stack and its mobile launch tower are atop a huge crawler - transporter. (view looking toward Pad A) Jan 3, 1969 / Bridgeman Images

TEC4595211: Statue of Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970) on the Champs Elysees, Paris 75008. On the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of the death of General de Gaulle, Jacques Chirac (born in 1932) inaugurated a statue representing him in military dress as he was when he descended the Champs Elysees at the Liberation of Paris on 26 August 1944. Artwork by Jean Cardot, 2000. (born in 1830). / Bridgeman Images

PIX4595224: Apollo 9: the LEM seen from the command module - Apollo 9: LM seen from the Command Module - The LEM, “” Spider””, seen from the command module. 07/03/1969 A View of the Apollo 9 Lunar Module (LM), “” Spider,””” in a lunar lading configuration, as photographed from the Command and Service Modules (CSM) on the fifth day of the Apollo 9 - Orbital mission. The landing gear on the “” Spider””” has been deployed. Inside the “” Spider”” were astronauts James A. McDivitt, Apollo 9 commander; and Russell L. Schweickart, lunar module pilot. Astronaut David R. Scott, command module pilot, remained at the controls in the Command Module (CM), “” Gumdrop,”” while the other two astronauts checked out the LM. Tue 7 1969 / Bridgeman Images

TEC4595227: Immeuble Rochas, rue Francois 1er, Paris 8th arrondissement. Architect Ricardo Bofill, construction 1988., Bofill, Ricardo (b.1939) / Bridgeman Images

PIX4595265: Apollo 9: the LEM seen from the command module - Apollo 9: LM seen from the Command Module - The LEM, “” Spider””, seen from the command module. 07/03/1969 The Lunar Module (LM) “” Spider”” ascent stage is photographed from the Command and Service Modules (CSM) on the fifth day of the Apollo 9 Earth - orbital mission. While astronaut David R. Scott, command module pilot, remained at the controls in the CSM “” Gumdrop,””” astronauts James A. McDivitt, Apollo 9 commander; and Russell L. Schweickart, lunar module pilot, checked out the “” Spider.”” The Lm's descent stage had already been jettisoned. Tue 7 1969 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4595272: Apollo 9: mooring of the LEM 03/1969 - The control module mooring to the LEM, “” Spider””. 06/03/1969. The Apollo 9 Command and Service Module successfully docked with Lunar Module seen from lunar module porch. Tue 6 1969 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4595273: Apollo 9: Control Room - Apollo 9: Mission Operations Control Room - Houston Control Room during Apollo 9. March 1969. Overall view of the Mission Operations Control Room in the Mission Control Center, Building 30, during the Apollo 9 Earth - orbital mission. When this photograph was taken a live television transmission was being received from Apollo 9 as it orbited Earth. March 196 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4595306: Apollo 9: release of R.Schweickart 03/1969 - Apollo 9: R.Schweickart extravehicular activity - Extravehicular output of Russell L. Schweickart 06/03/1969 Russell L. Schweickart, standing on the Lunar Module “” Spider's”” porch during his extravehicular activity. Tue 6 1969 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4595319: Apollo 9: release of D.Scott 03/1969 - Apollo 9: David Scott extravehicular activity - David R. Scott passing the control module lock. 06/03/1969. Astronaut David R. Scott in Command Module hatch. Tue 6 1969 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4595347: Crew Apollo 10 - Apollo 10 crew - The crew of Apollo 10, from left to right astronauts Eugene A. Cernan, Thomas P. Stafford and John W. Young. 03/04/1969. The prime crew of the Apollo 10 mission at the Kennedy Space Center. Left to right: Eugene A. Cernan, Lunar Module pilot; Thomas P. Stafford, Commander and John W. Young, Command Module pilot. Apr 03 1969 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4595382: Decollage Apollo 10 - Apollo 10 launch - Decollage of the Saturn V/Apollo 10 rocket, Kennedy Space Center. 18/05/1969. The Apollo 10 (Spacecraft 106/Lunar Module 4/Saturn 505) space vehicle is launched from Pad B, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center, Florida at 12:49 p.m., May 18, 1969. Aboard the spacecraft are astronauts Thomas P. Stafford, commander; John W. Young, command module pilot; and Eugene A. Cernan, lunar module pilot. The eight - day, lunar orbit mission will mark the first time the complete Apollo spacecraft has operated around the moon and the second manned flight for the Lunar Module (LM). Two Apollo 10 astronauts, Stafford and Cernan, are scheduled to descend to within eight nautical miles of the moon's surface in the LM. 18 May 1969 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4595418: Apollo 10: le module de commande - The Apollo 10 Command/Service modules seen from LM - The control module of Apollo 10 seen above crateres on the hidden face of the Moon from the LEM after separation into lunar orbit. 22 May 1969. The Apollo 10 Command and Service Modules (CSM) are photographed from the Lunar Module (LM) after CSM/LM separation in lunar orbit. The CSM was about 175 statute miles east of Smhyth's Sea and was above the rough terrain which is typical of the lunar farside. The eastward oblique view of the lunar surface is centered near 105 degrees east longitude and 1 degree north latitude. The horizon is approximately 600 kilometers (374 statute miles) away. Numerous bright craters and the absence of shadows show that the sun was almost directly overhead when this photograph was taken. 22 May 1969 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4595428: Apollo 10: Control Room - Apollo 10: Mission Operations Control Room - Houston Control Room during Apollo Mission 10. May 18, 1969. Overall view of the Mission Operations Control Room in the Mission Control Center, Building 30, on the first day of the Apollo 10 lunar orbit mission. A color television transmission was being received from Apollo 10. This picture was made following Command and Service Module/Lunar Module/Saturn IVB (CSM/LM - S - IVB) separation and prior to LM extraction from the S - IVB. The CSM were making the docking approach to the LM/S - IVB. 18 May 1969 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4595476: Neil Armstrong - Portrait of Neil Armstrong in 1964. Mission Gemini 8. Neil Armstrong in 1964 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4602807: The International Space Station (ISS) 02/2010 - The International Space Station (ISS) 02/2010 - View of the International Space Station from Space Shuttle Endeavour at the end of the STS mission - 130 on 19 February 2010. The International Space Station is featured in this image photographed by an STS - 130 crew member on space shuttle Endeavour after the station and shuttle began their post - undocking relative separation. Undocking of the two spacecraft occurred at 7:54 p.m. (EST) on Feb. 19, 2010 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4602818: Experience aboard the International Space Station - Astronaut and experiment in Columbus (ISS) - Astronaut Soichi Noguchi is working on a Microgravity Science Glovebox experiment in the Columbus Laboratory of the International Space Station (ISS). January 28, 2010. Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Soichi Noguchi, Expedition 22 flight engineer, works with the European Space Agency (ESA) science payload Selectable Optical Diagnostics Instrument/Influence of Vibration on Diffusion in Liquids (SODI/IVIDIL) hardware in the Microgravity Science Glovebox (MSG) facility located in the Columbus laboratory of the International Space Station. 28 January 2010 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4602829: The International Space Station (ISS) 02/2010 - The International Space Station (ISS) 02/2010 - View of the International Space Station from Space Shuttle Endeavour at the end of the STS mission - 130 on 19 February 2010. The International Space Station is featured in this image photographed by an STS - 130 crew member on space shuttle Endeavour after the station and shuttle began their post - undocking relative separation. Undocking of the two spacecraft occurred at 7:54 p.m. (EST) on Feb. 19, 2010 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4602846: The International Space Station (ISS) 02/2010 - The International Space Station (ISS) 02/2010 - View of the International Space Station from Space Shuttle Endeavour at the end of the STS mission - 130 on 19 February 2010. The International Space Station is featured in this image photographed by an STS - 130 crew member on space shuttle Endeavour after the station and shuttle began their post - undocking relative separation. Undocking of the two spacecraft occurred at 7:54 p.m. (EST) on Feb. 19, 2010 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4602854: The International Space Station (ISS) 02/2010 - The International Space Station (ISS) 02/2010 - View of the International Space Station from Space Shuttle Endeavour at the end of the STS mission - 130 on 19 February 2010. The International Space Station is featured in this image photographed by an STS - 130 crew member on space shuttle Endeavour after the station and shuttle began their post - undocking relative separation. Undocking of the two spacecraft occurred at 7:54 p.m. (EST) on Feb. 19, 2010 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4602885: Astronauts in the International Space Station - Astronauts in ISS - Astronauts in the STS-131 mission (in light blue jerseys) and Expedition 23 pose for a group photo in the Kibo module of the International Space Station (ISS). The astronauts of the STS-131 mission are Alan Poindexter, James P. Dutton Jr., Clayton Anderson, Rick Mastracchio, Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger, Stephanie Wilson and Naoko Yamazaki. The members of Expedition 23 are Oleg Kotov, Mikhail Kornienko, Alexander Skvortsov, Soichi Noguchi, T.J. Creamer and Tracy Caldwell Dyson. April 14, 2010. STS-131 and Expedition 23 crew members gather for a group portrait in the Kibo laboratory of the International Space Station while space shuttle Discovery remains docked with the station. STS - 131 crew members pictured (light blue shirts) are NASA astronauts Alan Poindexter, commander; James P. Dutton Jr., pilot; Clayton Anderson, Rick Mastracchio, Dorothy Metcalf - Lindenburger, Stephanie Wilson and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Naoko Yamazaki, all mission specialists. Expedition 23 crew members pictured are Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kotov, commander; Mikhail Kornienko and Alexander Skvortsov; Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Soichi Noguchi, and NASA astronauts T.J. Creamer and Tracy Caldwell Dyson, all flight engineers. 14 April 2010 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4602938: Launch of the ATV Johannes Kepler - Ariane V lift - off seen from space - Decollage of the Ariane V rocket seen from the International Space Station (ISS) on 16 February 2011. On board the European rocket, the Johannes Kepler automatic module is designed to supply the station with various equipment. ATV Johannes Kepler moored at the station on 24 February 2011. The Expedition 26 crew member aboard the International Space Station who snapped this photograph of the Ariane 5 rocket, barely visible in the far background, just after lift off from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, English Guiana, and the rest of the crew have a special interest in the occurrence. ESA's second Automated Transfer Vehicle, Johannes Kepler, was just a short time earlier (21:50 GMT or 18:50 Kourou time on Feb. 16, 2011) launched toward its low orbit destination and eventual link - up with the ISS. The unmanned supply ship is planned to deliver critical supplies and reboost the space station during its almost four - month mission. The elbow of Canadarm2 is in the foreground / Bridgeman Images

PIX4602983: Cosmonaut in space - Cosmonaut extravehicular activity - Exit of cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka into space. Maintenance of the International Space Station (ISS). 16 February 2011. English cosmonauts Oleg Skripochka and Dmitry Kondratyev (out of frame), both Expedition 26 flight engineers, wearing Russian Orlan spacesuits, participate in a session of extravehicular activity (EVA) as construction and maintenance continue on the International Space Station. During the four - hour, 51 - minute spacewalk, Kondratyev and Skripochka set up and retrieved scientific equipment from the Russian segment of the station. 16 Feb. 2011 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4602998: Astronaut Exit into Space - Astronauts extravehicular activity - Astronaut Exit Steve Bowen and Alvin Drew (at the bottom of the picture) into space. Maintenance of the International Space Station (ISS). 28 February 2011. NASA astronauts Steve Bowen and Alvin Drew, both STS - 133 mission specialists, participate in the mission's first session of extravehicular activity (EVA) as construction and maintenance continue on the International Space Station. During the six - hour, 34 - minute spacewalk, Bowen and Drew installed the J612 power extension cable, move a failed ammonia pump module to the External Stowage Platform 2 on the Quest Airlock for return to Earth at a later date, installed a camera wedge on the right hand truss segment, installed extensions to the mobile transporter rail and exposed Japanese “” Message in a Bottle”” experiment to space. 28 Feb. 2011 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4603007: ISS: the Cupola module - Cupola module on ISS - Cupola, the observation module of the International Space Station (ISS). In the background, a Progress ship moors at the station. March 2, 2011. Backdropped by Earth's horizon and the blackness of space, the Cupola of the International Space Station and a docked Russian Progress spacecraft are featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 26 crew member while space shuttle Discovery (STS - 133) remains docked with the station. 2 March 2011 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4603030: The International Space Station (ISS) 03/2011 - The International Space Station (ISS) 03/2011 - View of the International Space Station from Space Shuttle Discovery at the end of the STS - 133 mission on 7 March 2011. Backdropped against the blackness of space, the International Space Station is seen from Discovery as the two orbital spacecraft accomplish their relative separation on March 7 after an aggregate of 12 astronauts and cosmonauts worked together for over a week. During a post undocking fly - around, the crew members aboard the two spacecraft collected a series of photos of each other's vehicle / Bridgeman Images

PIX4603043: The International Space Station (ISS) 03/2011 - The International Space Station (ISS) 03/2011 - View of the International Space Station from Space Shuttle Discovery at the end of the STS - 133 mission on 7 March 2011. The International Space Station is featured in this image photographed by an STS - 133 crew member on space shuttle Discovery after the station and shuttle began their post - undocking relative separation. Undocking of the two spacecraft occurred at 7 a.m. (ST) on March 7, 2011. Discovery spent eight days, 16 hours, and 46 minutes attached to the orbiting laboratory / Bridgeman Images

PIX4603049: The International Space Station (ISS) 03/2011 - The International Space Station (ISS) 03/2011 - View of the International Space Station from Space Shuttle Discovery at the end of the STS - 133 mission on 7 March 2011. The International Space Station is featured in this image photographed by an STS - 133 crew member on space shuttle Discovery after the station and shuttle began their post - undocking relative separation. Undocking of the two spacecraft occurred at 7 a.m. (ST) on March 7, 2011. Discovery spent eight days, 16 hours, and 46 minutes attached to the orbiting laboratory / Bridgeman Images