TEC4597474: Church Saint Sulpice, Place Saint Sulpice, Paris 6th arrondissement. From 1646, Queen Anne of Austria laid the first stone. But the troubles of the sling and the problems of financing slowed down the construction of the Church (architect Jean Nicolas Servandoni (1695-1766).), which was definitively completed only in 1774-1780. / Bridgeman Images
PIX4600219: The International Space Station 02/2001 - The International Space Station (ISS) 02/2001 - The Space Station seen from the Atlantis Shuttle. ISS STS - 98. 16/02/2001. The International Space Station (ISS) is backdropped against the blackness of space in this medium - distance, 70 mm frame, as photographed from the departing Space Shuttle Atlantis. The newly installed Destiny laboratory is in the left foreground. The crews of the Space Shuttle Atlantis and the International Space Station parted company at 8:06 a.m. (CST), February 16, as astronaut Mark L. Polansky, pilot, flew the shuttle halfway around the station and its new Destiny laboratory before moving off. Feb 16 2001 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4600435: Janet Kavandi in weightlessness in the International Space Station - Janet Kavandi in weightlessness in ISS 07/2001 - Astronaut Janet L. Kavandi filmed weightlessness in the Zvezda module of the International Space Station. 16 July 2001. Astronaut Janet L. Kavandi, STS - 104 mission specialist, uses a camera as she floats through the Zvezda service module aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The five STS - 104 crew members were visiting the orbital outpost to perform various tasks. The image was recorded with a digital still camera. July 16 200 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4600532: Crews in Destiny 08/01 - Group photo in Destiny. Expedition 3 (white jerseys) from bottom to top: Frank Culbertson, Vladimir Dezhurov and Mikhail Tyurin; STS - 105 (striped jerseys) from top to bottom and left: Scotthorowitz, Daniel Barry, Patrick Forrester and Frederick Sturckow; Expedition 2 (red jerseys) from bottom to top: Yury Helachev, James Voss and Suschev Ms. ISS STS - 105. 17/08/2001 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4600869: Back to Earth of the Soyuz TM capsule - 33 - 05/2002 - Return module of Soyuz TM - 33 - 05/2002 - View of the Soyuz TM capsule - 33 after landing in the Kazakhstan steppes on 5 May 2002. The recovery team is preparing to get astronauts Roberto Vittori, Yuri Gidzenko and Mark Shuttleworth out of the capsule. Russian recovery team members gather around the scorched return module of Soyuz TM - 33, shortly after its landing in the steppes of Kazakhstan and the completion of the Marco Polo mission to the International Space Station (ISS), on May 5, 2002. The recovery team is about to install a scaffolding to help the crew out the module. The Marco Polo mission, with ESA astronaut Roberto Vittori, from Italy, was performed under an agreement between Russia's Rosaviakosmos, the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and ESA. Roberto Vittori was launched into space onboard Soyuz TM - 34 at 12:26 local time on April 25 with Russian mission commander Yuri Gidzenko and South African flight participant Mark Shuttleworth. The spacecraft successfully docked with the ISS two days later. Roberto Vittori spent one week onboard the orbital outpost, performing experiments, and returned to Earth with his crewmates onboard Soyuz TM - 33. Soyuz TM - 33 landed safely some 26 km south - east of the city of Arkalyk in Kazakhstan, at 10:51 local time, concluding a mission that lasted 237 hours and 25 minutes / Bridgeman Images