PIX4641957: Mir station. V.Polyakov - The Mir station seen from Discovery - Valeriy Polyakov at the Mir window during the stowage of the space station with the shuttle Discovery. 06/02/1995. Cosmonaut Valeriy Polyakov, who boarded Russia's Mir space station on Jan 8 1994, looks out Mir's window during rendezvous operations with the Space Shuttle Discovery during the STS - 63 mission. Feb 06 1995 / Bridgeman Images
FLO4642030: Small common centauree or small red centeuree or erythree - Lithograph by F. Guimpel, extracted from medical botany by Friedrich Gottlob Haynes (1763-1832), Berlin, 1822 - Common centaury, Centaurium erythraea - Handcoloured copperplate by F. Guimpel from Dr. F. G. Hayne's Medical Botany, Berlin, 1822 / Bridgeman Images
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
PIX4642742: A satellite is directed to a cemetery orbit - Reorbiting a spacecraft into a graveyard orbit - Artist's view of a satellite in geostationary orbit at the end of the mission directs to a cemetery orbit. In order to prevent possible collisions, the satellite must be placed 300 km above its initial orbit. In order to eliminate collision risk, GEO satellites should be moved out of the geostationary ring at the end of their mission. It is recommended that their orbit should be raised by about 300 km, which is considered a safe distance to avoid future interference with active GEO spacecraft / Bridgeman Images
PIX4642769: Space Debris: Meteosat type satellite - Space debris: Meteosat satellite - Artist's view of a Meteosat satellite when it is put into orbit. As with many satellites, orbit operations cause new space debris (ejection of covers, bolts...); in view of the dangerous increase in space debris, it is imperative to design cleaner satellites today (here a cover remains attached to the satellite). A measure against space debris is minimizing the number of objects released during spacecraft operations. Typical “” mission - related objects”” (MRO) include adapters used between two satellites in a dual launch, telescope covers, bolts, cast off yo - yo spinners, etc. Spacecraft designers and operators must design missions so that objects stay attached to the spacecraft and do not become additional space debris / Bridgeman Images
FLO4642821: Carline acaule or Cardabelle (gardabelle) - Lithograph by F. Guimpel, extracted from botanical medicale by Friedrich Gottlob Haynes (1763-1832), Berlin, 1822 - Dwarf carline thistle, Carlina acaulis - Handcoloured copperplate by F. Guimpel from Dr. F. G. Hayne's Medical Botany, Berlin, 1822 / 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