PIX4648080: Depart of astronauts STS - 107 01/2003 - STS - 107 crew is going to launch pad - 16/01/2003. The crew of the STS-107 mission joins firing pad 39A for decolving. Front, from left to right, Ilan Ramon, Kalpana Chawla and William “” Willie”” McCool; behind them, from left to right, Michael Anderson, David Brown, Laurel Clark, and Rick Husband. The STS - 107 crew heads for the Astrovan and a ride to Launch Pad 39A for liftoff. From left to right are Payload Commander Michael Anderson, Mission Specialist David Brown, Payload Specialist Ilan Ramon, Mission Specialists Laurel Clark and Kalpana Chawla, Mission Commandaer Rick Husband and Pilot William “” Willie””” McCool. Ramon is the first astronaut from Israel to fly on a Shuttle. The 16 - day mission is devoted to research and will include more than 80 experiments that will study Earth and space science, advanced technology development, and astronaut health and safety. The payload on Space Shuttle Columbia includes FREESTAR (Fast Reaction Experiments Enabling Science, Technology, Applications and Research) and the SHI Research Double Module (SHI/RDM), known as SPACEHAB. Experiments on the module range from material sciences to life sciences. Liftoff is scheduled for 10:39 a.m. EST / Bridgeman Images

PIX4648321: Shuttle Atlantis STS - 112 view of ISS 10/2002 - Shuttle Atlantis approaches the International Space Station 10/2002 - Atlantis photographed by an Expedition Five crewmember onboard the International Space Station (ISS) during rendezvous and docking operations. Oct 09 2002 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4648095: Shuttle clearance Columbia STS - 107 01/2003 - Launch of STS - 107 Shuttle Columbia - Launch of STS - 107 Shuttle Columbia from Launch Pad 39A. Jan 16 2003 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4648348: Aerial view of launch pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center - Aerial view of Launch Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center - aerial view of Launch Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center, showing the Space Shuttle Discovery at center / Bridgeman Images

TEC4648420: La Promenade des Anglais, Hotel Negresco, 37 Promenade des Anglais in Nice (Alpes Maritimes). Architect Edouard Niermans, 1912. Photography 27/01/07. / Bridgeman Images

TEC4648431: La Promenade des Anglais, Hotel Negresco, 37 Promenade des Anglais in Nice (Alpes Maritimes). Architect Edouard Niermans, 1912. Photography 27/01/07. / Bridgeman Images

TEC4648728: Victorian building in London (Great Britain). / Bridgeman Images

FLO4648474: Kanran orchid, Cymbidium kanran Makino. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Kusa Bana Hyakushu (One Hundred Varieties of Flowers), Tokyo, Yamada, 1901. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4648735: Kouka or kujin, Sophora flavescens. Root used in Chinese medicine as ku shen. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Kusa Bana Hyakushu (One Hundred Varieties of Flowers), Tokyo, Yamada, 1901. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4648595: Nouzenharen or garden nasturtium, Tropaeolum majus. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Kusa Bana Hyakushu (One Hundred Varieties of Flowers), Tokyo, Yamada, 1901. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4648638: Dispatch of space shuttle Atlantis on 8 June 2007. Mission STS-11 / Bridgeman Images

FLO4648665: Iwatabako, Conandron ramondioides. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Kusa Bana Hyakushu (One Hundred Varieties of Flowers), Tokyo, Yamada, 1901. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4648695: Habusou or coffee senna, Senna occidentalis. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Kusa Bana Hyakushu (One Hundred Varieties of Flowers), Tokyo, Yamada, 1901. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4646805: Discovery Shuttle Discovery 04/1990 - Launch of Shuttle Discovery STS - 31. Apr 24 1990 - Decolving the Discovery shuttle (STS-31 mission) with Loren Shriver, Charles Bolden, Steven Hawley, Bruce McCandless and Kathryn Sullivan and the Hubble telescope. In the foreground, the Columbia shuttle is on its fire pad. 24/04/1990. The Space Shuttle Columbia on Pad 39A “” watches”” the picture - perfect ascent of sister ship Discovery after liftoff of STS - 31. This was the first time since January 1986 that there was a Shuttle on each pad, which are separated by 1.6 miles. Discovery, carrying a five - member crew and the Hubble SpaceTelescope, lifted off at 8:34 EDT, April 24. Columbia, with its Astro - 1 observatory, is scheduled for launch in May / Bridgeman Images

PIX4646834: Decollage Columbia STS - 32 01 - 1990 - Decollage of the shuttle Columbia STS - 32 with Daniel Brandenstein, James Wetherbee, Bonnie Dunbar, Marsha Ivins and George Low. 09 - 01 - 1990 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4646783: Astronauts in the shuttle Atlantis - 12/1988 - Astronauts in Space Shuttle Atlantis. December 1988 - Astronauts William Shepherd (upstairs) and Guy Gardner float in the space shuttle Atlantis (Mission STS-27). December 1988. Astronauts William M. Shepherd (top), mission specialist, and Guy S. Gardner, pilot, float on the middeck of the Earth - orbiting Space Shuttle Atlantis. Sleep stations are seen in the background. Just above Shepherd's head is part of the new escape pole that will be on each craft in the shuttle fleet, an added element following the Challenger accident of January 1986. Shepherd is strapped to a chair which floats with him / Bridgeman Images

PIX4646870: Shuttle Columbia 06/1991 - Space shuttle Columbia is landing 06/1991 - Landing of Shuttle Columbia STS-40. This flight was the first mission in space devoted to the study of the reaction of the body in weightlessness and its readaptation to the return to Earth. 14/06/1991. Columbia before landing on Runway 22 at Edwards, California. STS-40 was the first space shuttle mission dedicated to life sciences research to explore how the body reacts to a weightless environment and how it readjusts to gravity on return to earth. Jun 14 1991 / Bridgeman Images

FLO4646806: Mushrooms: milk pepper - Japanese print by Kanen Iwasaki (1786-1842), from Honzo Zufu, illustrative guide to medicinal plants, 1916 - Tsuchigamuri mushroom, Lactarius piperita - Colour printed woodblock engraving by Kan'en Iwasaki, from “” Honzo Zufu””, 1916 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4646902: Astronaut Roberta Bondar in the rotating chair 01/1992 - Astronaut Roberta Bondar in rotator chair - Roberta Bondar in the spacelab module, prepares for the experience of the rotating chair in order to experiment with the effects of microgravite on the vestibular system (the main sensory system of perception of motion and orientation in relation to vertical). 01/1992. STS - 42 Payload Specialist Roberta L. Bondar gets into the Microgravity Vestibular Investigations rotator chair to begin an experiment. The chair is mounted in the center aisle of the International Microgravity Laboratory 1 spacelab module. Just above Bondar's head is the helmet assembly which is outfitted with accelerometers to measure head movements and visors that fit over each eye independently to provide visual stimuli. The chair system has three movement patterns: “” sinusoidal”” or traveling predictably back and forth over the same distance at a constant speed; “” pseudorandom””” or moving back and forth over varying distances; and “” stepped”””” or varying speeds beginning and stopping suddenly. 01/199 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4647057: Extravehicular activity - Astronaut Mark Lee floats free of tether during EVA. Sep 16 1994 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4647402: Data verification in Discovery 08/1997 - Data checking in space shuttle Discovery. 08/1997 - Astronaut Curtis Brown checks 50 pages of data sent by flight controllers. 08/1997. At the Space Shuttle Discovery's Thermal Imaging Printing System (TIPS) station, Curtis Brown checks some 50 pages of data sent up by flight controllers. Aug 1997 / Bridgeman Images

FLO4647408: Variety of camelias from Japan (Thea japonica Nois): Shirataki and Shiroshishi, with white flowers. Eau forte en couleurs, woodcut by Kanen Iwasaki (1786-1842) botanist, entomology and Japanese zoology, published in Honzo Zufu, in 1884, an illustrative guide to Mždicinal plants. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4647277: Variety of camelias from Japan (Thea japonica Nois): Iso Arashi, with pea-spotted flowers. Eau forte en couleurs, woodcut by Kanen Iwasaki (1786-1842) botanist, entomology and Japanese zoology, published in Honzo Zufu, in 1884, an illustrative guide to Mždicinal plants. / Bridgeman Images

TEC4647349: General view of Berlin (Germany). Photograph 15/08/03. / Bridgeman Images

TEC4647356: Plunging view of the Postdamerplatz in Berlin (Germany). / Bridgeman Images

FLO4647380: Variety of camelias from Japan (Thea japonica Nois): Ariake and Hagomoro, with pink and white flowers. Eau forte en couleurs, woodcut by Kanen Iwasaki (1786-1842) botanist, entomology and Japanese zoology, published in Honzo Zufu, in 1884, an illustrative guide to medicinal plants. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4645472: Hubble space telescope - Artist view - Hubble space telescope - Artist view - The Hubble space telescope is a telescope orbiting the Earth at about 600 km altitude. It is 13 metres long, its main mirror has a diameter of 2.4 metres. He is equipped with spectrometer and several cameras observing the Universe in visible and infrared. The Hubble space telescope is in orbit at about 600 km around the Earth. This 13 meters in length telescope with a mirror of 2.4 meters (94.5 inches) in diameter is also equipped of many cameras and a spectrometer to observe the Universe in the visible and infrared light / Bridgeman Images

TEC4645631: Le Cinema Le Luxor in Paris 75018. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4646593: Rose has a hundred leaves, Rosa centifolia. Handcoloured copperplate engraving of an illustration by Miss Prudhomme from “” Hommage rendu a la Rose,”” Paris, circa 1815. A gift book with the history of the rose and a dozen botanical miniatures. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4646354: Spartan 201 satellite - Spartan 201 satellite seen over the Earth from space shuttle Discovery in September 1994. Astronauts onboard the space shuttle Discovery used a 70 mm camera to capture this photograph of the retrieval operations with the Shuttle Pointed Autonomous Research Tool for Astronomy 201 (SPARTAN 201). A gibbous moon can be seen in the background. 9 - 20 Sep 1994 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4646631: Columbia STS - 5 11/1982 - Shuttle Columbia post - landing 11 - 1982 - Shuttle Columbia STS-5 after landing. She had Vance Brand, Bob Overmyer, Joseph Allen and Bill Lenoir on board. 16/11/1982. Shuttle Columbia post - landing tow. Columbia was launched on mission STS-5 on Nov 11 1982. Nov 16 1982 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4646427: Crew STS - 1 in training 04/1979 - STS - 1 crew in training - John Young and Robert Crippen during the prealable tests for the first test flight of the shuttle in orbit scheduled for the following year. April 1979. John Young and Robert Crippen preview some of the intravehicular activity expected to take place during Nasa's first Shuttle orbiter flight test. Apr 1979 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4646613: Columbia STS - 1 04/81 - First Columbia landing. STS-1. Apr 14 1981 - Landing of Shuttle Columbia STS-1. Edwards Air Force Base, California. 14/04/1981. Orbiter Columbia is landing at Rogers dry lake Runway 23, successfully completing the historic first flight for the Space Shuttle. Astronauts John Young, Commander, and Robert Crippen, Pilot, crewed the spacecraft for the first full test of the Space Transportation System / Bridgeman Images

PIX4648019: Shuttle Columbia STS - 107 on its fire pad 01/2003 - Shuttle Columbia on launch pad - 01/2003 - Shuttle Columbia after rollback of the Rotating Service Structure on Launch Pad 39A / Bridgeman Images

FLO4648025: Japanese wild ginger, Asarum caulescens Maxim. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Kusa Bana Hyakushu (One Hundred Varieties of Flowers), Tokyo, Yamada, 1901. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4648047: Launch of the shuttle Atlantis STS - 106 09/2000 - Launch of STS - 106 Atlantis - 09/2000 - Launch of STS - 106 Atlantis. The crew will perform support tasks on orbit, transfer supplies and prepare the living quarters in the newly arrived Zvezda Service Module. Sep 09 2000 / Bridgeman Images