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
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
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
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
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
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
PIX4644547: Satellite Meteosat in test in Cannes - A first generation Meteosat weather satellite undergoes final checks - View of a first generation Meteosat satellite in an Aerospatiale building in Cannes. A first generation Meteosat weather satellite undergoes final checks at Aerospace's satellite plant in Cannes, on the English Riviera / Bridgeman Images
PIX4645744: James Webb Space Telescope Mirrors (JWST) - Testing of the JWST's mirrors - Six of the 18 JWST (James Webb Space Telescope) mirrors seen at Nasa's Marshall Space Center. These mirrors will be tested there to ensure they will withstand the extreme temperatures of space vacuum. The JWST will replace the Hubble Space Telescope in 2014. Equipped with a 6.5 m mirror, he will observe the universe mainly in infrared. Six of the 18 James Webb Space Telescope mirror segments are being moved into the X - ray and Cryogenic Facility, or XRCF, at Nasa's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., to eventually experience temperatures dipping to a chilling - 414 degrees Fahrenheit to ensure they can withstand the extreme space environments. The test chamber takes approximately five days to cool a mirror segment to cryogenic temperatures. Marshall's X - ray & Cryogenic Facility is the world's largest X - ray telescope test facility and a unique, cryogenic, clean room optical test location. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large, infrared - optimized space telescope scheduled for launch in 2014. Equipped with a large mirror 6.5 meters (21.3 feet) in diameter, it will find the first galaxies that formed in the early Universe, connecting the Big Bang to our own Milky Way Galaxy and will reside in an orbit about 1.5 million km (1 million miles) from the Earth / Bridgeman Images
PIX4645650: Satellite Kepler - Kepler spacecraft - Kepler satellite in clean room. Kepler is a satellite launched in March 2009, designed to discover inhabitable exoplanets in our galaxy. Nasa's Kepler spacecraft in a clean room at Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. in Boulder, Colorado. Kepler is a spaceborne telescope launched in march 2009 and designed to search the nearby region of our galaxy for Earth - size planets orbiting in the habitable zone of stars like our sun / 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
PIX4646376: SolarMax Satellite Repair Mission 04/1984 - Solar Maximum Mission repair 04/1984 - View of astronaut James Van Hoften in space shuttle Challenger hold. The astronaut participates in an extravehicular excursion to repair the Solar Max satellite (Solar Maximum Mission or SMM). 11 April 1984. Wide angle view of mission specialist James D. van Hoften participating in an extravehicular activity (EVA) to repair the “” captured” Solar Maximum Mission Satellite (SMMS) in the aft end of the Challenger's cargo bay. Astronaut van Hoften is standing in the payload bay facing the camera. The Solar SMMS is behind him. To the right of the photo is the remote manipulator system (RMS) arm used to capture the satellite. Behind the orbiter is a view of the cloudy earth. 11/04/198 / 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
PIX4646470: STS-1: Columbia on its shooting pad 03/1981 - STS - 1: Columbia at launch pad. March 1981 - Shuttle Columbia in place on its firing pad for the first flight STS - 1. 05/03/1981. A timed exposure of the Space Shuttle, STS-1, at Launch Pad A, Complex 39, turns the space vehicle and support facilities into a night - time fantasy of light. Structures to the left of the Shuttle are the fixed and the rotating service structure / Bridgeman Images