PIX4643590: Bepicolombo will be a mission to explore the planet Mercury, carried out jointly by the Japanese Space Agency and the European Space Agency. Its launch is scheduled for October 2018, to reach Mercure in 2025. Two probes form the Bepicolombo mission, the Mercury Planet Orbiter (DFO), which will perform a complete mapping of the surface of Mercury, and the Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (MMO), which will study the Mercurian magnetosphere. On his 7-year journey, the probe will pass twice near Venus. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4643696: The gentleman Klaus Hofmaier (died 1427), in male dress of the 15th century - From a commemorative stone of the Church of St. Moritz in Augsburg (Germany) - Chromolithography, drawing by Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Alteneck (1811-1903), for his work “Costumes, crafts and instruments from the Middle Ages to the end of the 18th century “”, published by Heinrich Keller , Frankfurt, 1883 / Bridgeman Images
FLO4643711: Knight in armor, 15th century - Tombstone of Peter von Stettenberg, died 1428) - Chromolithography, drawing by Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Alteneck (1811-1903), for his book “Costumes, crafts and instruments from the Middle Ages to the end of the 18th century”, published by Heinrich Keller, Frankfurt, 1883 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4643732: The New Horizons probe near 2014 MU69 - Artist's View - New Horizons and 2014 MU69 (binary) - Artwork: Artist's view of the New Horizons probe near the small object of Kuiper 2014 MU69. Observations in 2017 show that 2014 MU69 would be either a binary object (model favors), in contact or not, or a single object lengthens. Speculative illustration of Nasa's New Horizons interplanetary probe flying by classical Kuiper belt object (486958) 2014 MU69, about 3 billion miles from the Earth, on 1 January 2019. 2014 MU69 is either a single elongated object about 30 miles long, or two smaller objects orbiting very closely together, maybe even touching; this image illustrates the latter. New Horizons is about the size and shape of a grand piano and weighed 1,054 pounds at launch. The high-gain dish antenna is about 7 feet in diameter and is employed for communication with the Earth / Bridgeman Images
FLO4643765: Knight in armor 15th century, with details of the bindings on the knees and elbows - Tombstone of Peter von Stettenberg, died 1441 - Chromolithography, drawing by Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Alteneck (1811-1903), for his book “Costumes, crafts and instruments from the Middle Ages to the end of the 18th century”, published by Heinrich Knights Eller, Frankfurt, 1883 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4643771: The New Horizons probe near 2014 MU69 - Artist's View - New Horizons and 2014 MU69 (single) - Artwork: Artist's view of the New Horizons probe near the small object of Kuiper 2014 MU69. Observations in 2017 show that 2014 MU69 would be either a binary object (model favors), in contact or not, or a single object lengthens (as here). Speculative illustration of Nasa's New Horizons interplanetary probe flying by classical Kuiper belt object (486958) 2014 MU69, about 3 billion miles from the Earth, on 1 January 2019. 2014 MU69 is either a single elongated object about 30 miles long, or two smaller objects orbiting very closely together, maybe even touching; this image illustrates the latter. New Horizons is about the size and shape of a grand piano and weighed 1,054 pounds at launch. The high-gain dish antenna is about 7 feet in diameter and is employed for communication with the Earth / Bridgeman Images
PIX4643784: The New Horizons probe near 2014 MU69 - Artist's View - New Horizons and 2014 MU69 (single) - Artwork: Artist's view of the New Horizons probe near the small object of Kuiper 2014 MU69. Observations in 2017 show that 2014 MU69 would be either a binary object (model favors), in contact or not, or a single object lengthens (as here). Speculative illustration of Nasa's New Horizons interplanetary probe flying by classical Kuiper belt object (486958) 2014 MU69, about 3 billion miles from the Earth, on 1 January 2019. 2014 MU69 is either a single elongated object about 30 miles long, or two smaller objects orbiting very closely together, maybe even touching; this image illustrates the latter. New Horizons is about the size and shape of a grand piano and weighed 1,054 pounds at launch. The high-gain dish antenna is about 7 feet in diameter and is employed for communication with the Earth / Bridgeman Images
PIX4640655: Space Shuttle of the Future - Artist's View - Terrene shuttle on launch pad - Artist's view of a space shuttle of the future on his shooting pitch. An imagined space shuttle of the future is readied for launch at twilight illumed by gantry lighting. This shuttle is referred to as “” terrene”” (meaning “” of the Earth”) to differentiate it from other space shuttles that may one day operate from the surface of the Moon and other planets / Bridgeman Images
PIX4640761: Clayton Anderson Extravehicular Release 07/2007 - Clay Anderson extravehicular activity 07/2007: Clayton (Clay) Anderson Extravehicular Release. ISS - Expedition 15. 23/07/2007 23 July 2007. Anchored to the Canadarm2 foot restraint, astronaut Clay Anderson, Expedition 15 flight engineer, removes the Early Ammonia Servicer (EAS) from its place on the International Space Station during a session of extravehicular activity (EVA). Anderson later jettisoned the EAS by shoving it opposite of the station's direction of travel. The EAS was installed on the P6 truss during STS-105 in August 2001, as an ammonia reservoir if a leak had occurred. It was never used, and was no longer needed after the permanent cooling system was activated last December. The blackness of space and Earth's horizon provide the backdrop for the scene. / Bridgeman Images
PIX4645282: Hubble space telescope: 4th maintenance mission 05/2009 - Hubble space telescope: fourth repair mission 05/2009 - The space telescope seen from Shuttle Atlantis before it was captured for its fourth maintenance mission, May 13, 2009. An STS - 125 crewmember onboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis snapped a still photo of the Hubble Space Telescope as the two spacecraft approached each other in Earth orbit prior to the capture of the giant observatory. 13 May 2009 / Bridgeman Images
FLO4645295: Swordfish, swordfish, Xiphias gladius. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieu's “” Dictionary of Natural Sciences”” 1816-1830. The volumes on fish and reptiles were edited by Hippolyte Cloquet, natural historian and doctor of medicine. Illustration by J.G. Pretre, engraved by Joyeau, directed by Turpin, and published by F. G. Lévrault. / Bridgeman Images
PIX4645327: Hubble space telescope: 4th maintenance mission 05/2009 - Hubble space telescope: fourth repair mission 05/2009 - Astronaut Andrew Feustel transports the new WFC3 (Wide Field Camera 3) camera during his first extravehicular exit to install it aboard the Hubble space telescope (HST). 14 May 2009. But for the absence of gravity, astronaut Andrew Feustel, perched on the end of the remote manipulator system arm, would be a bit top heavy as he helps to install the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) during a May 14 spacewalk to perform work on the Hubble Space Telescope. Out of frame is veteran astronaut John Grunsfeld, his spacewalking crewmate. The pair kicked off five back to back days of extravehicular activity for the STS - 125 crew. Feustel and Grunsfeld will participate in two of the remaining four spacewalks. 14 May 2009 / Bridgeman Images
FLO4645328: Spectacled caiman, cayman has glasses, Caiman crocodilus. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieu's “” Dictionary of Natural Sciences”” 1816-1830. The volumes on fish and reptiles were edited by Hippolyte Cloquet, natural historian and doctor of medicine. Illustration by J.G. Pretre, engraved by David, directed by Turpin, and published by F. G. Levrault. / Bridgeman Images
PIX4645395: Hubble space telescope: 4th maintenance mission 05/2009 - Hubble space telescope: fourth repair mission 05/2009 - Astronauts John Grunsfeld (on the robotic arm of the shuttle) and Andrew Feustel (down) during the fifth and last extravehicular exit to maintain the Hubble space telescope (HST). 18 May 2009. Astronaut John Grunsfeld, STS - 125 mission specialist, positioned on a foot restraint on the end of Atlantis' remote manipulator system (RMS), and astronaut Andrew Feustel (bottom center), mission specialist, participate in the mission's fifth and final session of extravehicular activity (EVA) as work continues to refurbish and upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope. During the seven - hour and two - minute spacewalk, Grunsfeld and Feustel installed a battery group replacement, removed and replaced a Fine Guidance Sensor and three thermal blankets (NOBL) protecting Hubble's electronics. 18 May 2009 / Bridgeman Images
FLO4645403: Large pink nymph thigh, great maiden's blush rose, Rosa alba hybrid, and Duchess of Portland rose, Rosa portlandica. Handcoloured illustration by Pancrace Bessa stipple engraved by Teillard from Charles Malos “” Histoire des Roses,”” Paris, 1818. A gift book for ladies with 12 miniature botanicals by Bessa, one of the great English flower painters of the 19th century. / Bridgeman Images
PIX4645420: Hubble space telescope: 4th maintenance mission 05/2009 - Hubble space telescope: fourth repair mission 05/2009 - Astronauts John Grunsfeld (on the robotic arm of the shuttle) and Andrew Feustel during the fifth and last extravehicular exit to maintain the Hubble space telescope (HST). 18 May 2009. Astronaut John Grunsfeld, STS - 125 mission specialist, positioned on a foot restraint on the end of Atlantis' remote manipulator system (RMS), and astronaut Andrew Feustel (top center), mission specialist, participate in the mission's fifth and final session of extravehicular activity (EVA) as work continues to refurbish and upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope. During the seven - hour and two - minute spacewalk, Grunsfeld and Feustel installed a battery group replacement, removed and replaced a Fine Guidance Sensor and three thermal blankets (NOBL) protecting Hubble's electronics. 18 May 2009 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4645452: Hubble space telescope: end of the 4th maintenance mission 05/2009 - Hubble space telescope: end of the fourth repair mission - The Hubble space telescope (HST) seen from space shuttle Atlantis after their separation on 19 May 2009. An STS - 125 crew member aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis captured this still image of the Hubble Space Telescope as the two spacecraft begin their relative separation on May 19, after having been linked together for the better part of a week. During the week five spacewalks were performed to complete the final servicing. 19 May 2009 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4645465: Hubble space telescope: end of the 4th maintenance mission 05/2009 - Hubble space telescope: end of the fourth repair mission - The Hubble space telescope (HST) seen from space shuttle Atlantis after their separation on 19 May 2009. An STS - 125 crew member aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis captured this still image of the Hubble Space Telescope as the two spacecraft begin their relative separation on May 19, after having been linked together for the better part of a week. During the week five spacewalks were performed to complete the final servicing. 19 May 2009 / 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