EVB2942201: Russian Mission Control Center in Korolev, outside Moscow. The monitors show live video from the Soyuz TMA-11 spacecraft of the International Space Station. Oct. 12, 2007 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2942209: Future astronaut Sullivan, wearing a high altitude pressure suit. She set the women's record for sustained American aviation altitude, flying at 63,300 feet on July 1, 1979. Future astronaut Sullivan, wearing a high altitude pressure suit, later served on three Space Shuttle missions / Bridgeman Images

EVB2942211: Commander Eileen Collins (right front, waving) with Space Shuttle Mission 114 crew en route to the Launch Pad. July 2005 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2942218: First manned Space rendezvous. Gemini 7 and Gemini 6 maneuvered together in Earth orbit. Image shows Gemini 7 from the Gemini 6. Dec. 15, 1965 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2942219: Launch of the first Hermes A-1 rocket at White Sand Proving Ground. It combined the Herman V-2 exterior shape with entirely new internal design. May 5, 1950 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2942230: Dr. Werhner von Braun with Walt Disney. Von Braun worked with Disney Studios as a technical director, making three films about space exploration for television in 1954 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2942231: Apollo Project's prototype of the Lunar Landing Module in an early test flight / Bridgeman Images

EVB2942238: Apollo 12 Astronaut Alan Bean deploys scientific experiments on the lunar surface. Nov. 19, 1969 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2942239: Apollo 12 Pacific recovery. Astronauts are in a life raft near the Command module with a Helicopter hovering above. Nov. 24, 1969 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2942261: Launch of Endeavour, the 113th space shuttle mission. It delivered a structure for the International Space Station, ferried the Expedition 6 crew, and returned Expedition 5 crew. Nov. 13, 2002 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2942262: Space shuttle Atlantis re-entry flight path resembles a bean sprout against clouds and city lights. Photograph by the Expedition 28 crew in the International Space Station. May 23, 2011 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2942264: Star Trek television cast members at the roll out of the Space shuttle prototype Enterprise, 1976 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2942282: Space shuttle Challenger disaster. Grey-brown smoke on the right side of the Solid Rocket Booster, in highlighted circle, was the first visible sign a joint breach occurred. Jan. 28, 1986 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2942284: Space shuttle Challenger disaster. Challenger is completely engulfed in a fiery flow of escaping liquid propellant. Jan. 28, 1986 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2942288: Space shuttle Challenger disaster. Six image sequence of the Challenger explosion in progress from 58.8 to 109.6 seconds after launch. Jan. 28, 1986 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2942298: Launch of Skylab on a two-stage Saturn V missile. The unmanned launch carried the Worlds first space station into Earth Orbit. May 14, 1973 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2942306: Skylab 4 Astronaut Ed Gibson preparing his meal aboard the Skylab space station. Skylab 4 mission lasted 84 days, testing the effects of prolonged zero gravity. Nov. 16, 1973 -Feb. 8, 1974 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2942312: Iranians demonstrating in Tehran in support of the Shah in 1959 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2942317: American soldiers reads in the shade under a US Marine tank in Beirut, Lebanon. The US intervention in Lebanon's was the first application of the Eisenhower Doctrine, which protected regimes threatened by international communism. July 1958 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2942327: Hillary Clinton, US Secretary of State, speaking at George Washington University, on August 16, 2011 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2942335: Scientists with a model of the molecular structure of cortisone. Senator Joseph O'Mahoney (center), with National Institute of Health scientists' Dr. Floyd S. Daft, and Dr. Joseph J. Bunim. 1956 July 17, 1956 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2942340: Yolande Betbeze, Alabama's entry won the 1951 Miss America beauty contest. After winning the title she refused to wear a bathing suit at public events. She later marched for civil rights, took part in Woolworth sit-ins, and marched in a feminist demonstration against Miss America pageant / Bridgeman Images

EVB2942352: Technicians in a nuclear reactor control room at NASA's Plum Brook Station in Sandusky, Ohio. 1959 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2942371: Family basement fallout shelter. It was supplied with a 14-day food and water supply, a battery-operated radio, auxiliary light sources, first aid, sanitary and other equipment. Early 1950s / Bridgeman Images

EVB2942376: The B53 was a high-yield bunker buster thermonuclear weapon developed by the United States during the 1960s Cold War. Over 300 were produced, each with a with 9 megatons yield. The stockpile's dismantlement was completed in 2011, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2942385: A nuclear engineer is protected from radiation by a fifty-two inch thick oil-filled, glass window as he operates a robotic arm. NASA's Plum Brook Station in Sandusky, Ohio, 1961 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2942395: NASA's new spacecraft is an enlarged updated capsule will fly astronauts into space following the retirement of the Space Shuttles in 2012 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2942405: Mosaic image of Mars taken by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover 'Opportunity'. January 2012 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2942431: Nuclear 'Operation Cue' tested buildings' ability to survive atomic bombs. Before and after photos of a two-story wood frame house 5,500 feet from ground zero. April 4, 1955 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2942440: Presidential candidate Dwight Eisenhower speaking to a crowd at a whistle-stop event near a Midwest steel mill. Sept. 16, 1952 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2942441: Eisenhower's First Inauguration. Chief Justice Frederick Vinson administering the oath of office to Dwight D. Eisenhower on the east portico of the U.S. Capitol, January 20, 1953 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2942442: Eisenhower's First Inauguration. President Dwight Eisenhower accepts the cheers of the crowd after his inauguration, with Harry Truman and Senator Styles Bridges looking on. January 20, 1953 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2942450: First Lady Mamie Eisenhower. c. 1960 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2942454: Benjamin J. Davis speaking at the Negro Freedom Rally, Madison Square Garden, New York City. June 25, 1945. He was an admitted communist who represented Harlem on the New York City Council from 1943-1949 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2942461: Robert Rossen, movie producer, testifying before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1953. Rossen had been a member of the American Communist Party from 1937 to 1947. He was blacklisted in 1951 when he refused to testify to the HUAC. In 1953, at his second HUAC appearance he named 57 people as current or former Communists and was removed from the blacklist. His most notable films were ALL THE KINGS MEN (1949) and THE HUSTLER (1961) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2942466: Senator Joseph McCarthy, leaving Waldorf-Astoria hotel in 1954 / Bridgeman Images