PIX4648050: Crew Columbia STS - 107 - 12/2002 - STS - 107 crew 12/2002 - 19/12/2002 Front row (de g.a d.) Ilan Ramon, William Willie McCool and David Brown. Derriere, Michael Anderson, Kalpana Chawla, Rick Husband and Laurel Clark. The STS - 107 crew poses in front of the entry into Space Shuttle Columbia during Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test activities on the pad. Kneeling in front are (left to right) Payload Specialist Ilan Ramon (the first Israeli astronaut), Pilot William “” Willie”” McCool and Mission Specialist David Brown. Standing in back are (left to right) Payload Commander Michael Anderson, Mission Specialist Kalpana Chawla, Commander Rick Husband and Mission Specialist Laurel Clark. The TCDT also includes a simulated launch countdown. STS-107 is a mission 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. Launch is planned for Jan. 16, 2003, between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. EST aboard Columbia / Bridgeman Images
FLO4649272: Adam rose, variety of the tea rose raised by Monsieur Adam of Reims in 1838. Chromolithograph drawn and lithographed after nature by F. Grobon from Hippolyte Jamain and Eugene Forney's “” Les Roses,” Paris, J. Rothschild, 1873. Jamain was a rose grower and Forney a professor of arboriculture. Francois Frederic GROBON (1815-1901) ran his own atelier and illustrated “” Fleurs” after Redoute with his brother Anthelme as the Grobon freres. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4649228: Souvenir d'un ami rose, hybrid tea rose, raised by an amateur in Moulins in 1846. Chromolithograph drawn and lithographed after nature by F. Grobon from Hippolyte Jamain and Eugene Forney's “” Les Roses,” Paris, J. Rothschild, 1873. Jamain was a rose grower and Forney a professor of arboriculture. Francois Frederic GROBON (1815-1901) ran his own atelier and illustrated “” Fleurs” after Redoute with his brother Anthelme as the Grobon freres. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4649673: Falkland Wolf or Falkland Fox or Antarctic Wolf - Lithograph by William Lizars, illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith, from “” Naturalist Library: Canides”, 1839 - Falkland Island Aguara-dog, Dusicyon australis, Extinct around 1870 - Handcoloured engraving by William Lizars from a drawing by Colonel Charles Hamilton Smith from Sir William Jardine's “” Naturalist's Library: Dogs”” Edinburgh, 1839 / Bridgeman Images
FLO4649943: Bocachico or koulimata, Prochilodus rubrotaeniatus (Pale red-streaked salmon carp, Prochilodus rubro-taeniatus). Handcoloured steel engraving by W.H. Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart from Robert Schomburg's Fishes of Guiana, part of Sir William Jardine's Naturalist's Library: Ichthyology, Edinburgh, 1841. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4649971: Title page with vignette showing Native Americans fishing with bow and arrow, nets and clubs, on the Essequibo river. Steel engraving by W.H. Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart from Robert Schomburg's Fishes of Guiana, part of Sir William Jardine's Naturalist's Library: Ichthyology, Edinburgh, 1841. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4647737: Variete of camellia Olivetana (Camellia japonica, Thea japonica), with pink flowers slightly veins of white. Lithograph of L. Stroobant de Ghent, based on a drawing by P. Stroobant, published around 1880 in L'Illustration Horticole by Jean Jules Linden (1817-1898), Belgian botanist and explorer. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4648942: John Hopper rose, hybrid variety put on the market in 1865. Chromolithograph drawn and lithographed after nature by F. Grobon from Hippolyte Jamain and Eugene Forney's “” Les Roses,” Paris, J. Rothschild, 1873. Jamain was a rose grower and Forney a professor of arboriculture. Francois Frederic GROBON (1815-1901) ran his own atelier and illustrated “” Fleurs” after Redoute with his brother Anthelme as the Grobon freres. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4648953: Rose hundred leaves, Rosa centifolia, the “” most beautiful and oldest of the roses.”” Chromolithograph drawn and lithographed after nature by F. Grobon from Hippolyte Jamain and Eugene Forney's “” Les Roses,” Paris, J. Rothschild, 1873. Jamain was a rose grower and Forney a professor of arboriculture. Francois Frederic GROBON (1815-1901) ran his own atelier and illustrated “” Fleurs” after Redoute with his brother Anthelme as the Grobon freres. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4648976: Jean Pernet rose, yellow variety of the tea rose raised by Monsieur Pernet of Lyon in 1867. Chromolithograph drawn and lithographed after nature by F. Grobon from Hippolyte Jamain and Eugene Forney's “” Les Roses,” Paris, J. Rothschild, 1873. Jamain was a rose grower and Forney a professor of arboriculture. Francois Frederic GROBON (1815-1901) ran his own atelier and illustrated “” Fleurs” after Redoute with his brother Anthelme as the Grobon freres. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4649286: Baron de Gonella rose, variety of the Ile-Bourbon rose, raised by Monsieur Guillot Sr. at Lyon in 1859. Chromolithograph drawn and lithographed after nature by F. Grobon from Hippolyte Jamain and Eugene Forney's “” Les Roses,” Paris, J. Rothschild, 1873. Jamain was a rose grower and Forney a professor of arboriculture. Francois Frederic GROBON (1815-1901) ran his own atelier and illustrated “” Fleurs” after Redoute with his brother Anthelme as the Grobon freres. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4649744: Armored catfish species, Acanthicus hystrix. Porcupine acanthicus, Acanthicus histrix. Fort St. Joaquin in the distance. Handcoloured steel engraving by W.H. Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart from Robert Schomburg's Fishes of Guiana, part of Sir William Jardine's Naturalist's Library: Ichthyology, Edinburgh, 1841. / Bridgeman Images
PIX4612093: Spiral galaxy M63 (NGC 5055) in Hunting Dogs - Spiral galaxy M63 - The spiral galaxy M63 (NGC 5055) is about 35 million years away - light from Earth. Image obtained with a 50 cm telescope, composite of several poses. M63 (NGC 5055) is a spiral glaxy in the contellation Canes Venatici at about 35 million light - years from Earth / Bridgeman Images