PIX4603205: The International Space Station (ISS) 07/2011 - The International Space Station (ISS) 07/2011 - View of the International Space Station from Space Shuttle Atlantis at the end of the STS - 135 mission on 19 July 2011. The Tibetan plateau and the western part of the Himalayas are visible. This picture of the International Space Station was photographed from the space shuttle Atlantis as the orbiting complex and the shuttle performed their relative separation in the early hours of July 19, 2011 The western Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau are visible below. Onboard the station were Russian cosmonauts Andrey Borisenko, Expedition 28 commander; Sergei Volkov and Alexander Samokutyaev, both flight engineers; Japan Aerospace Exploration astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, and NASA astronauts Mike Fossum and Ron Garan, all flight engineers. Onboard the shuttle were NASA astronauts Chris Ferguson, STS - 135 commander; Doug Hurley, pilot; and Sandy Magnus and Rex Walheim, both mission specialists / Bridgeman Images
PIX4603340: Cygnus Cargo 01/2014 - Cygnus automatic module mooring at the Harmony module of the International Space Station (ISS) on January 12, 2014. The Orbital Sciences Corp. Cygnus commercial cargo craft attached to the end of the Canadarm2 robotic arm of the International Space Station is photographed by an Expedition 38 crew member during rendezvous and berthing operations on Jan. 12, 2014 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4603747: Hermes Space Shuttle - Artist's view - European spaceplane Hermes - Illustration - Cross-section view of the European Space Shuttle Hermes project, 1991. This reusable space plane was to be launched by an Ariane 5 rocket and take several spationauts into space. The project under study in the 1980s was finally abandoned in 1993. Cutaway made in 1991 showing the european space shuttle Hermes. This space shuttle was to be launched atop an ariane 5 rocket and should carry astronauts and payloads in space. First studied at the beginning of eighties, this project was cancelled in 1993 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4669704: Southern aurora and Orion constellation observed from the shuttle Endeavour in April 1994. - Southern aurora and Orion constellation observed from the shuttle Endeavour in April 1994. - Southern aurora and Orion constellation observed from the shuttle Endeavour in April 1994. / Bridgeman Images
PIX4635695: South Hemisphere - This is a long exposure (about an hour) made with an ordinary camera and colour film. It shows a crowded and dusty stretch of the southern Milky Way. The Galactic plane runs roughly NE to SW across the middle of the picture, which is about 40 degrees across. At the centre-left lies the direction of the nucleus of our Galaxy, unseen behind dense clouds of dust: The Lactee Way in the Scorpion - Southern Milky Way / Bridgeman Images
PIX4675177: The Moon Above the Earth's Atmosphere - Half moon above Earth's atmosphere - Quarter de lune observed from the International Space Station (ISS) in July 2009. A last quarter moon above Earth's atmosphere is featured in this view, photographed by an Expedition 20 crewmember on the International Space Station in july 2009 / Bridgeman Images