PIX4604277: Fusee Ariane 5 ECA - 04/2008 - The Ariane 5 ECA rocket - 04/2008 - Fusee Ariane 5 ECA on its launch pad at the Guyanese Space Center in Kourou. On board, two communications satellites, the Star One C2 satellite and the Vinasat-1 satellite. Flight V182 was launched on April 18, 2008. The Ariane 5 ECA launcher, on its mobile launch table, after its transfer from the Final Assembly Building at the Launch Zone (ZL - 3) of Ariane Launch Complex no.3 (ELA - 3) at the Guiana Space Centre, Europe's Spaceport. The launcher is carrying Star One C2 - a telecommunications, multimedia and Internet satellite that will serve South America - and Vinasat - 1 - Vietnam's first telecommunications satellite. V182 lauch took place on April 18, 2008 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4604727: Soyuz FG - Fregat - 04 - 2005 - View of the Soyuz FG - Fregat rocket during its transfer from the integration building to the Baikonour fire pitch, Kazakhstan, April 13, 2005. This rocket decolished on 15 April 2005, taking a crew of three men aboard the Soyuz TMA capsule to reach the international space station two days later. The Soyuz FG launcher carrying the Soyuz TMA - 6 spacecraft is transferred to launch pad 1/5 at the Baikonour Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, early in the morning of April 13, 2005, two days before its lift - off for the Eneide mission to the International Space Station (ISS) with ESA astronaut Roberto Vittori, from Italy. The Soyuz spacecraft is enclosed in the white protective fairing / Bridgeman Images
TEC4604906: Pont Neuf, Paris. The oldest bridge in Paris. Henry III laid the first stone in 1578. Interrupted between 1588 and 1599 by civil wars, it was not inaugurated until 1607 by Henri IV. (Architect Jacques Androuet du Cerceau, realisation 1578-1604). In 1854 candelabres were installed by Victor Balard. / Bridgeman Images
PIX4604385: Ariane 5 ECA - 11/2010 - Ariane 5 ECA liftoff - 11/2010 - Decolving the Ariane 5 ECA rocket with the Hylas-1 and Intelsat 17 telecommunications satellites on board. Flight V198 was launched on November 26, 2010. On 26 November 2010, an Ariane 5 launcher lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in English Guiana on its mission to place two telecommunications satellites, Hylas-1 and Intelsat 17, into their planned transfer orbits. Liftoff of V198, the 54th Ariane 5 flight, came at 19:39 CET (18:39 GMT; 15:39 English Guiana) / Bridgeman Images
PIX4604515: Fusees Ariane 5 ES ATV and ECA - Illustration - The Ariane 5 ES ATV and ECA rockets - Illustration - Artist view of the Ariane 5 ES ATV rocket, on the left, compare to the Ariane 5 ECA rocket, on the right. Artist's impression of the Ariane 5 ES ATV (left) with the Ariane 5 ECA (right) / Bridgeman Images
PIX4604900: Launch of the Dnepr - Dnepr rocket launch - Launch of the Cryosat - 2 satellite on board a Dnepr rocket, 8 April 2010. Successful launch for ESA's CryoSat - 2 ice satellite Europe's first mission dedicated to studying the Earth's ice was launched on April 8 2010 from Kazakhstan. From its polar orbit, CryoSat - 2 will send back data leading to new insights into how ice is responding to climate change and the role it plays in our 'Earth system'. The CryoSat - 2 satellite was launched at 15:57 CEST (13:57 UTC) on a Dnepr rocket provided by the International Space Company Kosmotras from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The signal confirming that it had separated from the launcher came 17 minutes later from the Malindi ground station in Kenya / Bridgeman Images
PIX4604931: Launch of Explorer 1 - First American satellite - Launch of Explorer 1 satellite, place on Juno 1 launcher (Jupiter rocket - C modified), February 1, 1958. This satellite was the first artificial satellite launched by Americans. He confirmed the presence of a radiation belt around the Earth, the belt of Van Allen / Bridgeman Images
PIX4594538: Constellation of the Ship Argo - Constellation of Argo Navis - Constellation of the Ship Argo from the Uranographia of Hevelius. Recolorized image. Vessel Argo is a missing constellation; the astronomer Nicolas - Louis de Lacaille divided it in the 1750s into three smaller constellations: the Carene, the Poupe and the Voiles. Map showing the constellation of Argo Navis with its mythological form from “” Uranographia”” star atlas by Hevelius (1690). Recolored image. Argo Navis (or simply Argo) was a large constellation in the southern sky that has since been divided into three constellations (Carina, Puppis and Vela) / Bridgeman Images
PIX4594646: Boreales Constellations - Boreal constellations - A map of the sky representing the constellations of the northern hemisphere around the Earth. Engraving from “Harmonia Macrocosmica” by Andreas Cellarius, 1708. Northern hemisphere constellations around the Earth. Plate of the Harmonia Macrocosmica of Andreas Cellarius, 1708 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4594700: Christian constellations - Christian constellations - Map of the sky with the classical Christian constellations. Engraving from “Harmonia Macrocosmica” by Andreas Cellarius, 1660 - 1661. First hemisphere with the christianized constellations. Plate of the Harmonia Macrocosmica of Andreas Cellarius, 1660 - 1661 / Bridgeman Images
TEC4604921: Pont Neuf, Paris. The oldest bridge in Paris. Henry III laid the first stone in 1578. Interrupted between 1588 and 1599 by civil wars, it was not inaugurated until 1607 by Henri IV. (Architect Jacques Androuet du Cerceau, realisation 1578-1604). In 1854 candelabres were installed by Victor Balard. / Bridgeman Images
PIX4605174: SLS rocket decollage - Artist concept of SLS launching - Artist view of SLS rocket (Space Launch System), Nasa launcher project to take astronauts into space. September 2011. The Space Launch System, or SLS, will be designed to carry the Orion Multi - Purpose Crew Vehicle, as well as important cargo, equipment and science experiments to Earth's orbit and destinations beyond. In addition, the SLS will serve as a back up for commercial and international partner transportation services to the International Space Station / Bridgeman Images
PIX4605265: Astronaut training in parabolic flight - Astronaut training in zero - G - Astronaut Andre Kuipers is training in weightlessness aboard a Russian plane in the Star City, in preparation for his stay aboard the International Space Station (ISS) in April 2004. ESA astronaut Andre Kuipers, from The Netherlands, enjoys weightlessness inside a Russian aircraft performing a parabolic flight at the Gagarin Training Center, also known as Zviezdny Gorodok (“Star City”), near Moscow, as part of his preparation for the DELTA mission to the International Space Station (ISS) in April 2004. Andre Kuipers was launched into space onboard Soyuz TMA - 4 on April 19 with Russian mission commander Gennady Padalka and NASA astronaut Michael Fincke. The spacecraft successfully docked with the ISS two days later. Andre Kuipers then spent eight and a half days onboard the orbital outpost and carried out an extensive experiment programme in the fields of life sciences including physiology, biology and microbiology. His programme also included some physical science, Earth observation and technology experiments as well as education activities. He returned to Earth on April 30 onboard Soyuz TMA - 3 with the former ISS permanent crew, Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Kaleri and British - born NASA astronaut Michael Foale, who were replaced by Padalka and Fincke / Bridgeman Images
PIX4605600: The Pioneer 10 probe in space - Artist's view - Pioneer 10 was launched on March 3, 1972 with as its first destination, the planet Jupiter, which it flew over on December 3, 1973; it was the first space probe to approach this planet; it was also the first space probe to leave the solar system. The Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 probes have embarked on a plate, called the Pioneer plate, containing a message intended for potential aliens. / Bridgeman Images