1997 Gallery

Soccer - Littlewoods FA Cup - Final - Chelsea v Middlesbrough

Chelsea celebrate winning the FA Cup

© EMPICS Sport

Laika the space dog

First animal in space. Laika, the bitch who became the first animal in space, inside a mock-up of the cabin of the Soviet Sputnik 2 spacecraft. Sputnik 2 was launched on 3 November 1957. Laika (meaning "Barker" or "Husky") was contained within a sealed cabin with a food store and an air conditioner. Soviet propaganda at the time maintained that she survived for around a week, but in fact she died after just a few hours due to overheating and panic. The spacecraft was not designed to be recovered and it burnt up as it re- entered the atmosphere on 14 April 1958, 162 days after its launch. Still image from the documentary film First Soviet Satellites of the Earth

© RIA NOVOSTI/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY

Symbol @ & binary code to represent E-mail

E-mail symbol. Computer artwork representing electronic mail (e-mail), showing the symbol "@" (meaning "at") with streams of zeroes and ones (binary digits). The symbol "@" is used in the address of the users of e-mail, a method whereby computer users can send and receive text and images over the internet. The internet is an international network of computers which includes the World Wide Web. The binary system represents numbers and computer commands with a series of "0"s and "1"s. Computers use it to communicate with each other because an electric pulse can be used to represent a "1", whilst the absence of a pulse registers a "0"

© LAGUNA DESIGN/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY