1990s Gallery

LFCDA-LFB Leyton fire station

The fire station at Leyton, located at 90b Church Road, London E10

© London Fire Brigade / Mary Evans Picture Library

1990s, 1991, 90s, Appliance, Brigade, Church, Dennis, E10, East, Engine, Engines, Fire, Firefighting, Leyton, Lfb, Lfcda, London, Nineties, Red, Road, Service, Shed, Sheds, Station, Stations, Vehicle, Vehicles

Spacecraft on the Moon, lunar map

Spacecraft on the Moon. Map showing coloured markers for 34 spacecraft that impacted or landed on the Moon from the 1960s onwards. The spacecraft are: Ranger 7-9 (1964 to 1965, NASA, white), Luna 5, 7-9, 13, 15-18, 20-21, 23-24 (1965 to 1976, Soviet Union, red), Surveyor 1-7 (1966 to 1968, NASA, green), Lunar Orbiter 1-3 (1966 to 1967, NASA, black), Apollo 11-12, 14-17 (1969 to 1972, NASA, blue), Lunar Prospector (1999, NASA, pink) and SMART-1 (2006, ESA, white). All except the Apollo landers were unmanned probes. Luna 2 (1959) was the first man-made object to reach the surface of the Moon

© Detlev van Ravenswaay

Tsar Bomba nuclear weapon display

Tsar Bomba nuclear weapon display. Museum display of an example of the casing of the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated. The Tsar Bomba (AN602) was a Soviet hydrogen bomb with a yield equivalent to 50 megatons of TNT explosives. It was detonated on 30 October 1961, in the Novaya Zemlya archipelago in the Russian Arctic. The resulting mushroom cloud reached a height of over 60 kilometres, and the effects were felt hundreds of kilometres away. Photographed in 1993, at the museum of nuclear weapons in the Russian Federal Nuclear Centre, in Russia's Nizhny Novgorod region

© DEA Iiainoe