Space Travel Collection (page 2)

The Rover is dwarfed by a giant rock on the lunar surface, Apollo 17 mission, December 1972. US astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt collected samples and drove the Lunar Roving Vehicle

Astronaut with Lunar Roving Vehicle on the Moon, 1970s. Creator: NASA
Astronaut with Lunar Roving Vehicle on the Moon, 1970s. The LRV or Moon Buggy was a battery-powered four-wheeled rover used on the Moon in the last three missions of the American Apollo programme in

Harrison Schmitt collects lunar rake samples, Apollo 17 mission, December 1972. Creator: NASA
Harrison Schmitt collects lunar rake samples, Apollo 17 mission, December 1972. US astronaut Harrison Schmitt (born 1935), the 12th man to walk on the Moon

Simulation showing the separation of the component parts of the Apollo 11 spacecraft, 1969. Illustration of the removal of the Command Module

Command and supply capsule, Apollo 17 mission, December 1972. Creator: NASA
Command and supply capsule, Apollo 17 mission, December 1972. Apollo 17 was the last Apollo Moon landing mission

Crawler moving Space Shuttle to launch complex 39, Kennedy Space Center, USA, 1980s
Crawler moving Space Shuttle to launch complex 39, Kennedy Space Center, Merritt Island, Florida, USA, 1980s. Crawler-transporters, formally known as the Missile Crawler Transporter Facilities

Space Shuttle Enterprise landing at Stansted, Essex, United Kingdom, 5 June 1983. The US space shuttle Enterprise and its carrier aircraft, a Boeing 747

Artists concept of Command Module re-entry in 5000°heat. Creator: NASA
Artists concept of Command Module re-entry in 5000° heat. The Apollo Command/Service Module was used for the Apollo program which landed astronauts on the Moon between 1969 and 1972

Space Shuttle - spacewalk, 1980s. Creator: NASA
Space Shuttle - spacewalk, 1980s. EVA - Extra Vehicular Activity - from the Orbiter space shuttle. The Space Shuttle program, (official name, Space Transportation System or STS)

The Moon, Apollo II mission, July 1969. Creator: NASA
The Moon, Apollo II mission, July 1969. The Full Moon seen from the Apollo 11 spacecraft. Visible features include the Mare Crisium, and the Mare Tranquilitatis (Sea of Tranquillity)

Dione, one of Saturns moons. Creator: NASA
Dione, one of Saturns moons. View of Dione, showing impact craters

Close-up view of a crater on the surface of the Moon. Creator: NASA
Close-up view of a crater on the surface of the Moon

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Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, 1961 (litho)
813841 Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, 1961 (litho) by Russian School (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, 1961.); Look and Learn / Elgar Collection

U.S. Air Force space missile launch
3568546 U.S. Air Force space missile launch by Unknown photographer, (20th century); (add.info.: United States 1960 ca. Photographer: Unidentified Author); Alinari Archives, Florence

Training procedures at the space base at Cape Canaveral in Florida. On the right the U.S. astronaut Jhon Herschel Glenn is portrayed, inside the space capsule Mercury

Training test at the Aircraft Company space base of St. Luis in Missouri. The U.S. Astronaut L. Cooper is collocated inside the model of the space capsule Mercury. United States Aircraft Company, St

The U.S. astronaut John Herschel Glenn is portrayed lying down inside the Mercury spacecraft model, during the tests of pressurization, before the launch. United States Cape Canaveral, Florida

Launch of a U.S. space missile of the Air Force. United States. Date of Photograph:13/04/1960

Launch of a U.S. Air Force space missile. United States. Date of Photograph:26/02/1960

U.S. Air Force space missile, in launching United States. Date of Photograph:26/02/1960

U.S. Air Force missile launch from the space base of Cape Canaveral in Florida. United States Cape Canaveral, Florida. Date of Photograph:01/02/1960

U.S. Air Force space missile launch United States. Date of Photograph:1960 ca

The U.S. astronaut Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. portrayed during the final stage of the medical examination, before the launch, occurred on 5 May 1961, aboard of the capsule Mercury 3/I Freedom 7

U.S. Air Force space missile launch from the space base of Cape Canaveral in Florida. United States Cape Canaveral, Florida. Date of Photograph:20/10/1960

The first man on the Moon, Neil Armstrong, 21 July 1969. Date of Photograph:21/07/1969

Walt Disney and Dr. Wernher von Braun, USA, 1954. Creator: NASA
Walt Disney and Dr. Wernher von Braun, USA, 1954. Dr. Werhner von Braun, then Chief, Guided Missile Development Operation Division at Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA) in Redstone Arsenal

Earth Path Indicator, Mercury 4, 1961. Creator: Honeywell
The Mercury space capsule carried this device, designed by the Honeywell Corporation, which allowed the astronaut to see his orbital track and heading

NASA Space Flight Medal awarded to Sally Ride, 1983. Creator: Unknown
NASA Space Flight Medal awarded to Sally Ride, 1983. This set of items constitute the NASA Space Flight Medal awarded to Dr. Sally K. Ride after her first space flight aboard STS-7 in 1983

Rocket Blastoff

Buzz Aldrin deploys solar wind collector on the surface of the Moon, Apollo 11 mission, July 1969. The Apollo 11 Lunar Module, code named Eagle

Buzz Aldrin stands next to the American flag on the surface of the Moon, July 1969
Buzz Aldrin stands next to the American flag on the surface of the Moon, Apollo 11 mission, July 1969. US astronaut Edwin E " Buzz" Aldrin, Jr

Buzz Aldrin near the leg of the Lunar Module on the Moon, Apollo 11 mission, July 1969. The Apollo 11 Lunar Module, code named Eagle, with US astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on board

Lunar Module Antares on the Moon, Apollo 14 mission, February 1971
Lunar Module Antares at the Fra Mauro crater landing site on the Moon, Apollo 14 mission, February 1971. Apollo 14 was the third manned mission in NASAs Apollo programme to land on the Moon

Colour composite of Jupiter and four moons. Creator: NASA
Colour composite of Jupiter and four moons. There are 79 known moons of the Planet Jupiter

Jupiter mission: Ganymede from 1. 2 million kilometres. Creator: NASA
Jupiter mission: Ganymede from 1.2 million kilometres. Ganymede, (Jupiter III), is one of the moons of the planet Jupiter. It is the largest and most massive moon of Jupiter, and in the Solar System

Space Shuttle Orbiter Columbia on Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier, 1980s. Creator: NASA
Space Shuttle Orbiter Columbia on Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier, 1980s. The Columbia Orbiter operated between 1981 and 2003

Lunar Module approaching landing site on the Moon, Apollo II mission, July 1969. Creator: NASA
Lunar Module approaching landing site on the Moon, Apollo II mission, July 1969. The Apollo 11 Lunar Module, code named Eagle, with US astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin on board

Lunar Module from above, c1970. Creator: NASA
Lunar Module from above, c1970. The Lunar Module was the lander portion of the Apollo spacecraft, used for landing on the Moon. The first launch was in 1968, and the last in 1972

The Taurus-Littrow landing site, Apollo 17 mission, December 1972. Creator: NASA
The Taurus-Littrow landing site, Apollo 17 mission, December 1972. US astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt collected samples and drove the Lunar Roving Vehicle on the Moon

Two-image mosaic of Saturns Rings, seen from Voyager 1 spacecraft, 1980. Creator: NASA
Two-image mosaic of Saturns Rings, seen from Voyager 1 spacecraft, 1980. Computer-assembled two-image mosaic of Saturns rings

Space Shuttle Orbiter in flight, 1980s. Creator: NASA
Space Shuttle Orbiter in flight, 1980s. The Space Shuttle program, (official name, Space Transportation System or STS), was the fourth human spaceflight program carried out by the National

Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin, crew of Apollo 11, 1969. Creator: NASA
Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin, crew of Apollo 11, 1969. Portrait of American astronauts Neil A Armstrong, commander; Michael Collins, command module pilot; and Edwin E Aldrin Jr

Space Shuttle on launch pad, Kennedy Space Center, Merritt Island, Florida, USA, 1980s. The Space Shuttle program, (official name, Space Transportation System or STS)

Saturnian System from Voyager 1, c1980s. Creator: NASA
Saturnian System from Voyager 1, c1980s. The Voyager 1 space probe was launched by NASA on 5 September 1977, 16 days after its twin, Voyager 2

Space Shuttle Columbia on launch pad, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA, March 1982
Space Shuttle Columbia on launch pad, Kennedy Space Center, Merritt Island, Florida, USA, March 1982. STS-3 Launch Vehicle loading tests for crygenic liquid oxygen and propellants etc

Lunar landing site, Apollo 17 mission, December 1972. Creator: NASA
Lunar landing site, Apollo 17 mission, December 1972. US astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt collected samples and drove the Lunar Roving Vehicle at the Taurus-Littrow Landing Site

Earth rising above the Moon, seen from Apollo 15, July-August 1971. Creator: NASA
Earth rising above the Moon, seen from Apollo 15, July-August 1971. The crescent Earth rises above the lunar horizon, taken from the Apollo 17 spacecraft in lunar orbit during the final lunar landing

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"Exploring the Final Frontier: A Journey Through Space Travel" Skylab in orbit above Earth at the end of its mission, 1974. Creator: NASA Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn and its moon Titan. The Gemini 7 spacecraft gracefully glides through Earth's orbit. U-2 spy plane with fictitious NASA markings, USA, 1960. Creator: NASA Witnessing Earthrise - Apollo 8, December 24, 1968. Creator: William A Anders Space shuttle Discovery lifts off from Launch Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The meticulous installation of Vostok spacecraft paves the way for historic missions. Reliving the awe-inspiring launch of Vostok 1 spacecraft in 1961. Unveiling the remarkable Vostok 1 Soviet spacecraft that propelled humanity into space. Yuri Gagarin, Soviet cosmonaut who fearlessly ventured beyond our planet's boundaries. Space shuttle Atlantis twin solid rocket boosters ignite to propel the spacecraft towards new horizons. Travel back to Frau im Mond advert from1929 – a glimpse into early dreams of space exploration. Embarking on an extraordinary odyssey through time and space, these captivating images capture mankind's relentless pursuit to unravel the mysteries beyond our blue planet’s atmosphere. From Skylab serenely floating above Earth during its final mission to Cassini meticulously navigating Saturn's rings alongside its enigmatic moon Titan; each photograph tells a tale of human ingenuity and courage reaching unprecedented heights. The Gemini VII effortlessly dances among stars as it orbits our precious home while disguised U-2 spy planes don fictional NASA markings blurring lines between secrecy and exploration in a bygone era.