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Mercury Program astronauts training
Mercury 7 astronauts wearing flight suits and posing for photographs in front of Convair 106-B aircraft / They are, left to right, M Scott Carpenter, L Gordon Cooper Jr, John Glenn Jr, Virgil Grissom, Walter M Schirra Jr, Alan B Shepard...
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Astronaut John Glenn in Project Mercury capsule
Project Mercury astronaut John Glenn as seen from onboard camera, Mercury Control Center tracking chart and countdown clock. Astronaut John Glenn in Project Mercury capsule on February 20, 1962 in Space (Footage by Getty Images)
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Mercury Program astronauts posing for photographs
Mercury Program astronauts deplaning from American Airlines airplane, wearing suits and posing for photographs on January 01, 1961 (Footage by Getty Images)
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T/L, WS, milky way galaxy, stars and clouds passing over trees / Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia
T/L, WS, milky way galaxy, stars and clouds passing over trees / Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia
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Russians launch first space satellite rocket
/ drawing of a Sputnik space rocket in space / sketch of rocket on landing pad with three men standing at the base / animation of rocket blasting off into space / rocket splits in two / satellite comes off front of rocket / satellite...
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TEMPUR memory foam, animated coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM).
This viscoelastic memory foam, made from polyurethane, was originally developed in the 1970s at NASA Ames Research Center, California, USA, to improve seating comfort and g-force protection in spacecrafts. After it was abandoned by NASA,...
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Astronaut Jake Garn playing with paper airplane in Space Shuttle Discovery
Astronaut Jake Garn playing with paper airplane in Space Shuttle Discovery
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Time lapse of a wind turbine with the Milky Way. Satellites are visible momentarily before they disappear when entering the Earth's shadow located just above the horizon. Jupiter is the brightest star in the field
Time lapse of a wind turbine with the Milky Way. Satellites are visible momentarily before they disappear when entering the Earth's shadow located just above the horizon. Jupiter is the brightest star in the field
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Low Angle static _ A radio telescope rotates on its base / Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Low Angle static _ A radio telescope rotates on its base / Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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Low Angle static _ A radio telescope rotates in circles / Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Low Angle static _ A radio telescope rotates in circles / Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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The Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) mission will provide the first detailed exploration of the Earths unique and elusive noctilucent or night shining clouds that are found literally on the edge of space.
Located near the top of the Earths mesosphere (the region just above the stratosphere), very little is known about how these polar mesospheric clouds form or why they vary
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Time lapse of the crescent moon with its earthshine close to the Pleiades stars cluster
Time lapse of the crescent moon with its earthshine close to the Pleiades stars cluster