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Reality observer. Astronomy and sci-fi fan. Amateur historian. My Blogs: https://beyondearthsky.blogspot.com https://thisdayinspace.blogspot.com/

The first picture from the Explorer VI satellite shows a sun-lighted area of the central Pacific Ocean and its cloud cover. The picture was made when the satellite was about 27,000 km above the surface of Earth, crossing Mexico
Carl Gustav Witt
John Russell Hind
The Parker Solar Probe in preflight configuration
Artist's impression of the HEAO 1 satellite
Enterprise separates from the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft on its first solo flight. Credit: NASA
Pavel Popovich during his spaceflight
Erwin Schrödinger in 1933. Credit: Nobel Foundation
Asaph Hall in 1899. Credit: USNO
A monochrome photograph capturing a total solar eclipse hanging above a dense, vast sea of clouds, viewed from an elevated vantage point with dark tree silhouettes lining the bottom foreground.
Andriyan Nikolaev during his flight
Recovery of Discoverer 13 reentry capsule from the Pacific Ocean
Luna 25 during prelaunch preparations
Artist's depiction of Magellan in orbit around Venus
Comet West as seen on March 9, 1976
The video of the Great Daylight Fireball from Jackson Lake, Wyoming. Credit: Linda Baker
Lunar Orbiter I launch on Atlas-Agena rocket on August 10, 1966
Artist's depiction of the Luna 24 ascent stage launch from the Moon
Hipparcos satellite during testing in ESA's ESTEC centre, February 1988
Charlie Hall, Project Manager, inspects the Pioneer Venus multiprobe at Hughes Aircraft Co. in December 1976
Paul Dirac in 1933
Comet McNaught on January 20, 2007. Credit: R. H. McNaught, Siding Spring Observatory
Model of the Viking spacecraft. The orbiter is on the bottom, and the lander is on top inside its bioshield.
The capsule of Apollo 15 descends under only two good parachutes
Earth over the lunar horizon photographed by Zond 7
Selfie image of the Rosetta spacecraft at 16 kilometers distance from the comet
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured this image of Curiosity rover and its parachute as Curiosity descended to the Surface of Mars
German Titov before his flight
Preflight preparations of the Juno spacecraft
An artist's concept of the Apollo 15 Command and Service Modules (CSM), showing two crewmembers performing a new-to-Apollo extravehicular activity (EVA). The figure at left represents astronaut Alfred M. Worden, command module pilot, connected by an umbilical tether to the CM, at right, where a figure representing astronaut James B. Irwin, lunar module pilot, stands at the open CM hatch. Worden is working with the panoramic camera in the Scientific Instrument Module (SIM). Behind Irwin is the 16mm data acquisition camera. Image credit: NASA / North American Rockwell / Wikimedia Commons
Official photo of Neil Armstrong before the Apollo 11 mission
Artist's impression of the Danuri lunar orbiter
Artist's impression of Phoenix landing on Mars
Lift-off of the Delta 7925H launch vehicle with the MESSENGER spacecraft
A stylized digital painting framing a view through a large, dark circular porthole. In the foreground interior, a steaming dark mug rests on a folded blanket. Through the window, an astronaut in a full red suit stands on a rocky ledge, facing away toward a dramatic alien vista. Below the ledge is a wide valley shaded in dark purples and reds, leading toward a distant, bright orange canyon with jagged mountain walls under a glowing, amber sky. Small, faint lights suggest a distant settlement nestled deep within the canyon floor.
Lunar Orbiter Engineering Mock-up
Artist's impression of the Lunar Prospector
Mariner VI far encounter image of Mars
Mars 2020 mission launching from Cape Canaveral Space force Station on July 30, 2020
This near-infrared, color mosaic from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the sun glinting off of Titan's north polar seas. The view was acquired during Cassini's August 21, 2014, flyby of Titan.
Carme photographed from the Observatoire de Haute-Provence on December 16, 1998. Jupiter's glare comes from the lower right. Credit: Observatoire de Haute-Provence/CNRS/IMCCE
Artist's rendering of the Deep Space 1 spacecraft. Credit: NASA/JPL
President Dwight D. Eisenhower (center) presents commissions to Dr. T. Keith Glennan (right) as the first Administrator of NASA and Dr. Hugh L. Dryden (left) as Deputy Administrator, swearing them in on August 19, 1958. Credit: NASA
Skylab 3 crew: left to right, science pilot Owen K. Garriott, pilot Jack R. Lousma, and commander Alan L. Bean
The first successful photograph of the corona of the Sun during the solar eclipse on July 28, 1851. Credit: Johann Julius Friedrich Berkowski.
Ranger VII spacecraft during pre-launch preparations
Yuri Gagarin and Valentina Tereshkova, 1963.
The crew of Apollo 15 mission. From left: David R. Scott, Alfred M. Worden and James B. Irwin
Svetlana Savitskaya
Louis Blériot
The three Apollo 11 crew men await pickup by a helicopter from the USS Hornet, prime recovery ship for the historic Apollo 11 lunar landing mission. The fourth man in the life raft is a United States Navy underwater demolition team swimmer. All four men are wearing biological isolation garments.
Bumper 8 supported by a gantry at Launch Complex 3, Cape Canaveral, Florida. Credit: U.S. Army
China's Tianwen-1 Mars probe is seen by a tiny camera ejected from the spacecraft in a photo captured 15 million miles from Earth. Image credit: CNSA
Artist's impression of the Chandra X-Ray Observatory
Comet Hale-Bopp. Credit: ESO/Eckhard Slawik
Chandrayaan-2 with Vikram lander mounted on top of orbiter