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18.03.2008 - This giant tracking antenna, 64 meters (210 feet) in diameter, is located near Madrid Spain. It is part of NASA's Deep Space Network of stations located around the world to maintai...
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16.07.1996 - A model of the Rocky 7 Long Range Science Rover rests in the landscape at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Tuesday, July 16, 1996 in Pasadena, Calif., during a workshop for toy and...
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15.10.1963 - 210 foot diameter radio telescope located at the Goldstone Tracking Station in the Mojave Desert, California. The larglest spacecraft tracking and communications instrument in the...
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05.05.1961 - Alan Shepard, 37-year-old navy commander from East Derry, N. H., leaves NASA van to enter spacecraft, marking America’s first manned flight on May 5, 1961. This was more than a m...
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16.01.2003 - January 16, 2003 - Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA - Through a cloud-washed blue sky above Launch Pad 39A, Space Shuttle Columbia hurtles toward space on mission STS-107. Follow...
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22.06.1973 - June 22, 1973 - Earth Atmosphere - During the Skylab 2 crew's final fly-around inspection on June 22, 1973, they saw this overhead view of the Skylab space station. It has a single...
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09.08.1988 - The space shuttle orbiter Discovery sits on launch pad 39-B, Aug. 9, 1988, in preparation for the second attempt at a Flight Readiness Test Firing which will take place Wednesday m...
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04.07.1995 - The space shuttle Atlantis, below, separates from the docking collar of the Russian space station Mir, top, during undocking procedures Tuesday, July 4, 1995, in this image from N...
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07.12.1972 - Eugene Andrew 'Gene' Cernan (March 14, 1934 - January 16, 2017), was an American Naval aviator, electrical engineer, aeronautical engineer, fighter pilot, and NASA astronaut. He tr...
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04.06.2010 - June 4, 2010 - Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S. - Launch of Falcon 9 Flight 1 from the SpaceX launch pad at Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral, Florida with an official liftoff time of...
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09.05.1969 - May 9, 1969 - Kennedy Space Center, Florida, U.S. - Backup Apollo 11 Commander James A. Lovell reads a newspaper while awaiting to enter the altitude chamber. Apollo 11 was the spa...
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08.08.2006 - August 8, 2006 - Space - Astronaut Jeffrey N. Williams, Expedition 13 NASA space station science officer and flight engineer, is photographed during a productive 5 hour, 54 minute...
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30.04.2002 - April 2015 - File - This month marks the 25th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope, whose data has revolutionized the field of astrophysics, and captivated scientists and the...
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01.02.1974 - February 1, 1974 - Earth Atmopshere - A 35mm camera, operated by astronaut William R. Pogue, Skylab 4 pilot, recorded this wide scene of his Skylab 4 crewmates on the other end of...
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12.12.1972 - December 12, 1972 - U.S. - This image is a photographic replica of the plaque that the Apollo 17 astronauts left on the Moon at the Taurus-Littrow landing site. Apollo 17 was the f...
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14.05.1969 - May 14, 1969 - Florida, U.S. - Buzz Aldrin during the May 14, 1969, preflight press conference at MSC. Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first two people on the Moon. C...
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25.09.1959 - U.S. astronauts laugh while standing around models of the Atlas and nose capsule designed to carry them into space in San Diego, California September 25, 1959. From left are Walter...
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19.01.2003 - January 19, 2003 - Earth Atmosphere - Astronaut Laurel B. Clark, STS-107 mission specialist, takes a brief break from science research on the mid deck of the Space Shuttle Columbia...
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01.01.1962 - January 1, 1962, Houston, Texas, USA: CHRISTOPHER C. KRAFT, JR., created the concept of NASA's Mission Control and developed its organization, operational procedures and culture vi...
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16.07.1969 - July 16, 1969 - Florida, U.S. - The Apollo 11 mission, the first manned lunar mission, launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida via the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) d...
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25.09.2009 - Sep 25, 2009 - Cape Canaveral, Florida, United States - In Orbiter Processing Facility-1 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, space shuttle Atlantis' payload bay doors are be...
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16.07.1969 - July 16, 1969 - Kennedy Space Center, U.S. - Apollo 11 Commander Neil A. Armstrong waves to well-wishers in the hallway of the Manned Spacecraft Operations Building as he and Micha...
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28.08.1962 - View of MA-8 Spacecraft in Hangar ?S? at Cape Canaveral on August 28, 1962 during preflight weight and balance checkout. (AP Photo)
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10.09.2009 - Sep 10, 2009 - Promontory, Utah, USA - NASA and Alliant Techsystems (NYSE: ATK) made history today as they conducted the first test of the Ares I first stage five-segment developme...
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15.10.1963 - 210 foot diameter radio telescope located at the Goldstone Tracking Station in the Mojave Desert, California. The larglest spacecraft tracking and communications instrument in the...
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14.03.1961 - Technicians at NASA test station adjust a four-foot rubberized skirt beneath the mercury capsule to be fired in the next few days a top a Little Joe rocket from a pad in Wallops Is...
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04.04.2011 - National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA engineers display Curiosity, a mega-rover at the Mars Science Laboratory, during a media day at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in...
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04.04.2011 - National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA engineers display Curiosity, a mega-rover at the Mars Science Laboratory, at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.,...
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20.02.1962 - This picture shows the Atlas rocket and the newly-named Mercury spacecraft called Friendship 7 blasting off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, February 20, 1962, carrying Col. John Glen...
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01.03.1961 - The original seven Mercury astronauts are shown during training at NASA Langley Research Center in March 1961 in their flight suits. From left, Lt. M. Scott Carpenter, Capt. Gordon...
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03.05.1962 - Astronaut John Glenn narrates his experience in orbiting the earth as he reports to the International Space Meeting at which Soviet Cosmonaut Gherman Titov also talked, May 3, 1962...
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01.01.1959 - Mercury astronauts, left to right, R. Schirra, Shepherd, Virgil Grissom, Slayton, Glenn, Carpenter and Air Force Capt. Cooper with a mock-up of rocket and Mercury capsule, 1959. (A...
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05.05.2021 - May 5, 2021, Washington, District of Columbia, USA: On May 5, 1961, ALAN SHEPARD, one of NASA's first seven astronauts, became the first American in space. In this image, President...
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31.01.1961 - Ham, a chimpanzee, is inside the rocket shown on deck of ship after being pulled out of water following its space flight on Jan. 31, 1961. The first U.S. suborbital flight, an anim...
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31.01.1961 - Ham, the first higher primate launched into outer space, is comforted by an unidentified man on the deck of a rescue ship after the splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean on January 31,...
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01.02.1961 - ?Ham,? the space chimp, after the 420 mile ride aboard a Redstone rocket in Cape Canaveral on Feb. 1, 1961. The chimpanzee was fired from Cape Canaveral, Florida riding in a Mercur...
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16.12.1965 - December 16, 1965 - U.S. - Astronaut Walter H. Schirra Jr. (on right), Command pilot, climbs from his Gemini VI spacecraft as he and Astronaut Thomas P. Stafford (not in view) arri...
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04.12.1965 - Gemini 7 twin astronauts James Lovell, left, and Frank Borman, all suited up and ready to go, leave van enroute to their spacecraft for blast off at Cape Kennedy, Florida on Dec. 4...
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05.05.1961 - Astronaut Alan Shepard, May 5, 1961. (AP Photo)
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05.05.1961 - Redstone-MR7 is shown during lift-off from the launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Fla., at 9:23 am EST, May 5, 1961. The booster placed astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr., who is inside a Pr...
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03.05.1961 - Technicians at control panels prior to first rocket take-off tests will eventually take a man (Alan Shepard) on first U.S. Sub-Orbit Flight into space on May 3, 1961. (AP Photo)
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29.03.2018 - March 29, 2018 - California, U.S. - Engineer Joel Steinkraus uses sunlight to test the solar arrays on one of the Mars Cube One (MarCO) spacecraft at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laborato...
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24.10.2017 - October 24, 2017 - Space - In this June 1973 photograph, Skylab 2 pilot PAUL J. WEITZ operates the control and display console of the Apollo Telescope Mount solar observatory. Weit...
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22.12.2015 - Dec 21, 2015 - Space - Expedition 46 Flight Engineer TIM KOPRA floats during spacewalk, in which Kopra and Expedition 46 Commander Scott Kelly successfully moved the International...
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19.02.2017 - February 19, 2017 - Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S. - The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully lifts off carrying a Dragon resupply spacecraft to the International Space Station from...
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26.11.2018 - Nov 26, 2018 - In this artist's concept The InSight spacecraft approaches Mars. The InSight lander has landed successfully
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07.01.2016 - January 7, 2016 - USA - MIT graduate students Pronoy Biswas (left) and Mark Chodas prepare the Regolith X-Ray Imaging Spectrometer (REXIS) instrument for flight. REXIS can image X-...
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25.04.2024 - NASA astronaut Suni Williams walks past NASA jets after arriving at the Kennedy Space Center, Thursday, April 25, 2024, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. The crew of two test pilots will lau...
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08.04.2024 - April 8, 2024 - Earth Atmosphere - A total solar eclipse passed over parts of Mexico, the United States, and Canada on April 8, 2024. Millions of people witnessed skies darken as t...
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24.11.2023 - November 24, 2023: FILE: NASA's Psyche spacecraft is shown in a clean room at the Astrotech Space Operations facility near the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Dec. 8, 2...
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04.10.2023 - October 4, 2023 - Earth Atmosphere - NASA astronaut and Expedition 70 Flight Engineer Loral O'Hara is pictured trying on her spacesuit and testing its components aboard the Interna...
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29.09.2023 - September 29, 2023 - Earth Atmosphere - NASA astronaut and Expedition 70 Flight Engineer Loral O'Hara removes space physics research hardware from inside the Destiny laboratory mod...
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13.10.2023 - A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket with the Psyche spacecraft launches from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on October 13, 2023. The spacecraft is bound for Psych...
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01.03.2023 - March 1, 2023 - Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA - A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the company's Dragon spacecraft on top is seen at sunset on the launch pad at Launch Complex 39A as pre...
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15.02.2007 - The space shuttle Atlantis reaches the launch pad, left, at the Kennedy Space Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Thursday, Feb. 15, 2007. Atlantis is scheduled for a March launch to...
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