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This page is dedicated to the astronauts who did not return.
- Lunar Earthrise - our blue planet Earth rising like a big blue moon in the distance over the moon, seen from the Apollo 8 spacecraft at it circled the moon in 1968. Picture by NASA, 1024x768
- Ready for 1st flight - space shuttle Columbia on the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center at the night before the 1st space shuttle flight in 1981. Picture by NASA, 1024x768
- Spacewalk - an astronaut floating free in space, high above the blue Earth below. Picture by NASA, 1024x768
- Deep space eye 1 - this beautiful eye-shaped red blue and orange form is a Helix Nebula far away, hundreds of light years from Earth. Picture by NASA, 1024x768
- Lunar landscape - astronaut Harrison Schmitt of Apollo 17 and his lunar vehicle over a typical lunar landscape. Picture by NASA, 1024x768
- Mars landscape 1 - the martian surface as seen from the Viking 2 spacecraft in 1976. Picture by NASA, 1024x768
- Skylab - the 1970s Skylab spacecraft in orbit around Earth, high above the big blue ocean and clouds below. Picture by NASA, 1024x768
- Rendezvous in orbit - just meters away, a Russian Soyuz spacecraft approaches the docking point of the International Space Station. Over 200 miles below, two lakes are reflecting the sun's light. Picture by NASA, 1024x768
- Rendezvous 2 - a Progress supply spacecraft approaches the International Space Station as the two pass over 200 miles above cloud-covered central Asia. Picture by NASA, 1024x768
- Discovery takeoff - with the Atlantic Ocean in the background, space shuttle Discovery takes off on pillars of fire from its three rockets, 1024x768
- Discovery takeoff 2 - space shuttle Discovery takes off, seen from right, 1024x777
- Space walk - With the ocean far below, astronaut Ed White makes the first spacewalk by an American astronaut, 1024x768
- Galaxy - a telescope image of a very far away galaxy, that looks much like our own Milky Way Galaxy, 1024x768
- Moon lander - The moon lander spacecraft, seen from above while maneuvering in space, high above the ocean, during the test flights before the 1969 journey to the Moon, 1024x768
- Endeavour 2 - the space shuttle Endeavour lands in California, with a big red parachute brake behind its tail. USAF picture by Jim Ross, 1024x768
- The Moon - a magnified picture of the full moon, 1024x768
- Endeavour Landing - space shuttle Endeavour just before landing as is returned from space mission STS-100, 1024x768
- Space Station - full view of the International Space Station in orbit around Earth, with space and Earth in the background, as seen from a Space Shuttle, 800x600
- Earth - seen from space, half lit half dark. The lit part shows the Pacific and North and South America, 800x600
- Columbia - space shuttle Columbia at takeoff, 400x320
- Half moon - The moon, half dark, as seen by a telescope at night, 1024x768
- Mars Pole - the North Pole of Mars, an artist impression, 601x361
- Moon 11 - the moon, half dark, 640x480
- Planet - an artist impression of moon-like Saturn seen from one of its outer satellites, 500x335
- Shepard - Alan Shepard on the moon, holding the flag, as commander of the Apollo 14 lunar mission, 640x480
- Shuttle - this is what commercial sponsored space flight would look like, the space shuttle on the launch pad, full of sponsors' stickers like a Formula 1 race car, including an 'Intel inside' logo, 360x600
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