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Illustration anticipating Neil Armstrong's Moon landing, 1969
 
The launch of Skylab 2, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA, 1973.Artist: NASA
 
Astronaut David Scott (b1932) on the slope of Hadley Delta during Apollo 15, 1971.Artist: NASA
 
Astronaut James Irwin (1930-1991) gives a salute on the Moon, 1971.Artist: NASA
 
Edwin Buzz Aldrin descends the steps of the Lunar Module ladder to walk on the Moon, 1969.Artist: NASA
 
James Irwin (1930-1991) with the Lunar Roving Vehicle during Apollo 15, 1971.Artist: NASA
 
The Apollo 15 capsule lands safely despite a parachute failure, Mid-Pacific Ocean, 1971.Artist: NASA
 
Inside a futuristic space station, c1970s.Artist: NASA
 
US Astronaut Edward H. White II carrying out external tasks
 
View of Earth from Apollo 10 orbiting the Moon, 1969
 
The Mercury Seven astronauts, 1959
 
A universal message of friendship, 1977
 
Whole Earth from space, viewed from Apollo 17, December 1972
 
Launch of Space Shuttle Columbia from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA, 4 April 1997
 
Davis Scott waiting for James Irwin during extra-vehicular activity on the Apollo 15 mission, 1971
 
Charles Duke collecting samples at the Descartes landing site during the Apollo 16 mission, 1972. Artist: John Watts Young
 
Map showing Tycho Brahe's system of planetary orbits around the Earth, 1660-1661. Artist: Andreas Cellarius
 
Chart describing the movement of the Planets, 1660-1661. Artist: Andreas Cellarius
 
An astronomer, detail from a map of the planets, 1660-1661. Artist: Andreas Cellarius
 
Twenty-eight-inch reflecting telescope, Greenwich Observatory, London, 1926-1927
 
Map of Christian contellations, 1660-1661. Artist: Andreas Cellarius
 
The Astronomer 16th century, (1926)
 
Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer, (c1630). Artist: Joan Blaeu
 
An orrery designed by the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe, c1630. Artist: Joan Blaeu
 
The Astronomer painting by Jan Vermeer, 1668. Artist: Werner Forman
 
Statue of Sir Isaac Newton in the chapel of Trinity College, Cambridge, c1850
 
System of Astronomy, c1790
 
Isaac Newton, English mathematician, astronomer and physicist, (c1900)
 
Greenwich Observatory, London, 1911-1912.Artist: Reinhold Thiele
 
Astronomers waiting for an eclipse, India, 1872
 
Sir John Frederick William Herschel, British astronomer, 1867. Artist: Julia Margaret Cameron
 
Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle contemplating the plurality of worlds, 1791. Artist: Jean Baptiste Morret
 
Guillaume Postel, 16th century French linguist, astronomer and diplomat
 
The Astronomer 1898
 
Ptolemy, Alexandrian Greek astronomer and geographer, 1508
 
William Herschel (1738-1822) German-born English astronomer
 
Copernican (heliocentric/Sun-centred) system of the Universe, 1708
 
Isaac Newton's reflecting telescope, 1668. Artist: Isaac Newton
 
Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and mathematician, c1630s
 
Ptolemy, Alexandrian Greek astronomer and geographer, late 15th century. Artist: Pedro Berruguete
 
Johannes Hevelius, German astronomer, 1647
 
A gilded crescent moon, mid 18th century
 
Mechanical orrery, 18th century