Space Craft Collection (#10)

SpaceShipOne in museum
SpaceShipOne, the winner of the Ansari X-Prize competiion (to fly into space on a suborbital trajectory) on display at the National Air & Space Museum, Washington DC

Corona spy satellite
Corona KH-4B spy satellite on display at the National Air & Space Museum, Washington DC. Americas first photoreconnaissance satellite, also known by the cover name Discoverer

Space capsule structure model at Thales Alenia Space plant in Turin, Italy

Cygnus pressurised cargo module at Thales Alenia Space plant in Turin, Italy

Apollo-Soyuz Test Project display in National Air & Space Museum, Washington DC. The ASTP mission was flown in July 1975. The spacecraft on display are the CSM-105 Apollo command and service module

Flying saucer cloud

Soyuz cable connectors
Cable connection panel on a Soyuz spacecraft (gound-test model) in the National Air & Space Museum, Washington DC. Part of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project display

Vanguard satellite damaged in rocket explosion in December 1957 on display at the National Air & Space Museum, Washington DC

NetLander mission to Mars, artwork

Ariane 1-4 rockets, artwork

Russian rocket engines on display at the 2011 Paris Air Show

Space station equipment racks
Equipment racks in the European Columbus module of the International Space Station (ISS). A full-scale mock-up photographed at the National Space Centre, Leicester, UK

Venus Express in Soyuz rocket, artwork

Space shuttle above Earths atmosphere
Atmosphere before sunrise from 30.000 feet with a rising crescent of the Moon, two days before New Moon. The view of the Moon is disturbed by the atmosphere, star are visible above the blue

Astrolab mission to the ISS, artwork

Venus Express launch, artwork

ISS viewing portal, artwork

ENEIDE mission to the ISS, artwork

Universe time line, artwork
Big Bang and Evolution of Galaxies - The observable Universe is about 84 billion light years across. According to the standard view of cosmolog

IRAS infrared astronomy satellite on display at the National Space Centre, Leicester, UK. Image shows the sunshade surrounding the telescope aperture

Huygens probe landing on Titan, artwork

Ariane 5 rocket launch, artwork

Apollo lunar module cabin mock-up
Mock-up of the Apollo lunar module cabin, showing two triangular windows, a facsimile of the control panel and astronauts hand-controllers, and the exit hatch below

Russian Soyuz spacecraft on display at the National Space Centre, Leicester, UK. A flight model constructed in the 1960s, but never flown

Columbus ISS module delivery, artwork

Time travelling spacecraft, artwork
Time travelling spacecraft, conceptual computer artwork

Energia rocket preparation. Energia rocket being prepared in a workshop at the Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. Energia rockets were built to serve as a heavy-lift expendable launch system

Huygens probe at Titan, artwork

Venus Express mission, artwork

Ariane 5 rockets, artwork

Ariane 5 rocket, artwork

Automated Transfer Vehicle, artwork

Venus, synthetic aperture radar map
This Magellan Radar image of the Venus surafce in January 1991. The large 120 km structure is a socalled corona, the smaller features are called " pancakes" with a diameter of 35

Ariane rocket engine
A development model of the Vinci rocket engine for Europes Ariane launch vehicle. Photographed at the 2011 Paris Air Show

ATV orbital separation, artwork

Ariane 5 rocket with ARD, artwork
Ariane 5 flight 504. Artwork showing a cut-away view of the European Ariane 5 launcher for flight 504, which deployed the XMM-Newton X-ray telescope on 10th December 1999

ATV docked to the ISS, artwork

ATV launch, artwork

International Space Station, artwork

ATV, Apollo and Progress modules

Venus Express departing Earth, artwork

Ariane 4 rocket versions, artwork

Meteosat weather satellite at the National Space Centre, Leicester, UK (MOP-4, flight model spare for Meteosat 7). Intentionally overprocessed image

Antimatter drive spacecraft, artwork

MTFF space station, artwork
MTFF space station in Earth orbit, cutaway artwork. The Man-Tended Free Flyer (MTFF) was a space station that was planned by the European Space Agency (ESA) in the late 1980s

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