Space Pictures

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The Space Shuttle, Earth from orbit, etc.



Delta II lift off - a Delta II rocket climbing up in the clear blue sky, lifting a satellite to orbit. Picture by Heather R. Shaw, USAF
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Half moon - the moon, seen from the unmanned spacecraft Galileo as it flew by it. Picture by NASA
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Shuttle landing - the space shuttle Atlantis touches down on the runway at Kennedy Space Center, seen from right. Picture by NASA
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Spacewalk - an astronaut floats freely in space, high above the cloud covered ocean below. Picture by NASA
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Earth's horizon - the wonderful blue color of Earth's sun lit horizon and ocean as seen from the International Space Station, with the space shuttle Endeavour docked to it. Picture by NASA
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International Space Station - the International Space Station orbiting over Earth as seen from a nearby space shuttle. Picture by NASA
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Shuttle in space - close up of the sun lit nose and cockpit of the space shuttle Endeavour in space orbit high above the big blue ocean. Picture by NASA
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Endeavour lift-off - the space shuttle Endeavour lifts off from the launchpad at Kennedy Space Center. Picture by NASA
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Iceland from space - iceland, in the north Atlantic, as seen from space. In this mid winter picture, most of the island is covered with bright sun lit snow, yet there's a dust storm off the southern coast, a rare combination typical only to Iceland. Picture by NASA
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Alaska from space - south-central Alaska as seen from space, including the Gulf of Alaska, the snow covered mountain ranges and Kodiak Island. Picture by NASA
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Land of Fire - tierra del Fuego, the 'Land of Fire' at the southernmost tip of South America, as seen from space, almost entirely covered with bright sun lit snow. Picture by NASA
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Shuttle over 747 - the space shuttle Endeavour atop a modified Boeing 747 which flies it back to Kennedy Space Center, Florida for its next space flight. Picture by D. Keith Simmons, USN
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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
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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
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Spacewalk - an astronaut floating free in space, high above the blue Earth below. Picture by NASA
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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
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Lunar landscape - astronaut Harrison Schmitt of Apollo 17 and his lunar vehicle over a typical lunar landscape. Picture by NASA
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Mars landscape 1 - the martian surface as seen from the Viking 2 spacecraft in 1976. Picture by NASA
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Skylab - the 1970s Skylab spacecraft in orbit around Earth, high above the big blue ocean and clouds below. Picture by NASA
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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
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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
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Discovery takeoff - with the Atlantic Ocean in the background, space shuttle Discovery takes off on pillars of fire from its three rockets
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Discovery takeoff 2 - space shuttle Discovery takes off, seen from right
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Space walk - With the ocean far below, astronaut Ed White makes the first spacewalk by an American astronaut
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Galaxy - a telescope image of a very far away galaxy, that looks much like our own Milky Way Galaxy
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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
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Endeavour 2 - the space shuttle Endeavour lands in California, with a big red parachute brake behind its tail. USAF picture by Jim Ross
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The Moon - a magnified picture of the full moon
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Endeavour Landing - space shuttle Endeavour just before landing as is returned from space mission STS-100
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Half moon - The moon, half dark, as seen by a telescope at night
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