Going to Work in Space

Apollo 15 splashdown, 07/07/1971 S71-43542 — NASA

Aurora Australis or “southern lights” recorded by a crewmember aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery during the STS-114 mission, 06/08/05 STS114-332-031 — NASA

A wide-angle view of the activity in the Mission Operations Control Room during the landing of the Apollo 15 Lunar Module on the moon. S71-41424 — NASA

Astronaut Dale A. Gardner holds up a “For Sale” sign refering to the two satellites, Palapa B-2 and Westar 6 that were retrieved from orbit after their Payload Assist Modules failed to fire, 14/11/1984 GPN-2000-001036 — NASA

1960s Man In Silver Astronaut Space Suit And Helmet © H. Armstrong Roberts/ClassicStock/Corbis

Astronaut Anna Fisher John Bryson, Time & Life Pictures, published Life Magazine, May 1985

Air to air tracking views of the Challenger during launch of STS-7 mission, 18/06/1983 S83-35620 — NASA

“The Eagle Flies High”, “2 up, 2 down, the Ace Repo Co.”, “The Ace Repo Co., The Sky’s no limit”. Crew portrait during 51-A mission, 12/11/1984 STS51A-13-028 — NASA

NASA End-of-Shuttle Patch Entry Aaron Draplin

American Project Mercury astronaut Virgil Ivan Grissom (1926–1967) (known as Gus Grissom) trains at the Multiple Axis Space Test Inertia Facility (MASTIF), Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia, 1959. To The Moon – Ralph Morse/Time & Life Pictures

Avro Vulcan B Mk 1 RAF

Apollo 16 Command and Service Module Over the Moon, 24/04/1972 GPN-2002-000069 – NASA

Cosmonaut Andrew G Hobbs

Astronaut Slayton and Cosmonaut Leonov together in Soyuz Orbital Module, 17/07/1975 AST-5-298 – NASA/JSC

The Apollo Lunar Module descends towards the Moon.

The worldwide satellite triangulation camera station network. geod0003 – NOAA’s Geodesy Collection

Landsat image of New York City and New Jersey.