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RMPTTKKF–Expedition 57 prime and backup crew pose in front of the cottage where the Russian space icon and Sergei Korolev slept on the night before Yuri Gagarin launched becoming the first human in space at the Baikonur Cosmodrome October 6, 2018 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. From left to right are backup crew David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency and Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos, and prime crew Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos and Nick Hague of NASA.
RMKRJDDK–At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 27 Flight Engineer Ron Garan of NASA (left), Soyuz Commander Alexander Samokutyaev (center) and Flight Engineer Andrey Borisenko pose for pictures outside their Soyuz TMA-21 spacecraft during a check of its systems March 22, 2011. The Soyuz, which has been dubbed “Gagarin” and which bears the likeness of cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space, is scheduled for launch on April 5 (April 4, U.S. time), just one week shy of the 50th anniversary of Gagarin’s historic journey into space from the same launch pad that the Expedition 27 cre
RMB64XPN–Statue of the world's first human in space cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin at the main square in Gagarin (formerly Klushino), Russia
RM2DE3A3C–An old Russian postcard image showing Yuri Gagarin 'first man in space' & President Castro of Cuba embracing. -- Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin ( 1934 – 1968) was a Soviet Air Force pilot and cosmonaut ( a former steel foundry worker) who was allegedly the first human to journey into outer space in Vostok I on the 12th April 1961 (others claim Vladimir Ilyushin or even U.S. test pilot Joe Kittinger. Gagarin visited Casro in Cuba during his world tour only months after his flight.
RM2K0395B–Vostok 1 was the first spaceflight of the Vostok programme and the first human spaceflight in history. Launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome on April 12, 1961, with Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin aboard, making him the first human to cross into outer space.
RM2NFEH53–Soviet Space Poster - 'The Dreams Came True of 12 April - 1st Manned Space Flight. Yuri Gagarin cosmonaut the first human to journey in to space 1961
RM2CK972P–Retired NASA Langley “Human Computer” research mathematician Katherine G. Johnson is being recognized for her contributions in America’s first space flight mission at Carousel Park in downtown Hampton August 26, 2016. During the ceremony guests wished her a Happy 98th birthday during the unveiling of a historical park bench dedicated in her honor. (USA)
![Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr., pilot of the Mercury-Redstone 3 (MR-3) suborbital spaceflight, is retrieved by a helicopter from the USS Lake Champlain during recovery operations in the western Atlantic Ocean. Shepard and the Mercury spacecraft designated the "Freedom 7" (floating in water below) were flown to the deck of the recovery ship within 11 minutes of splashdown. MR-3 was the first American human space mission. The spacecraft attained a maximum speed of 5,180 miles per hour, reached an altitude of 116 1/2 statute miles, and landed 302 statute miles downrange from Cape Canaver Stock Photo](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/GE4H8H/astronaut-alan-b-shepard-jr-pilot-of-the-mercury-redstone-3-mr-3-suborbital-GE4H8H.jpg "Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr., pilot of the Mercury-Redstone 3 (MR-3) suborbital spaceflight, is retrieved by a helicopter from the USS Lake Champlain during recovery operations in the western Atlantic Ocean. Shepard and the Mercury spacecraft designated the "Freedom 7" (floating in water below) were flown to the deck of the recovery ship within 11 minutes of splashdown. MR-3 was the first American human space mission. The spacecraft attained a maximum speed of 5,180 miles per hour, reached an altitude of 116 1/2 statute miles, and landed 302 statute miles downrange from Cape Canaver Stock Photo")
RMGE4H8H–Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr., pilot of the Mercury-Redstone 3 (MR-3) suborbital spaceflight, is retrieved by a helicopter from the USS Lake Champlain during recovery operations in the western Atlantic Ocean. Shepard and the Mercury spacecraft designated the "Freedom 7" (floating in water below) were flown to the deck of the recovery ship within 11 minutes of splashdown. MR-3 was the first American human space mission. The spacecraft attained a maximum speed of 5,180 miles per hour, reached an altitude of 116 1/2 statute miles, and landed 302 statute miles downrange from Cape Canaver
RMDA3EAR–Space NASA First Female ISS Commander astronaut Peggy A. Whitson on Oct. 10, 2007 commanding the International Space Station
RM2WG5EEM–Gemini 4 Astronaut Ed White, the first American to perform extravehicular activity, floats in zero gravity northeast of Hawaii. Attached to Gemini 4 capsule by a gold tape wrapped tether and a Hand-Held Self-Maneuvering Unit (HHSMU) or “zip gun” in his right hand. This now iconic photograph was taken by Astronauts James McDivitt on 3 June 1965.
RME77XCJ–Bust of 'Gagarin', Yuri Gagarin, the first cosmonaut in space, by N. Bondarenko, 1975, in the Sculpture Park, Kneiphof Island
RM2TJNRFG–A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with the Lucy spacecraft aboard is seen at Space Launch Complex 41, Thursday, 14 October 2021, at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Lucy will be the first spacecraft to study Jupiter's Trojan Asteroids. Like the mission's namesake - the fossilized human ancestor, 'Lucy,' whose skeleton provided unique insight into humanity's evolution - Lucy will revolutionize our knowledge of planetary origins and the formation of the solar system. An optimised version of an original NASA image. Credit: NASA/ B Ingalls
RM2TB3EW0–The National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, is a museum in Washington, D.C., in the United States dedicated to human flight
RF2GE0WFW–Gemini VI This picture of the Gemini VI spacecraft was taken through the hatch window of the Gemini VII spacecraft during rendezvous and station keeping maneuvers at an altitude of 160 miles above the Earth. With these missions, NASA successfully completed the first rendezvous of two human spacecraft. This photograph, taken by Gemini VII crewmembers Jim Lovell and Frank Borman, shows Gemini VI in orbit 160 miles (257 km) above Earth. The main purpose of Gemini VI, crewed by astronauts Walter Schirra and Thomas Stafford, was the rendezvous with Gemini VII.
RM2BX2J63–Ken Bowersox, acting Associate Administrator for Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, monitors the docking of the Crew Dragon spacecraft with the International Space Station from mission control at the Kennedy Space Center May 31, 2020 Cape Canaveral, in Florida. The spacecraft with astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken is the first commercial manned spacecraft to complete the journey.
RMKRJ7JB–Norman Augustine, chair of the Human Space Flight Review Committee, listens to a comment from the audience during the first of several public meetings at different U.S. locations, Wednesday, June 17, 2009, at the Carnegie Institution in Washington. The panel will examine ongoing and planned NASA development activities and potential alternatives in order to present options for advancing a safe, innovative, affordable and sustainable human space flight program following the space shuttle's retirement. The committee wil present its results by August 2009. Photo Credit: (NASA/Paul E. Alers) Norma
RMKYTGBN–The Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin (1934-1968) meeting astronauts from NASA's Gemini 4 program at the Paris International Air Show in June 1965. US Vice-President Hubert Humphrey is seated to Gagarin's right and French Premier Georges Pompidou is standing over his left shoulder.
RM2BPHF9K–NASA astronaut Doug Hurley, pictured here on November 7, 2018, will launch to the International Space Station on the Demo-2 mission. SpaceX and NASA are targeting May 27 for Falcon 9's launch of Crew Dragon's second demonstration mission (Demo-2) from historic Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program. NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley will be the first two NASA astronauts to fly onboard the Dragon spacecraft to and from the International Space Station, which will return human spaceflight to the United States since the Spac
RMB64HPY–Statue of the world's first human in space cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin at the main square in Gagarin (formerly Klushino), Russia
![Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin[a] ( 1934 – 1968). A tourist snapshot of the car carrying Yuri Gagarin on his visit to London, UK in July 1961. The Soviet cosmonaut visited the United Kingdom, having been credited as the first human being to travel into space on 12 April 1961 in Vostok I ------- Туристический снимок автомобиля, перевозимого Юрием Гагариным во время его визита в Лондон, Великобритания в июле 1961 года. Советский космонавт посетил Соединенное Королевство, будучи первым человеком, отправившимся в космос 12 апреля 1961 года. Stock Photo](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2K4059B/yuri-alekseyevich-gagarin-a-1934-1968-a-tourist-snapshot-of-the-car-carrying-yuri-gagarin-on-his-visit-to-london-uk-in-july-1961-the-soviet-cosmonaut-visited-the-united-kingdom-having-been-credited-as-the-first-human-being-to-travel-into-space-on-12-april-1961-in-vostok-i-1961-12-1961-2K4059B.jpg "Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin[a] ( 1934 – 1968). A tourist snapshot of the car carrying Yuri Gagarin on his visit to London, UK in July 1961. The Soviet cosmonaut visited the United Kingdom, having been credited as the first human being to travel into space on 12 April 1961 in Vostok I ------- Туристический снимок автомобиля, перевозимого Юрием Гагариным во время его визита в Лондон, Великобритания в июле 1961 года. Советский космонавт посетил Соединенное Королевство, будучи первым человеком, отправившимся в космос 12 апреля 1961 года. Stock Photo")
RM2K4059B–Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin[a] ( 1934 – 1968). A tourist snapshot of the car carrying Yuri Gagarin on his visit to London, UK in July 1961. The Soviet cosmonaut visited the United Kingdom, having been credited as the first human being to travel into space on 12 April 1961 in Vostok I ------- Туристический снимок автомобиля, перевозимого Юрием Гагариным во время его визита в Лондон, Великобритания в июле 1961 года. Советский космонавт посетил Соединенное Королевство, будучи первым человеком, отправившимся в космос 12 апреля 1961 года.
RM2K0395A–Rocket built to launch Vostok 1, the first spaceflight of the Vostok programme and the first human spaceflight in history. The Vostok space capsule was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome on April 12, 1961, with Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin aboard.
RM2NFDNK2–Soviet Space Poster - 'The Dreams Came True of 12 April - 1st Manned Space Flight. Yuri Gagarin cosmonaut the first human to journey in to space 1961
RM2AJE6M0–Retired NASA research mathematician and 'human computer' Katherine Johnson (who was featured in the film Hidden Figures) being recognized for her contributions in America’s first space flight mission at Carousel Park in downtown Hampton, Virginia on August 26, 2016. During the ceremony guests wished her a Happy 98th birthday.
![NASA Administrator Charles Bolden speaks with NASA staff in space suits at the Langley Research Center's Centennial float on Thursday, Dec. 1, 2016, at Langley Research Center in Hampton, VA. While in Hampton, Administrator Bolden also participated in several events highlighting NASA's "human computers" featured in the film "Hidden Figures". The film stars Taraji P. Henson as Katherine Johnson, the African American mathematician, physicist, and space scientist, who calculated flight trajectories for John Glenn's first orbital flight in 1962. Aubrey Gemignani) Stock Photo](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/HF830P/nasa-administrator-charles-bolden-speaks-with-nasa-staff-in-space-HF830P.jpg "NASA Administrator Charles Bolden speaks with NASA staff in space suits at the Langley Research Center's Centennial float on Thursday, Dec. 1, 2016, at Langley Research Center in Hampton, VA. While in Hampton, Administrator Bolden also participated in several events highlighting NASA's "human computers" featured in the film "Hidden Figures". The film stars Taraji P. Henson as Katherine Johnson, the African American mathematician, physicist, and space scientist, who calculated flight trajectories for John Glenn's first orbital flight in 1962. Aubrey Gemignani) Stock Photo")
RMHF830P–NASA Administrator Charles Bolden speaks with NASA staff in space suits at the Langley Research Center's Centennial float on Thursday, Dec. 1, 2016, at Langley Research Center in Hampton, VA. While in Hampton, Administrator Bolden also participated in several events highlighting NASA's "human computers" featured in the film "Hidden Figures". The film stars Taraji P. Henson as Katherine Johnson, the African American mathematician, physicist, and space scientist, who calculated flight trajectories for John Glenn's first orbital flight in 1962. Aubrey Gemignani)
RM2KB5KA8–Giant mural with Alexei Leonov (Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov) portrait wearing space helmet is seen in Kaliningrad, Russia, on 8 September 2019 Leonov is the first man to walk in space, and honorary citizen of Kaliningrad. On 18.03.1965, he became the first human to conduct extravehicular activity (EVA), exiting the capsule during the Voskhod 2 mission for a 12-minute spacewalk. (Photo by Michal Fludra/NurPhoto)
RM2AY8MCY–Fantastic Four (2005) directed by Tim Story and starring Ioan Gruffudd, Michael Chiklis, Chris Evans and Jessica Alba. A team on a science mission in space are exposure to cosmic radiation and gain superpowers.
RM2B039A1–The Sogdians established a trading network across the 2400 kilometres (1500 miles) from Sogdiana to China. In fact, the Sogdians turned their energies to trade so thoroughly that the Saka (Scythians) of the Kingdom of Khotan called all merchants suli, 'Sogdian', whatever their culture or ethnicity. An ossuary is a chest, box, building, well, or site made to serve as the final resting place of human skeletal remains. They are frequently used where burial space is scarce. A body is first buried in a temporary grave, then after some years the skeletal remains are removed and placed in an ossuary
RM2BTF183–On the eve of the fortieth anniversary of Apollo 11's first human landing on the Moon, Apollo 11 crew member, Michael Collins speaks during a lecture in honor of Apollo 11 at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, Sunday, July 19, 2009. (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
RM2TJNRFK–A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with the Lucy spacecraft aboard is seen is seen in this false colour infrared image at Space Launch Complex 41, 15 October 2021, at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, USA. Lucy will be the first spacecraft to study Jupiter's Trojan Asteroids. Like the mission's namesake – the fossilised human ancestor, 'Lucy,' whose skeleton provided unique insight into humanity's evolution – Lucy will revolutionise our knowledge of planetary origins and the formation of the solar system An optimised version of an original NASA image. Credit: NASA/ B Ingalls
RM2TB3EX7–The National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, is a museum in Washington, D.C., in the United States dedicated to human flight
RM2BX2J6D–Ken Bowersox, acting Associate Administrator for Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, monitors the docking of the Crew Dragon spacecraft with the International Space Station from mission control at the Kennedy Space Center May 31, 2020 Cape Canaveral, in Florida. The spacecraft with astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken is the first commercial manned spacecraft to complete the journey.
RMKRJDFW–The Soyuz TMA-21 spacecraft is lifted into position on the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Saturday, April 2, 2011. The Soyuz, which has been dubbed “Gagarin”, is launching one week shy of the 50th anniversary of the launch of Yuri Gagarin from the same launch pad in Baikonur on April 12, 1961 to become the first human to fly in space. The first stage of the Soyuz booster is emblazoned with the name “Gagarin” and the likeness of the first person to fly in space. Photo Credit (NASA/Carla Cioffi) Soyuz TMA-21 spacecraft is lifted into position on the launch pad
RF2D17WA5–Traditional Valais Rye-Bread-Baking workshop in Goppenstein-Erschmatt, Switzerland. Supervised kneading with Edmund Steiner: I'll first show you how I do it, and then I'll show you how it's easier! On the work surface dusted with flour, we form cone-shaped dough pieces. The perfect shape to put another stamp on your own bread
RM2BPHF9G–NASA astronaut Doug Hurley, pictured here on November 7, 2018, will launch to the International Space Station on the Demo-2 mission. SpaceX and NASA are targeting May 27 for Falcon 9's launch of Crew Dragon's second demonstration mission (Demo-2) from historic Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program. NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley will be the first two NASA astronauts to fly onboard the Dragon spacecraft to and from the International Space Station, which will return human spaceflight to the United States since the Spac
RMB64XME–Statue of the world's first human in space cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin at the main square in Gagarin (formerly Klushino), Russia
RM2M34WNB–Belgian astronaut Frank De Winne pictured during a press conference of the ESA European Space Agency and the Belgian Science Policy Office BELSPO, Monday 12 April 2021 in Brussels. The conference will commemorate the 60th anniversary of the first human to travel in space, and highlight a new recruiting campaign for astronauts. BELGA PHOTO BENOIT DOPPAGNE
RM2K02T5D–Yuri Gagarin was a Soviet Air Forces pilot and cosmonaut who became the first human to journey into outer space, achieving a major milestone in the Space Race; his capsule, Vostok 1, completed one orbit of Earth on 12 April 1961. Gagarin became an international celebrity and was awarded many medals and titles, including Hero of the Soviet Union, his nation's highest honour.
RMHCHMMF–Space pioneers Neil A. Armstrong and John H. Glenn share an embrace as they are introduced during the dedication of the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia on December 11, 2003. Armstrong flew the X-15 rocket plane, was the mission commander for Gemini 8, and on July 20, 1969, as commander of the Apollo 11 mission, ws the first human to walk on the Moon. Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth on February 20, 1962. Subsequently, he served as a United States senator from Ohio and was a mission specialist on the space shuttle STS-95 mi
RM2BF2HA1–Camera Leica Spectrographic 35mm Glenn Friendship 7. With this camera, a Leica 1g model, astronaut John H. Glenn, Jr.,carried out the first human-operated, astronomical experiment in space during his pioneering mission on February 20, 1962.
RMM23P31–Mary Winston Jackson (1921–2005) was an African American mathematician and aerospace engineer at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), which in 1958 became the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Mary worked at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, for most of her career, starting as a 'computer' at the segregated West Area Computing division. She took advanced engineering classes and in 1958 became NASA's first black female engineer. Jackson was featured in the movie Hidden Figures, as well as the book upon which the film was based.
RMEN8G6G–A portrait of Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, the first human to journey into outer space, is seen outside one of the Soyuz simulators as Expedition 43 NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly, Russian Cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Mikhail Kornienko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) participate in their second day of qualification exams Thursday, March 5, 2015 at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC) Soyuz training facility in Star City, Russia. The trio is preparing for launch to the International Space Station in their Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan Ma
RM2KB5KA5–Giant mural with Alexei Leonov (Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov) portrait wearing space helmet is seen in Kaliningrad, Russia, on 8 September 2019 Leonov is the first man to walk in space, and honorary citizen of Kaliningrad. On 18.03.1965, he became the first human to conduct extravehicular activity (EVA), exiting the capsule during the Voskhod 2 mission for a 12-minute spacewalk. (Photo by Michal Fludra/NurPhoto)
RM2F86YB2–St. Petersburg, Russia. 11th Apr, 2021. Rocket enthusiasts witness the launching of a rocket model in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the first human space flight in St. Petersburg, Russia, April 11, 2021. Credit: Irina Motina/Xinhua/Alamy Live News
RM2B039A5–The Sogdians established a trading network across the 2400 kilometres (1500 miles) from Sogdiana to China. In fact, the Sogdians turned their energies to trade so thoroughly that the Saka (Scythians) of the Kingdom of Khotan called all merchants suli, 'Sogdian', whatever their culture or ethnicity. An ossuary is a chest, box, building, well, or site made to serve as the final resting place of human skeletal remains. They are frequently used where burial space is scarce. A body is first buried in a temporary grave, then after some years the skeletal remains are removed and placed in an ossuary
RF2J15K3J–A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with the Lucy spacecraft aboard is seen at Space Launch Complex 41, Thursday, Oct. 14, 2021, at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Lucy will be the first spacecraft to study Jupiter's Trojan Asteroids. Like the mission's namesake – the fossilized human ancestor, 'Lucy,' whose skeleton provided unique insight into humanity's evolution – Lucy will revolutionize our knowledge of planetary origins and the formation of the solar system. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
RM2G7B1RT–A monochrome infrared image of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launching the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft on NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station. 30 May 2020. Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA. A new era of human spaceflight begins as American astronauts once again launch on an American rocket from US soil to low-Earth orbit for the first time since the conclusion of the Space Shuttle Program in 2011. A unique, optimised and digitally enhanced version of an NASA image by J Kowsky/ credit NASA
RMM0W8G2–Los Angeles, CA - Oct. 13, 2012: NASA's Endeavour space shuttle is on display during the retirement parade for the spacecraft, first launched in 1992.
RM2JNFR8J–NASA Administrator Bill Nelson speaks during a NASA briefing on the Artemis I Moon mission at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building, August 3, 2022 in Washington, D.C. The NASA Artemis I mission is the first integrated test of the deep space exploration systems: the Orion spacecraft, Space Launch System rocket, and supporting ground systems.
RMKRJDGA–The Soyuz TMA-21 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Tuesday, April 5, 2011 carrying Expedition 27 Soyuz Commander Alexander Samokutyaev, NASA Flight Engineer Ron Garan and Russian Flight Engineer Andrey Borisenko to the International Space Station. The Soyuz, which has been dubbed 'Gagarin', is launching one week shy of the 50th anniversary of the launch of Yuri Gagarin from the same launch pad in Baikonur on April 12, 1961 to become the first human to fly in space. Photo Credit: (NASA/Carla Cioffi) Soyuz TMA-21 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome
RF2M80E1Y–Sit-in blockades on the access road are the first to be broken up. Climate activists have barricaded themselves in the German lignite village of Lutzerath in North Rhine-Westphalia. The activists have been occupying the village for more than two years to prevent it from disappearing from the face of the earth, as agreed in a deal negotiated by political leaders. Energy company RWE mines lignite there, which activists blame for global warming and CO2 pollution. Early this morning, police began evacuating the village.
RM2BPHF38–NASA astronaut Robert Behnken, pictured here on November 7, 2018, will launch to the International Space Station on the Demo-2 mission. SpaceX and NASA are targeting May 27 for Falcon 9's launch of Crew Dragon's second demonstration mission (Demo-2) from historic Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program. NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley will be the first two NASA astronauts to fly onboard the Dragon spacecraft to and from the International Space Station, which will return human spaceflight to the United States since the S
RMB64HRT–Statue of the world's first human in space cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin (1934-1968) at the main square in Gagarin (formerly Klushino), Russia
RM2M34WN6–Belgian astronaut Frank De Winne pictured during a press conference of the ESA European Space Agency and the Belgian Science Policy Office BELSPO, Monday 12 April 2021 in Brussels. The conference will commemorate the 60th anniversary of the first human to travel in space, and highlight a new recruiting campaign for astronauts. BELGA PHOTO BENOIT DOPPAGNE
RM2A260A8–cosmonaut module from the Soviet Russian (USSR), Vostok-K spacecraft, launched in 1960, to carry Yuri Gagarin the first human to fly in space
RMPJXNTH–Space pioneers Neil A. Armstrong and John H. Glenn share an embrace as they are introduced during the dedication of the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia on December 11, 2003. Armstrong flew the X-15 rocket plane, was the mission commander for Gemini 8, and on July 20, 1969, as commander of the Apollo 11 mission, ws the first human to walk on the Moon. Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth on February 20, 1962. Subsequently, he served as a United States senator from Ohio and was a mission specialist on the space shuttle STS-95 mi
RM2CM7NRD–NASA’s Independent Verification & Validation Facility was renamed after agency icon, Katherine Johnson, on July 7, 2019 in Fairmont, West Virginia. Johnson, a “human computer” mathematician, was featured in the film Hidden Figures and helped put the first Americans in space and eventually on the Moon.
RMGE4F5Y–Born on June 9, 1946, Dr. Gaffney worked as a visiting senior scientist with the Life Sciences Division at NASA Headquarters from June 1986 to June 1989. He worked with the Operational Medicine group and was associate manager of Biomedical Research as well as program scientist for the D-2 Spacelab mission and the Research Animal Holding Facility. His experience in cardiac research and human physiology caused him to be chosen as a payload specialist on the June 1991 STS-40 Spacelab Life Sciences mission (SLS 1), the first shuttle mission dedicated to biomedical research. In space, Dr. Gaffney
RM2KB5KA7–Mural with Alexei Leonov (Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov) portrait wearing space helmet is seen in Kaliningrad, Russia, on 8 September 2019 Leonov is the first man to walk in space, and honorary citizen of Kaliningrad. On 18.03.1965, he became the first human to conduct extravehicular activity (EVA), exiting the capsule during the Voskhod 2 mission for a 12-minute spacewalk. (Photo by Michal Fludra/NurPhoto)
RM2F86YD7–St. Petersburg, Russia. 11th Apr, 2021. A rocket enthusiast kisses a rocket model in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the first human space flight in St. Petersburg, Russia, April 11, 2021. Credit: Irina Motina/Xinhua/Alamy Live News
RMPYJ7KE–On the eve of the fortieth anniversary of Apollo 11's first human landing on the Moon, Apollo 11 crew member, Michael Collins speaks during a lecture in honor of Apollo 11 at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, Sunday, July 19, 2009 (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
RF2J15K3Y–A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with the Lucy spacecraft aboard launches from Space Launch Complex 41, Saturday, Oct. 16, 2021, at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Lucy will be the first spacecraft to study Jupiter's Trojan Asteroids. Like the mission's namesake – the fossilized human ancestor, 'Lucy,' whose skeleton provided unique insight into humanity's evolution – Lucy will revolutionize our knowledge of planetary origins and the formation of the solar system. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
RM2K5E3T4–Apollo 11. First moon landing, 20 July 1969. Here, Astronaut Buzz Aldrin steps off the ladder from the Lunar Module and onto the moon's surface. Photo by Astronaut Neil Armstrong, who had, for 18 minutes, been the only human to have set foot on the moon. After this photo was taken, humans in the plural achieved this goal. For this reason, perhaps this is one of the most compelling photo of all moon landings. An ptimised NASA image. Credit: NASA
RM2RDK0G0–NASA employees tow space shuttle Atlantis from the Shuttle Landing Facility to an orbiter processing facility at the Kennedy Space Center for the final time after completing mission STS-135 on Thursday, July 21, 2011 in Cape Canaveral, Brevard County, FL, USA. Atlantis has spent a total of 307 days in space, orbited the Earth 4,848 times and traveled 125,935,769 miles since first being pressed into service in 1985. (Apex MediaWire Photo by Kim Shiflett/NASA)
RMCA4RAE–barge carrying space shuttle Enterprise turns downstream to give the press a photo op before heading in toward Intrepid berth
RM2JNFRAY–NASA Administrator Bill Nelson speaks during a NASA briefing on the Artemis I Moon mission at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building, August 3, 2022 in Washington, D.C. The NASA Artemis I mission is the first integrated test of the deep space exploration systems: the Orion spacecraft, Space Launch System rocket, and supporting ground systems.
RMKRJDJF–At the Kremlin Grand Palace in Moscow, former Russian cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, the first human to walk in space, kisses the hand of Ukrainian pop singer Sofia Rotaru during a gala ceremony April 12, 2011 marking the 50th anniversary of the launch of Yuri Gagarin as the first human to fly in space. The ceremony, which was attended by dignitaries and Russian and American space officials, was highlighted by remarks from Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. Credit: NASA Sofia Rotaru 2011
RF2WTAC2H–First film studio, then Deutsche Bioscop. The factory building was built in 1890 for the production of artificial flowers. In 1912, the first film was shot here in an adjoining glass studio. Totentanz with Asta NIelsen in the starring role. The first UFA studio in Potsdam is now part of the Rundfunk Berlin Brandenburg (RBB) site, Marlene-Dietrich-Allee, Potsdam, Brandenburg, Brandenburg, Germany
RM2BPHF9H–NASA astronaut Robert Behnken, pictured here on November 7, 2018, will launch to the International Space Station on the Demo-2 mission. SpaceX and NASA are targeting May 27 for Falcon 9's launch of Crew Dragon's second demonstration mission (Demo-2) from historic Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program. NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley will be the first two NASA astronauts to fly onboard the Dragon spacecraft to and from the International Space Station, which will return human spaceflight to the United States since the S
RMBT48J0–Relief showing the world's first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on the Monument to the Conquerors of Space in Moscow, Russia
RM2M34WP5–Belgian astronaut Frank De Winne pictured during a press conference of the ESA European Space Agency and the Belgian Science Policy Office BELSPO, Monday 12 April 2021 in Brussels. The conference will commemorate the 60th anniversary of the first human to travel in space, and highlight a new recruiting campaign for astronauts. BELGA PHOTO BENOIT DOPPAGNE
RF2JJX47A–Yuri Gagagin, soviet astronaut, first human in the space, red soviet flag, circa 1981. vintage postal stamp printed in Madagascar (previously Malagasy
RM2PC0K5D–Moscow, Russia. 09th Mar, 2023. The Monument to the Conquerors of Space in Moscow. 62nd anniversary of the first human space flight conducted by Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. The Museum of Cosmonautics in Moscow opened in April 1981. Credit: SOPA Images Limited/Alamy Live News
RM2CKP6K4–NASA 'human computer' Katherine Johnson watches the premiere of 'Hidden Figures' after a reception where she was honored along with other members of the segregated West Area Computers division of Langley Research Center, on Thursday, December 1, 2016, at the Virginia Air and Space Center in Hampton, Virginia. Johnson was the African American mathematician, physicist, and space scientist, who calculated flight trajectories for John Glenn's first orbital flight in 1962.
![Former NASA "human computer", Christine Richie, right, is interviewed at a reception to honor several members of the West Area Computers division of Langley Research Center on Thursday, Dec. 1, 2016, at the Virginia Air and Space Center in Hampton, VA. Afterward, the guests attended a premiere of "Hidden Figures" a film which stars Taraji P. Henson as Katherine Johnson, the African American mathematician, physicist, and space scientist, who calculated flight trajectories for John Glenn's first orbital flight in 1962. Aubrey Gemignani) Stock Photo](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/HF830W/former-nasa-quothuman-computerquot-christine-richie-right-is-interviewed-HF830W.jpg "Former NASA "human computer", Christine Richie, right, is interviewed at a reception to honor several members of the West Area Computers division of Langley Research Center on Thursday, Dec. 1, 2016, at the Virginia Air and Space Center in Hampton, VA. Afterward, the guests attended a premiere of "Hidden Figures" a film which stars Taraji P. Henson as Katherine Johnson, the African American mathematician, physicist, and space scientist, who calculated flight trajectories for John Glenn's first orbital flight in 1962. Aubrey Gemignani) Stock Photo")
RMHF830W–Former NASA "human computer", Christine Richie, right, is interviewed at a reception to honor several members of the West Area Computers division of Langley Research Center on Thursday, Dec. 1, 2016, at the Virginia Air and Space Center in Hampton, VA. Afterward, the guests attended a premiere of "Hidden Figures" a film which stars Taraji P. Henson as Katherine Johnson, the African American mathematician, physicist, and space scientist, who calculated flight trajectories for John Glenn's first orbital flight in 1962. Aubrey Gemignani)
RM2KB5KAC–Giant mural with Alexei Leonov (Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov) portrait wearing space helmet is seen in Kaliningrad, Russia, on 8 September 2019 Leonov is the first man to walk in space, and honorary citizen of Kaliningrad. On 18.03.1965, he became the first human to conduct extravehicular activity (EVA), exiting the capsule during the Voskhod 2 mission for a 12-minute spacewalk. (Photo by Michal Fludra/NurPhoto)
RM2F86YCW–St. Petersburg, Russia. 11th Apr, 2021. A rocket enthusiast launches his self-made rocket models in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the first human space flight in St. Petersburg, Russia, April 11, 2021. Credit: Irina Motina/Xinhua/Alamy Live News
RMPYJ9WY–On the eve of the fortieth anniversary of Apollo 11's first human landing on the Moon, Apollo 11 crew member, Michael Collins speaks during a lecture in honor of Apollo 11 at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, Sunday, July 19, 2009. (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
RF2J15K3T–A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with the Lucy spacecraft aboard launches from Space Launch Complex 41, Saturday, Oct. 16, 2021, at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Lucy will be the first spacecraft to study Jupiter's Trojan Asteroids. Like the mission's namesake – the fossilized human ancestor, 'Lucy,' whose skeleton provided unique insight into humanity's evolution – Lucy will revolutionize our knowledge of planetary origins and the formation of the solar system. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
RM2TJNRGN–A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with the Lucy spacecraft aboard launches from Space Launch Complex 41, 16 October 2021, at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Lucy will be the first spacecraft to study Jupiter's Trojan Asteroids. Like the mission's namesake - the fossilized human ancestor, 'Lucy,' whose skeleton provided unique insight into humanity's evolution - Lucy will revolutionize our knowledge of planetary origins and the formation of the solar system. Optimised version of an original NASA image / Credit: NASA/B Ingalls
RM2RDK07G–NASA employees tow space shuttle Atlantis from the Shuttle Landing Facility to an orbiter processing facility at the Kennedy Space Center for the final time after completing mission STS-135 on Thursday, July 21, 2011 in Cape Canaveral, Brevard County, FL, USA. Atlantis has spent a total of 307 days in space, orbited the Earth 4,848 times and traveled 125,935,769 miles since first being pressed into service in 1985. (Apex MediaWire Photo by Kim Shiflett/NASA)
RMCA4RAF–barge carrying space shuttle Enterprise pauses to give press & television cameras a photo op before heading in toward Intrepid Museum berth to complete transfer by crane to ship's flight deck
RM2HJCJ7W–Katherine Johnson working at Langley Research Center, Virginia, in 1962. Johnson (1918-2020) was a US physicist and mathematician, one of a number of African-American women hired to work as 'computers' at NACA (the predecessor to NASA). She worked at Langley from 1953 until her retirement in 1986. Over the course of her career, she calculated the trajectory of the 1961 flight of Alan Shepard, the first American in space, as well as working on the Apollo mission and the Space Shuttle Program.
RM2JNFRBA–NASA Administrator Bill Nelson speaks during a NASA briefing on the Artemis I Moon mission at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building, August 3, 2022 in Washington, D.C. The NASA Artemis I mission is the first integrated test of the deep space exploration systems: the Orion spacecraft, Space Launch System rocket, and supporting ground systems.
RMKRJDJE–At the Kremlin Grand Palace in Moscow, former Russian cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, the first human to walk in space, kisses the hand of Ukrainian pop singer Sofia Rotaru during a gala ceremony April 12, 2011 marking the 50th anniversary of the launch of Yuri Gagarin as the first human to fly in space. The ceremony, which was attended by dignitaries and Russian and American space officials, was highlighted by remarks from Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. Credit: NASA Alexei Leonov and Sofia Rotaru during a gala ceremony
RMP9BTNX–The cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin (1934-1968), the first human in outer space. Museum: State Central Museum of Contemporary History of Russia, Moscow.
RM2BPHF3D–NASA astronaut Robert Behnken, pictured here on January 13, 2020, will launch to the International Space Station on the Demo-2 mission. SpaceX and NASA are targeting May 27 for Falcon 9's launch of Crew Dragon's second demonstration mission (Demo-2) from historic Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program. NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley will be the first two NASA astronauts to fly onboard the Dragon spacecraft to and from the International Space Station, which will return human spaceflight to the United States since the S
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