PIX4604560: Fusees Ariane 5 ES ATV and ECA - Illustration - The Ariane 5 ES ATV and ECA rockets - Illustration - Artist view of the Ariane 5 ES ATV rocket, on the left, compare to the Ariane 5 ECA rocket, on the right. Artist's impression of the Ariane 5 ES ATV (left) with the Ariane 5 ECA (right) / Bridgeman Images
PIX4604573: The European launch vehicle Vega - Illustration - European Vega Launcher - Illustration - Vega is a European Space Agency (ESA) launcher capable of placing a payload of up to 2 tonnes in low orbit. It is expected that it will join from 2010 the range of launchers of the space agency, which includes launchers Soyuz and Ariane. View of Vega artist on his shooting pitch at the Guyanese Space Center (CSG) in Kourou. Artist view of the new launch pad of ESA's Vega small satellite launcher at the Guyana Space Centre (CSG), Europe's Space Port, in Kourou, French Guiana. The Vega launcher will be operated from the former Ariane Launch Complex n* 1 (ELA-1), which was deactivated in 1989. Under development since 1998, the Vega launcher is an all - solid three - stage vehicle with a liquid - fuelled injection module, based on proven technologies from Ariane 5 booster stages and Fiatavio's Zefiro solid rocket motor. Vega will be marketed and operated by Arianespace, in parallel to Ariane 5. Vega is designed to loft single or multiple payloads to orbits up to 1,500 km in altitude. Its reference payload capability is about 1,500 kg to a circular 500 - km - high Sun - synchronous orbit but it can also loft satellites from 300 kg to more than 2 metric tons, as well as piggyback microsatellites of less than 100 kg each. This range of performance covers the needs for multiple applications in the fields of remote sensing, environmental monitoring, Earth science, space science, fundamental science as well as research and technology for future space applications and systems / Bridgeman Images
PIX4603236: Cargo SpaceX Dragon 05/2012 - The SpaceX Dragon automatic module seen over Namibia from the International Space Station (ISS), before its first mooring on 25 May 2012. SpaceX Dragon is the first private company spacecraft to be used to join the international space station. Backdropped against the Namib Desert on the Atlantic coast of Namibia, the SpaceX Dragon commercial cargo craft approaches the International Space Station on May 25, 2012 for grapple and berthing. Expedition 31 Flight Engineers Don Petpetit and Andre Kuipers grappled Dragon at 9:56 a.m. (EDT) with the Canadarm2 robotic arm and used the robotic arm to berth Dragon to the Earth - facing side of the station's Harmony node at 12:02 p.m / Bridgeman Images
PIX4603244: Cargo SpaceX Dragon 05/2012 - The SpaceX Dragon automatic module seen from the International Space Station (ISS) during its first mooring on May 25, 2012. SpaceX Dragon is the first private company spacecraft to be used to join the international space station. With clouds and land forming a backdrop, the SpaceX Dragon commercial cargo craft is grappled by the Canadarm2 robotic arm at the International Space Station. Expedition 31 Flight Engineers Don Petpetit and Andre Kuipers grappled Dragon at 9:56 a.m. (EDT) and used the robotic arm to berth Dragon to the Earth - facing side of the station's Harmony node at 12:02 p.m. May 25, 2012. Dragon became the first commercially developed space vehicle to be launched to the station to join Russian, European and Japanese resupply craft that service the complex while restoring a U.S. capability to deliver cargo to the orbital laboratory. Dragon is scheduled to spend about a week docked with the station before returning to Earth on May 31 for retrieval / Bridgeman Images
PIX4603527: The Orion MPVC module - Artist view - Artist view of the module lives Orion. This module is intended to take a crew to the Moon where asteroides will also be used to commute with the space station. An artist's impression of the Orion spacecraft with ESA's service module. The module sits directly below Orion's crew capsule and provides propulsion, power, thermal control, and water and air for four astronauts. The solar array spans 19 m and provides enough to power two households. A little over 5 m in diameter and 4 m high, it weighs 13.5 tons. The 8.6 tons of propellant will power one main engine and 32 smaller thrusters / Bridgeman Images
PIX4603565: ATV joins the international space station - Artist view - The ATV approaching ISS - Artist view - Artist view of the European automatic cargo ATV approaching the international space station (ISS). Artist's impression of the Automated Transfer Vehicle approaching the International Space Station (ISS) / Bridgeman Images
PIX4603568: ATV joins the international space station - Artist view - The ATV approaching ISS - Artist view - Artist view of the European automatic cargo ATV approaching the international space station (ISS). Artist's impression of the Automated Transfer Vehicle approaching the International Space Station (ISS) / Bridgeman Images
PIX4603624: ATV joins the international space station - Artist view - The ATV approaching ISS - Artist view - Artist view of the European automatic cargo ATV approaching the international space station (ISS). Artist's impression of the Automated Transfer Vehicle approaching the International Space Station (ISS) / Bridgeman Images
PIX4603651: ISS: The Cupola module - Cupola module on ISS - Artist view of the Cupola module installs on the Tranquility module (Node - 3) of the International Space Station (ISS). Artist's view of the Cupola mounted on the Node - 3 module of the International Space Station (ISS). This dome - shaped structure fitted with seven specially developed windows, will provide astronauts with a panoramic view for observing and guiding operations outside the ISS, as well as an unprecedented view of Earth. With a diameter of about 2 m and height of 1.5 m, the European - built Cupola provides a 'shirtsleeve' working environment for two crew members. The ergonomically designed interior is equipped with workstations from which astronauts will be able to control the station's robotic arm. The Cupola is part of ESA's contribution to the infrastructure of the International Space Station, a program conducted in partnership with the United States, Russia, Japan, Canada and Brazil / Bridgeman Images
PIX4603664: Space Shuttle Hermes - Artist's view - European spaceplane Hermes - Illustration - Artist's view of the European Space Shuttle project Hermes, 1987. This reusable space plane was to be launched by an Ariane 5 rocket and take several spationauts into space. The project under study in the 1980s was finally abandoned in 1993. Artwork made in 1987 showing the european space shuttle Hermes in space. This space shuttle was to be launched atop an ariane 5 rocket and should carry astronauts and payloads in space. First studied at the beginning of eighties, this project was cancelled in 1993 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4603702: Space Shuttle Hermes - Artist's view - European spaceplane Hermes - Illustration - Artist's view of the European Space Shuttle project Hermes, 1989. This reusable space plane was to be launched by an Ariane 5 rocket and take several spationauts into space. The project under study in the 1980s was finally abandoned in 1993. Artwork made in 1989 showing the european space shuttle Hermes in space. This space shuttle was to be launched atop an ariane 5 rocket and should carry astronauts and payloads in space. First studied at the beginning of eighties, this project was cancelled in 1993 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4603809: Guiana space centre - Guiana space centre - The technical center of the Guiana space centre in Kourou. The Jupiter control room is the building located next to the model of the Ariane 5 rocket. The Technical Centre (CT) of the Guiana Space Centre (CSG), Europe's space port. Located some 14 km East from the Ariane Launch Complexes (ELAS) the CT incorporates all the CSG headquaters as well as managing and control facilities, including the Jupiter Mission Control Centre (the large building close to the Ariane 5 mock - up), and the initial S1 Payload Processing Facility (EPCU) for satellite checkout (not visible) / Bridgeman Images
PIX4601281: Astronaut and space suits. ISS. 04/2004 - Astronaut and space suits in the international space station 04/2004 - Edward M. (Mike) Fincke deals with the Extravehicular Mobility Unit. ISS Expedition 9. 25/04/2004 Astronaut Edward M. (Mike) Fincke, Expedition 9 NASA ISS science officer and flight engineer, works with the Extrahicular Mobility Unit (EMU) spacesuits in the Quest airlock of the International Space Station (ISS). (25 April 2004) / Bridgeman Images
PIX4601402: Extravehicular release of Piers J. Sellers and Michael E. Fossum 07/2006 - Extravehicular activity on Robotic arm - July 8 2006 - Extrahicular exit of Piers J. Sellers (right) and Michael E. Fossum. The two astronauts work at the end of the manipulative arm of the space shuttle Discovery. Mission STS-121 (8 July 2006). Astronauts Piers J. Sellers (red stripes) and Michael E. Fossum, STS - 121 mission specialists, work in tandem on the shuttle's Remote Manipulator System/Orbiter Boom Sensor System (RMS/OBSS) during the mission's first scheduled session of extravehicular activity (EVA). July 8, 2006 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4601507: Haircutting in the International Space Station - Haircutting in the International Space Station - Astronaut Jeffrey N. Williams cuts his hair in the Zarya module of the International Space Station (ISS). May 2006. Astronaut Jeffrey N. Williams, Expedition 13 NASA space station science officer and flight engineer, trims his hair in the Zarya module of the International Space Station. Williams used hair clippers fashioned with a vacuum device to garner freshly cut hair. 9 May 200 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4601649: Return to Earth of a Soyuz ship - Soyuz recovery - 04/2007 - Return to Earth of the Soyuz TMA capsule - 9 April 21, 2007. On board, astronaut Michael E. Lopez-Alegria, Charles Simonyi and cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin. The Soyuz TMA - 9 spacecraft floats to a landing southwest of Karaganda, Kazakhstan at approximately 6:30 p.m. local time on April 21, 2007. Onboard were astronaut Michael E. Lopez - Alegria, Expedition 14 commander and NASA space station science officer; cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin, Soyuz commander and flight engineer representing Russia's Federal Space Agency; and U.S. spaceflight participant Charles Simonyi / Bridgeman Images
PIX4601678: Patrick Forrester extravehicular release 06/2007 - Patrick Forrester extravehicular release. Space Shuttle Atlantis is visible, moored at ISS-Expedition 15. 13 June 2007. Anchored to a foot restraint on the Space Station Remote Manipulator System (SSRMS) or Canadarm2, astronaut Patrick Forrester, STS - 117 mission specialist, participates in the mission's second planned session of extravehicular activity (EVA), as construction resumes on the International Space Station. Among other tasks, Forrester and astronaut Steven Swanson (out of frame), mission specialist, removed all of the launch locks holding the 10 - foot - wide solar alpha rotary joint in place and began the solar array retraction. Space Shuttle Atlantis docked to the station is visible at left / Bridgeman Images
PIX4601686: Extravehicular release of Rick Mastracchio 08 - 2007 - Rick Mastracchio extravehicular activity 08 - 2007 - Extravehicular release of Rick (Richard) Mastracchio. ISS - Expedition 15. 15 - 08 - 2007 Astronaut Rick Mastracchio, STS - 118 mission specialist, participates in the mission's third planned session of extravehicular activity (EVA) as construction and maintenance continue on the International Space Station. During the 5 - hour, 28 - minute spacewalk, Mastracchio and astronaut Clay Anderson (out of frame), Expedition 15 flight engineer, relocated the S - Band Antenna Sub - Assembly from Port 6 (P6) to Port 1 (P1) truss, installed a new transponder on P1 and retrieved the P6 transponder. 15 Aug 200 / Bridgeman Images