Images Dated 7th October 2003

Young Orangutan Orphan (Pongo pygmaeus) at Rehab Center, Sepilok, Borneo

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London Town, BR poster, 1948-1965

Poster produced for British Rail (BR) to promote London as a historic city that is easily reached by train. The poster shows a detailed aerial map of London with its landmarks, with shields of each of the boroughs around the border and a royal procession along the bottom. Artwork by an unknown artist

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Wernher von Braun, German rocket designer

Dr Wernher von Braun (1912-77), German-American rocket designer. Von Braun was the son of a German baron and Government minister. He was educated at Zurich and Berlin Institutes of Technology. He started work on rocket design in 1932, becoming technical head of the German Peenemunde research centre in 1938. There he was responsible for the development of the V-2 rocket. At the end of the war, von Braun surrendered to the American army. He became a leading figure in the American space programme, designing the first US satellite launcher (Jupiter) in 1958 and overseeing the design of the Saturn rocket in the 1960s. He left NASA in 1972, and died of cancer five years later

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