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Soviet N-209 transpolar flight crew, 1937
Soviet N-209 transpolar flight crew, before their fatal flight on 12th August 1937. They flew a modified DB-A aircraft (background) from Moscow over the Arctic towards Alaska

Chelyuskin search and rescue, 1934
Chelyuskin search and rescue in 1934. Aeroplane after landing in Provideniya Bay in the far north-east of Russia, to rescue the crew and passengers on the ship Chelyuskin

Soviet Pe-2 bomber and crew, 1942
Soviet Pe-2 bomber and crew. Soviet pilots preparing for a flight in a Pe-2 bomber during World War II. This bomber was built by the design bureau led by Soviet aviation engineer Vladimir Petlyakov

Tupolev and his glider, 1910
Tupolev and his glider. Russian aircraft pioneer and designer Andrei Tupolev (1888-1972) flying in a glider in Lefortovo Park, Moscow, Russia, in 1910

Testing motor horns, 1929
Testing motorcar horns. Researchers from the National Physical Laboratory assessing the quality of sound from various types of motorcar horns. Photographed in 1929

Testing gear lubricants, 1920
Testing gear lubricants. Technicians assessing the quality of various lubricant oils in a Lanchester worm gear machine. Photographed at the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, UK, in 1920

Road testing machine, 1911
Road testing machine. This machine was used to determine which paving techniques and materials were the most hard-wearing when exposed to heavy loads and high traffic levels

Early petrol motors, historical artwork. The first commercially successful petrol-driven motors were built in the second half of the 19th century by the Belgian Etienne Lenoir

Mining safety cage, 19th century
Mining safety cage. 19th-century artwork of the safety cage developed by Pierre-Joseph Fontaine (1810-1877) in 1849. The cage contains coal being lifted to the surface from a coal mine

Steam turbine, historical artwork. This is an artists impression of what a turbine described by Hero of Alexandria may have looked like

Bridge wind tunnel test, 1954
Bridge wind tunnel test. The wind tunnel and the large-scale model of the bridge will be used to test the structural integrity of the bridge in strong winds

DEUCE computer, 1956
DEUCE computer. Operator using the Digital Electronic Universal Computing Engine (DEUCE) computer. This was a commercial version of the Pilot ACE (Automatic Computing Engine) design

Differential analyser, 1954
Differential analyser. This part of the differential analyser equipment is called a double function table. Differential analysers were used to carry out mathematical calculations

Pilot ACE computer, 1952
Pilot ACE computer. Controller operating the Automatic Computing Engine (ACE) pilot model. This was a preliminary version of the full ACE design

Early computers, 1952
Early computers. Clockwise from upper left, these are: the Frieden STW-10, the Marchant Fa-10, the Brinsviga 20, the Monroe Ca-10, and the Facit LX

Electronic simulator, 1954
Electronic simulator. This is the enlarged version of this machine, which was an early form of computing hardware used to carry out simulations

Electrical power socket

Radiation measurements, 1948
Radiation measurements. Researcher (right) using a Geiger Mueller gamma ray counter to measure the radiation levels in a test subject (left)

Radon measurements, 1948
Radon measurements. Researcher using an alpha-particle ionisation method to measure the radon content of breath samples. Radon is a radioactive gas found in nature

Fallout shelter supplies, USA, Cold War
Fallout shelter supplies at an exhibit in the USA during the Cold War. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the Cold War between the USA and the USSR was reaching its peak

Cold War medical training, 1958
Cold War medical training. US Navy nurses observing a demonstration of radiation survey instruments as part of the nuclear nursing course at the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland

Harvesting cotton sprouted in space
Harvesting cotton which has been sprouted in space, Russia, 1986. Scientists are interested in the ability of plants to grow in a weightless environment

Early Bird communications satellite, 1965
Early Bird communications satellite. Engineer preparing Early Bird, the worlds first commercial communications satellite, for simulated vacuum tests at Hughes Aircraft Company, Los Angeles, USA

Vostok 2 control centre, USSR, 1961
Vostok 2 control centre, USSR, on 6th August 1961, during Gherman Titovs spaceflight aboard the Vostok 2 spacecraft. Vostok 2 was a successful Soviet space mission

Soviet space food and heater, 1962
Soviet space food and heater. In-flight food heater (left) with food tubes (right), designed to be used in space by Soviet cosmonauts

Closed ecosystem space research
Harvesting crops in a self-sufficient ecosystem. In order to make interstellar space travel possible, it will be necessary, due to the large distances involved

Cosmonauts in space clothing
Cosmonauts in soviet space underclothing. Vladimir Dzhnibekov and Victor Savinykh, Soyuz T-13 cosmonauts in their space underwear at the Gagarin Training Centre in June 1985

Soviet space food. Selection of the food taken onboard space flights by Soviet cosmonauts. The problems of preparing and eating food whilst in zero gravity led to scientists producing packaged

German rocket factory, 1943
Peenemunde rocket factory, Germany, 1943. Rocket tanks are seen in the foreground, the aft parts of the rockets are on the left, and the nose cones are in the background on the right

German rocket pioneers, 1932
German rocket pioneers. Klaus Riedel (white coat) and other members of the German spaceflight society (Verein fur Raumschiffahrt, VfR) at their testing ground in 1932

Konstantin Tsiolkovskys rocket plan
Konstantin Tsiolkovskys planned rocket ship. Although he never built a rocket, Tsiolkovskys (1857-1935) work was highly influential in the development of Soviet rocket and space technology

V-2 bumper rocket launch in USA
V-2 bumper rocket launch, USA, White Sands, New Mexico. After the Second World War a number of German rocket scientists defected to the USA

Martian rock. Micrograph of a patch of rock on Mars. This is a close-up of part of a bedrock outcrop near to where the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity landed on 24 January 2004

Soviet experiments on lunar soil, 1970
Soviet experiments on lunar soil. The first Soviet mission to return a sample of lunar soil to the Earth was Luna 16, which landed back on Earth on 24 September 1970

Soviet lunar rock sample, 1970
Soviet lunar rock sample. The first Soviet mission to return a sample of lunar rock to the Earth was the robotic probe Luna 16, which landed back on Earth on 24 September 1970

Lunar crater, Apollo 17 photograph
Lunar crater. Apollo 17 orbital photograph showing the large crater Sarabhai (formerly called Bessel A, left), located in the Mare Serenitatis ( sea of serenity ) region of the Moon

Moons surface, Zond 7 image
Moons surface. Craters on the surface of the Moon, as photographed by the Soviet lunar probe Zond 7 on 11 August 1969. Zond 7 was an unmanned Soviet spacecraft that launched on 7 August 1969

Far side of the Moon, Apollo 11 orbital photograph. NASAs Apollo 11 was the first mission to put a man on the Moon, in July 1969

Crater Timocharis on the Moon photographed from the orbiting Apollo 15 spacecraft in 1971. This meteorite crater is around 32 kilometres (km) wide, and was photographed from 100 km above it

Apollo 13 planned landing site on Moon
Apollo 13 planned landing site in the Fra Mauro area on the Moon. The Fra Mauro area is a flat, vast highland centred at 17 degrees and 36 minutes west longitude and 3 degrees

Moonlit clouds

Internal meteorite structure. Dendritic (branching) crystalline microscopic growth observed inside a meteorite. The structure of this growth gives researchers clues as to the origins

2 day old Moon with earthshine
2 day old Moon with Earthshine. Optical image of a waxing (increasing in apparent size) Moon. The bright crescent (right) of this Moon is directly illuminated by sunlight

Luna 1 spacecraft at the Moon, 1959, computer artwork. Luna 1, an unmanned probe, was the first spacecraft of the Soviet Luna programme

Venera 4 Soviet space probe
Venera 4, Soviet Venus space probe. The heat shielding has been removed from the upper section. The Venera series of probes were used to explore the planet Venus

Luna 3 spacecraft. Replica model of the unmanned Soviet Luna 3 spacecraft. This was launched on 4 October 1959. It was the third spacecraft to visit the Moon

Handcuffed man
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Womans naked back

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