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Images Dated 8th July 2008

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Images Dated 8th July 2008: Soviet satellite monitoring, 1958

Soviet satellite monitoring, 1958
Soviet satellite monitoring. Telescopes being used, in 1958, by Soviet astronomers, to monitor a satellite as it passes overhead

Images Dated 8th July 2008: Spacecraft model, Soviet exhibition, 1927

Spacecraft model, Soviet exhibition, 1927
Spacecraft model from a Soviet exhibition held in 1927. This interplanetary spacecraft model was built by the Baltic German Soviet rocket engineer Friedrich Zander )

Images Dated 8th July 2008: Oil well pump

Oil well pump
Oil pump at an oil well. This machine is commonly known as a nodding donkey or jack pump. It is used to draw crude oil from a well

Images Dated 8th July 2008: Soviet Almaz space station construction

Soviet Almaz space station construction. This is the third-generation Almaz 1v automated space station. The Almaz program was a series of military satellites that were launched as " Salyut"

Images Dated 8th July 2008: Soyuz docking mission, news reports, 1969

Soyuz docking mission, news reports, 1969
Front-page Western news reports on the Soviet Soyuz docking mission of January 1969, the first time two manned spacecraft had docked

Images Dated 8th July 2008: Mir space station cosmonauts, 1987

Mir space station cosmonauts, 1987
Mir space station cosmonauts. Soviet cosmonauts Yuri Romanenko and Aleksandr Laveykin assembling an electrical power pack on the Mir space station, in 1987

Images Dated 8th July 2008: Soviet Luna 16 spacecraft, 1970

Soviet Luna 16 spacecraft, 1970
Soviet Luna 16 spacecraft model, showing its launch from the Moon. The Luna 16 unmanned space probe was launched by the Soviet Union on 12th September 1970

Images Dated 8th July 2008: Soviet GIRD-07 rocket, 1934

Soviet GIRD-07 rocket, 1934
Soviet GIRD-07 rocket. This rocket was built in the 1930s by a Russian rocketry group called GIRD (the Moscow Group for Reactive Motion)

Images Dated 8th July 2008: Soviet GIRD-09 rocket, 1933

Soviet GIRD-09 rocket, 1933
Soviet GIRD-09 rocket. This was the first Soviet liquid-propelled rocket. GIRD 09, was launched on 17th August 1933, in the Nakhabino forests, near Moscow, Russia

Images Dated 8th July 2008: Soviet Merkulov rocket, 1936

Soviet Merkulov rocket, 1936
Soviet Merkulov rocket. This experimental two-stage rocket was designed by the Soviet engineer Igor Merkulov in 1936. Merkulov was part of GIRD, the Moscow Group for Reactive Motion

Images Dated 8th July 2008: Soviet rocketry museum, 1959

Soviet rocketry museum, 1959
Soviet rocketry museum. Museum visitor looking at the GIRD-09 rocket, the first Soviet liquid-propelled rocket. This rocket was launched in 1933 by a Russian rocketry group called GIRD

Images Dated 8th July 2008: Solar power plant, Nevada, USA

Solar power plant, Nevada, USA
Solar power plant. Aerial photograph of Nevada Solar One, a 64 megawatt capacity power plant located in Boulder City near Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

Images Dated 8th July 2008: Solar parabolic mirror, California, USA

Solar parabolic mirror, California, USA
Solar parabolic mirror. Close-up of a solar energy generating systems (SEGS) parabolic (curved) mirror in Californias Mojave desert, USA

Images Dated 8th July 2008: Electricity consumption

Electricity consumption. Indoor and outdoor lighting in a row of housing

Solar parabolic mirror, California, USA
Solar parabolic mirror. Close-up of a solar energy generating systems (SEGS) parabolic (curved) mirror in Californias Mojave desert, USA

Solar power plant, Nevada, USA
Solar power plant. Aerial photograph of Nevada Solar One, a 64 megawatt capacity power plant located in Boulder City near Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

Solar parabolic mirror, California, USA
Solar parabolic mirror. Close-up of a solar energy generating systems (SEGS) parabolic (curved) mirror in Californias Mojave desert, USA

Solar power plant, Nevada, USA
Solar power plant. Aerial photograph of Nevada Solar One, a 64 megawatt capacity power plant located in Boulder City near Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

Images Dated 8th July 2008: Sewage treatment plant

Sewage treatment plant. Aerial photograph of aeration tanks at a sewage works. This stage is used to treat sewage after most of the solid waste (sludge) has been removed in settlement tanks

Images Dated 8th July 2008: Cosmonaut Titov, Vostok 2, 1961

Cosmonaut Titov, Vostok 2, 1961
Soviet cosmonaut Gherman Titov (1935-2000), preparing to be launched into space on the Vostok 2 spacecraft, on 6th August 1961. Titov was the second person to orbit the Earth after Gagarin

Images Dated 8th July 2008: Waxing gibbous Moon

Waxing gibbous Moon. The moon is approaching a full moon (increasing in size) and is therefore said to be waxing. It is gibbous when it is more than half full

Images Dated 8th July 2008: Joseph Priestley, British chemist

Joseph Priestley, British chemist
Joseph Priestley (1733-1804), British chemist and Christian minister. Priestley was the first to isolate oxygen and the first to suggest a connection between blood and air

Images Dated 8th July 2008: Mountain stream, Swiss Alps

Mountain stream, Swiss Alps
Mountain stream cascading beneath a mountain summit. Photographed in the Susten Pass, Swiss Alps, Switzerland

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