Space Exploration

The out-of-this-world history of humans in space

MOMENTS THAT MATTERED

20 July, 1969 - The Moon Landing

One small step for Man, one giant leap for Mankind

SURPRISING FACTS

10 Out-Of-This-World Facts About the International Space Station

From its effect on time to space toilets

HISTORIC IMAGES

9 Out-of-This-World Photos From Space

The final frontier on film

The International Space Station in Street View

An out-of-this world experience of life in space

EXPLORE in 360˚

Astronauts and Cosmonauts

The people who've boldly gone where no one's been before

The first conquerors of open space

Museum of Cosmonautics

Feminine face of space

Museum of Cosmonautics

The Voskhod Three

Tsiolkovsky State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics

Historical Figure

Alan Shepard

Historical Figure

Yuri Gagarin

HISTORICAL FIGURE

Peggy Annette Whitson

Historical Figure

John Glenn

Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin, Jr. on the moon

Neil A. Armstrong

Edward H. White performs the United State's first space walk

James A. McDivitt

Apollo 11 Moonwalk

US astronaut Bruce McCandless conducting 1st untethered space walk

Cosmonaut Alexey Leonov in outer space

Apollo 11 astronuat Neil Armstrong in space capsule after his historic walk on moon

Alan B. Shepard, Jr. plants American flag on the moon

Edgar D. Mitchell

Neil Armstrong's boot and foot print on the moon after the first step on the lunar surface

Neil A. Armstrong

Apollo Xi Launch

The International Space Station

Astronaut Piers J. Sellers working on the International Space Station (ISS)

Earthrise, the planet Earth seen rising above the surface of the moon

William A. Anders

Apollo Xi Splashdown

Barbara R. Morgan

Lunar module, Antares

Alan B. Shepard, Jr.

Bird's Eye View of Pathfinder Landing Site

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Color picture of Mars

From biplanes to space stations

The story of air and space travel

Galileo and space exploration

Museo Galileo - Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza

Canada’s Jet-Age Dream: The Avro Arrow

Canada Aviation and Space Museum

Explore Aviation History

Frontiers of Flight Museum

Cosmonauts

Science Museum

The first Spacewalk

Research & Development Production Enterprise Zvezda

The museum of "RD&PE "ZVEVDA" JSC named after Academician G. I. Severin"

Research & Development Production Enterprise Zvezda

Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP)

Stafford Air & Space Museum

Day in the Life of a Cosmonaut

Tsiolkovsky State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics

Innovators & Explorers: The Past Inspires the Future

City of Downey - Columbia Memorial Space Center

NASA's Unsung Hero: The Scout Launch Vehicle Program

U.S. National Archives

City of Downey Columbia Memorial Space Center

City of Downey - Columbia Memorial Space Center

Space City: Photographs from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

The Viking Mars Mission

The Viking Mars Missions Education and Preservation Project

Reaching for the stars

Capturing deep space in photographs

Pillars Of Creation

Cone Nebula

Hubble Ultra Deep Field

Mars

Composite of a red star starburst

Jupiter

The Crab Nebula

Colliding Spiral Galaxies

Interstellar collision of the Antennae galaxies

Mars

Cluster of galaxies called Abell 2218

Space exploration on film

Galileo’s New World

Apollo 15 Cancellation

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

View the Earth shot of the International Space Station. (NASA)

(NASA)

Tour of Cosmonauts: Birth of the Space Age, part 4

Challenger Learning Center - Downey, California

In collaboration with

Tsiolkovsky State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics

Russia

Research & Development Production Enterprise Zvezda

Russia

City of Downey - Columbia Memorial Space Center

United States

Stafford Air & Space Museum

United States

Science Museum

United Kingdom

Museum of Cosmonautics

Russia

Museo Galileo - Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza

Italy

Canada Aviation and Space Museum

Canada