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The space shuttle being flown to Florida after landing in California (1998)
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Sally Ride, the first American woman in space (1983)
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Bruce McCandless II ventures more than 300 feet away from the shuttle using a jet powered pack. This was the first untethered spacewalk (1984)
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The Hubble Ultra Deep Field records the deepest and most sensitive image every taken of the night sky in visible wavelengths. The image took roughly 400 orbits to produce and shows more than 10,000 galaxies (2004)
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The destruction of the Challenger only 73 seconds after takeoff has become a symbol of American resilience (1986)
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Ed White becomes the first American to walk in space during the Gemini 4 mission (1965)
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Buzz Aldrin photographs his footprint on the moon (1969)
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Thirteen days after setting out towards Jupiter, Voyager 1 took the first long distance photo of the Earth and moon together (1977)
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President Nixon greets the crew of Apollo 11 upon their return to Earth while they are in quarantine aboard a recovery ship (1969)
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The "Mercury seven" were NASA's first astronauts (1971)
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The first up close image of Jupiter's Great Red Spot, taken by the Voyager mission (1979)
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The first television picture of the Earth taken by TIROS 1, the first weather satellite (1960)
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Viking 2 photographs a pink Martian sky, owing to the dust hanging in the atmosphere (1976)
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The Columbia becomes the first Space Shuttle to lift off (1981)
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10 months after Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the Earth (1962)
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Viking 1 takes the first photo of Mars 7 years to the day after Neil Armstrong walked on the moon (1976)
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The Cosmic Background Explorer records radiation left over from the Big Bang (1992)
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The liftoff of Apollo 11 on its way to the moon (1969)
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The Pillars of Creation, an area with lots of star birth located in the Eagle Nebula. This color enhanced photo has become one of the Hubble Telescopes most famous (1995)
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Earthrise taken by Apollo 8 (1968)
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President Kennedy calls for a moon landing before the end of the decade (1961)
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The International Space Station, the largest object ever flown in space (2008)
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Repairing the Hubble Telescope (1993)
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Voyager 1 photographs a volcanic eruption on Jupiter's moon, Io. It was the first volcanic eruption seen beyond the Earth (1979)
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Buzz Aldrin on the moon with Neil Armstrong reflected in his visor. This image has become one of NASA's most iconic. In fact, many astronaut depictions since then have been shown with the bent arm (1969)
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