Launch of chimpanzee Ham, 1961
Friendship 7 launch, 1962
First chimpanzee in space
Launch of Mercury-Atlas 7, 1962
Ranger 5 spacecraft launch preparations, 1962
Ranger 4 spacecraft launch, Atlas-Agena rocket, 1962
Ranger 5 spacecraft launch, Atlas-Agena rocket, 1962
Ranger 1 spacecraft launch, Atlas-Agena rocket, 1961
Space Launch System testing
Saturn V rocket launch
Discovery launch rollout, 2010
Viking 1 launch, 1975
Atlas-Agena rocket launch for Gemini 8
STS-118 launch, Space Shuttle Endeavour
Launch of MAVEN mission to Mars, 2013
First US manned space flight, 1961
Ariane 5 launch
Dual satellite launch
Space Shuttle final flight
Lunar Orbiter 1 launch, 1966
Space Shuttle Atlantis
Launch of the space shuttle Columbia
Discovery launching, 2007
Discovery in orbit, STS-133
Mercury-Atlas 3 rocket launch, 1961
Astronaut William Fisher standing on the foot restraint
Space Shuttle model, wind tunnel test
Discovery launch rollover, 2010
Discovery at launch pad, 2006
Discovery at launch pad, 2011
Discovery's final launch, 2011
Space Shuttle launch pad, August 2007
OFT-2 rocket launch
OSIRIS-REx launch, 2016
Falcon 9 rocket launch by SpaceX, 2016
Falcon 9 rocket launch by SpaceX, 2014
Friendship 7 spacecraft and John Glenn
Johannes Kepler ATV launch
Saturn V rocket engine
Boeing Orbital Flight Test-2 launch
Saturn V first stage horizontal assembly, 1968
Sixth Ariane 1 launch, 1983
Second Ariane 2 launch, 1987
Enos the astrochimp
Rocket launchpad
Return to Flight shuttle launch
Shuttle mission STS-121 launch, July 2006
Orion spacecraft launch abort testing, 2019
Atlas V rocket launch
Ariane 5 transportation
Mercury-Atlas 6 launch
Saturn V rocket, coloured image
Space shuttle on launchpad at night
Falcon Heavy first launch
Discovery departing the ISS, STS-133
International Space Station, 2011
Galileo IOV satellite launch
SpaceX's Crew Dragon launch abort test, 2015
Damaged Space Shuttle tile
Webb lift off on Ariane 5 rocket
Ariane 5 rocket launchpad, Guiana
Apollo 12 launch, 1969
Parker Solar Probe launch preparations, August 2018
Future space shuttle, artwork
Space shuttle and ISS shuttle, STS-118
Space Shuttle Endeavour, STS-118
Apollo mission test
First Apollo launch, 1966
Ariane 5's Vulcain engine
Launch of the space shuttle Endeavour, STS-77
Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft launch
Goddard rocket motors, 1936
Oberth's book on rocketry
German rocket factory, 1943
James Webb Space Telescope Launch
NASA astronaut Christa McAuliffe watching STS-61-A launch
View of KSC launch control, Apollo 11 count-down
Soyuz TMA-09M launch, May 2013
Tiling rocket launch, 1930s
Goddard rocket launch tower, 1935
X-48B Blended Wing Body aircraft model
Telstar 1 satellite launch, 1962
Shuttle launch of Palapa B2 satellite
Launch of an early rocket model
Apollo 11 CSM spacecraft in lunar orbit, 1969
Space Shuttle and Buran spacecrafts
Lunar Orbiter spacecraft, 1960s
Columbia launching on mission STS-80
Atlantis space shuttle, STS-122 mission
Space Shuttle launch
SpaceX Demo-2 liftoff
Ariane 5 rocket on launch pad
Saturn 1B rocket at Kennedy Space Center.
SpaceX Crew-2 launch
First Cape Canaveral rocket launch
SpaceX Crew Demo-1 launch, March 2019
SpaceX Crew Demo-1 after launch, March 2019
Delta IV rocket launch preparations, August 2017
Parker Solar Probe launch preparations, August 2017
Apollo 12 launch rehearsal, 1969
Apollo 1 crew in training, 1960s
Apollo 11 rollout before launch, July 1969
Ariane 5 rocket launch
Apollo 12 launch preparations, 1969
Apollo 12 lunar module preparations, 1969
Space Shuttle Atlantis docked on the ISS
Apollo 15 launch preparations, May 1971
Gus Grissom next to capsule, Mercury MR4
Mercury astronaut, Alan Shepard
Apollo 11 launch
Apollo 10 launch
NEPTUNE rocket, illustration
Mercury Seven Astronauts
Saturn V first stage erection, 1967
Saturn V first stage and Apollo spacecraft, 1968
Space Shuttle Discovery and carrier
Amateur rocketry
NASA SpaceX Crew-7 mission launch
CST-100 Starliner launch, December 2019
Apollo 12 spacecraft separation after launch, 1969
Apollo 12 spacecraft window after launch, 1969
Delta IV rocket launch
Vulcain engine testing
Space Shuttle simulator cockpit, 1999
Space Shuttle Atlantis launching, 2008
Shuttle mission STS-121 landing, 07/2006
Ariane rocket launch
V-2 prototype rocket launch, 1942
Sputnik 1 launch
Expedition 63 launch, April 2020
Launch of space shuttle Atlantis, STS-30
Saturn V first stage vertical assembly, 1967
Robert Goddard, US rocket scientist
Goddard rocket nose cone, 1935
Goddard rocket vanes, 1937
Goddard rocket research, 1916
Goddard rocket research, 1935
Goddard rocket research, 1940
Edoardo Amaldi ATV launch
STS-116 Space Shuttle Discovery launch