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Hevelius: 1652 eclipse. Johannes Hevelius, Epistolae IV (Danzig, 1654), plate. astronomy.edwardw...
Cocoa Beach surfers watch Atlantis' launch on September 8, 2000.
Visible from outer space: Incredible satellite footage captures the moment Iceland's volcano erupted
On May 5, 1961 NASA astronaut Alan Shepard become the first American in space. His historic flight lasted 15 minutes, 28 seconds.
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The Expedition 27 crew photographed this sunset over western South America from aboard the International Space Station.
Endeavour's Final Roll Bathed in xenon lights, space shuttle Endeavour moves along the crawlerway from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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Map of the route of the Terra Nova Expedition, 1910-1913, in which Robert Scott was beaten to the South Pole by Roald Amundsen by 33 days. Scott's entire party died on the return journey.
On 12 April 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel into space, launched into orbit on the Vostok 3KA-3 spacecraft (Vostok 1).
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In 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton assembled a crew for his ship, the Endurance, and attempted to cross the Antarctic continent by passing through the South Pole. He brought along with him a color photographer, Australian Frank Hurley, who documented the ambitious expedition even as it took a near-disastrous turn in 1915 when the ship became "inexorably trapped" in the ice shelf.
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