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Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster Drop Test Vehicle (SRB-DTV) captive flight on NB-52B.

Astronaut Edward H. White II, pilot on the Gemini-Titan IV (GT-4) spaceflight, floats in the zero gravity of space outside the Gemini IV spacecraft.

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Liberty Ship S.S. Jeremiah O'Brien slid down the ways at the New England Shipbuilding Corporation in South Portland, Maine.

Late fall day in New England. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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The Santa Monica Pier. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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This view of a ground squirrel is a common sight along the Pacific Coast. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Grand Canyon Panorama. Old Mammoth Road. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Bee fly on a common blue violet

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Sunset scene in rural Tom Green County, Texas, northeast of San Angelo. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Las Vegas Strip. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Using a black light, a technician closely inspects one of NASA's twin Radiation Belt Storm Probes inside the clean room high bay at Astrotech payload processing facility.

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The space shuttle Endeavour is seen projected in the sky as powerful xenon lights illuminate launch pad 39a shortly.

As it arcs into space, space shuttle Discovery is lighted by sunlight after leaving the darker skies over NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on the STS-119 mission.

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Space shuttle Atlantis and its four-member STS-135 crew head toward Earth orbit and rendezvous with the International Space Station, 8 July 2011.

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Making history with the first-ever launch on Independence Day, Space Shuttle Discovery rockets into the blue sky on mission STS-121, trailing fiery exhaust from the main engine nozzles.

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North American Aviation A-5A Vigilante arrived from the Naval Air Test Center to the NASA Flight Research Center.

A crane lifts the second half of the B-level work platforms, B north, for NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket.

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Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin, pilot for the Gemini-12 spaceflight, stands up in the open hatch of the spacecraft during the first day of the four-day mission in space.

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Bioreactor Demonstration System (BDS) comprises an electronics module, a gas supply module, and the incubator module housing the rotating wall vessel and its support systems.

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STS-135 crew members inspect tools they will use in space during the STS-135 Crew Equipment Interface Test at the Kennedy Space Center on Friday, April 8, 2011, in Florida.

The Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft departs from the International Space Station Zvezda Service Module and heads toward a landing near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Nov. 11, 2013 (Kazakh time).

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An Atlas launch vehicle lifts off with the Mercury spacecraft Sigma 7 atop with astronaut Walter M. Schirra Jr. aboard.

ER-2 tail number 806, is one of two Airborne Science ER-2s used as science platforms by Dryden.

Mudpots and hot springs color the terrain in northwestern Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Exterior, Richard Sheppard Arnold U.S Post Office and Courthouse in Little Rock, Arkansas (2010) by Carol M. Highsmith. Original image from Library of Congress.

A farmer kicks up dust as he readies the ground for planting near Bristol in Prowers County, Colorado. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Shellfish traps in Wanchese, an old fishing port on Roanoke Island in North Carolina's Outer Banks. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

The Expedition 32 crew onboard the International Space Station, flying an altitude of approximately 240 miles, recorded a series of images of Aurora Australis, also known as the Southern Lights, on July 15th, 2012.

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A skiff from Freedom Star, one of NASA's solid rocket booster retrieval ships, helped usher a spent shuttle booster through the shallow waters of the locks at Port Canaveral, Fla.

Space shuttle Atlantis, attached to its bright-orange external fuel tank and twin solid rocket boosters on Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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Horse in the training, racing, and polo grounds section of Aiken, South Carolina. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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The flags of the countries representing the crew members of Expedition 28 are seen here at the Russian Mission Control Center in Korolev, Russia on June 10, 2011.

While attached on the end of the Canadarm2, Dextre, the Canadian Space Agency’s robotic “handyman”, is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 26 crew member aboard the International Space Station. Feb 3rd, 2011.

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NASA Dryden's two T-38A mission support aircraft fly in tight formation, Sept 26th, 2007.

Crew members of the U.S. Navy Carrier Champlain cheer and take pictures of the arrival of the first Project Mercury pilot.

A close-up view of the surgical band saw, a surgical tool in the therapeutic kit of the Inflight Medical Support System aboard the Skylab 1 & 2 space station cluster now in Earth orbit.

High up in the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, an overhead crane has lowered the final work platform, A north, into place for installation in High Bay 3.

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The fairing acoustic protection (FAP) system lines the inside of the Atlas V payload fairing for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission.

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Space shuttle Atlantis and its four-member STS-135 crew head toward Earth orbit and rendezvous with the International Space Station, 8 July 2011.

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Tomato plants are growing under red and blue LED lights in a growth chamber inside a laboratory at the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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Aerial view of Washington, D.C. in the 80s. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Art made of "code" named Kryptos sits on the grounds of the C.I.A. Headquarters in Virginia. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Details from the million dollar courthouse, the Theodore Levin United States Courthouse, Detroit Federal Building, Detroit, Michigan (2010) by Carol M. Highsmith. Original image from Library of Congress.

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USS Texas, the second ship of the United States Navy named in honor of the U.S. state of Texas. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Family Day on the grounds of the Alabama River Pulp Company. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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DSCOVR (2015).

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Common tern chick seeks shelter on the beach

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Texas flag, painted on boarded-up window in Brownwood, the seat of Brown County in Central Texas. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Sunset through the trees in Rougemont, near Durham, North Carolina. Old Mammoth Road. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-S (GOES-S) will be loaded into a U.S. Air Force C-5M Super Galaxy cargo aircraft and flown to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the STS-133 payload canister is lifted into the rotating service structure on Launch Pad 39A. The payload then will be moved into space shuttle Discovery's payload bay.

Shooting like a roman candle into Florida's blue sky, Space Shuttle Discovery kicks off the Fourth of July fireworks with its own fiery display and makes history with the first ever launch on Independence Day.

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The United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket with the Soil Moisture Active Passive satellite aboard, at the Space Launch Complex 2 at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.

Earth observation of North America tweeted out to social media fans of NASA astronaut Terry Virts who was on a 6 month Expedition of the International Space Station. Feb 22th, 2015.

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NASA's Ikhana unmanned aircraft cruises over California during the Western States Fire Mission with its thermal-infared sensor pod under its left wing.

Discovery lifts off from Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida beginning its final flight, the STS-133 mission, to the International Space Station, Feb 24.

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Space shuttle Atlantis, attached to its bright-orange external fuel tank and twin solid rocket boosters on Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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The STS-134 crew flies over the Shuttle Landing Facility (SLF) in T-38 jets at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Tuesday, April 26th, 2011.

Testing autonomous software for AARD program using a NASA F/A-18 #845 following a chartered Sabreliner, June 27th, 2006.

A United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket launches with the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 satellite onboard from Space Launch Complex 2 at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.

A Boeing Delta II rocket is framed between the ghostly silhouettes of two press photographers as it launches Deep Space 1 on its mission from Launch Complex 17A.

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A mixed herd of wild and domesticated horses frolics on the Ladder Livestock ranch, at the Wyoming-Colorado border. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Flophouse of about thirty-seven beds at fifty cents each, constantly crowded with construction workers sleeping in several shifts. Some of them had flu, Alexandria, Louisiana (1940).

Discovery lifts off from Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida beginning its final flight, the STS-133 mission, to the International Space Station, Feb 24.

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A Boeing Delta II expendable launch vehicle lifts off with NASA's Mars Climate Orbiter on Dec. 11, 1998, from Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral Air Station.

A view of lower Manhattan a month before 9/11. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Work began on March 11, 2010 to replace a set of elevation bearings on the giant Mars antenna at NASA's Deep Space Network complex in Goldstone, Calif.

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Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., pilot for the Gemini-12 spaceflight, prepares to take a rest position during underwater zero-gravity training. Oct 29th, 1966.

Discovery lifts off from Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida beginning its final flight, the STS-133 mission, to the International Space Station, Feb 24.

An expanse of ocean is seen on the horizon as Freedom Star, one of NASA's solid rocket booster retrieval ships, set sail to be in position in the Atlantic ocean to recover the spent boosters after space shuttle Discovery's STS-133 launch.

Viewed from the Banana River Viewing Site at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, space shuttle Discovery arcs through a cloud-brushed sky lighted by the trail of fire after launch on the STS-128 mission.

Deer in the tall grass below Devil's Tower National Monument in Crook County, Wyoming. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

As dusk approaches, balloons land at the National Balloon Classic, a hot air balloon exhibition in Indianola, Iowa, a town near the state capital of Des Moines. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Bayou La Batre is a fishing village with a seafood-processing harbor for fishing boats and shrimp boats. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Crew Dragon Interior (2015).

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DSCOVR (2015).

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