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Nurses at Floating hospital (ca. 1910–1915).

NASA's SOFIA airborne observatory lands at Edwards AFB.

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India and Ceylon as seen from the orbiting Gemini-11 spacecraft.

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The Washinton Monument in Washington, D.C. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Russian Search and Rescue teams deploy by helicopter from Karaganda, Kazakhstan.

An F/A-18 Super Hornet demonstrates its flying capabilities.

A Russian search and rescue helicopter flies over the burning Kazakh steppe.

The Soyuz rocket and Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft at Building 112 on the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Baikonur, Kazakhstan.

Water Type Muffler Test of aircraft at NASA Langley Research Center. May 13th, 1957.

Hospital at Blackwell's Island.

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The Soyuz rocket is rolled out to the launch pad by train at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

The space shuttle Atlantis taken from approximately 170 feet away by astronaut Shannon W. Lucid.

The Russian Mir Space Station is backdropped over a storm in the Roaring 40's near Heard Island in the south Indian Ocean.

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Capitol Hill in spring. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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A Navy frogman leaps from a recovery helicopter into the water to assist in the Gemini-12 recovery operations.

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X-15A-2 in flight. First flight with dummy ramjet attached, at 8 May 1967.

The SpaceX Dragon craft is poised and ready to be released from the International Space Station on May 21st, 2015.

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Hurricane Matthew. This is a visible image of Major Hurricane Matthew taken from NASA's Terra satellite on Oct. 7 at 12 p.m.

The Agena Target Docking Vehicle at a distance of approximately 80 feet from the Gemini-11 spacecraft.

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Copper fresnel mandrel diamond cut completion in bldg 4487.

Jefferson Memorial at dusk. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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The Space Shuttle Discovery soars from Launch Pad 39A Aug. 7 on the 11-day STS-85 mission.

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Sunrise as viewed from the International Space Station Nov. 17, 2015.

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An HH-60G helicopter flies overhead of a rescue boat during a training exercise, known as Mode VIII.

The boosters of the Soyuz rocket are seen as the Soyuz TMA-14 spacecraft and boosters are assembled Monday, March 23, 2009 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

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The Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft is seen as it lands with Expedition 50 near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, April 10, 2017.

An oil refinery in Groves, Texas. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

United States Supreme Court Building. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Tobacco Barns in Suffield, Connecticut. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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The Soyuz MS-07 rocket is seen on the launch pad at sunrise on Dec. 17, 2017 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

Controlled Impact Demonstration instrumented test dummies installed in plane.

Full views of Mir Space Station after undocking during flyaround.

Provident Hospital, one of the few hospitals for African Americans (1941).

A refinery in Pascagoula, Mississippi. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Dulles Airport. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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The White House at dusk. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Utah's Valley of the Gods. Old Mammoth Road. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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View just before sunrise over the Arctic Ocean during IceBridge's transit flight from Fairbanks to Thule.

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This anaglyph view of 'Souffle,' to the left of 'Yogi,' was produced by NASA's Mars Pathfinder's Imager camera. July 3rd,1998.

Tomato plants are growing inside a laboratory at the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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The Orbital Sciences Corporation Antares rocket, Oct. 27, 2014, at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.

View of the launch of the Little Joe-5B spacecraft from Wallops Island on April 28, 1961.

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The Tin Family, Enchanted Highway, Regent, North Dakota (2005) by Carol M. Highsmith. Original image from Library of Congress.

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A bald eagle is perched in a tree near the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Mount Shasta. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Astronaut Eugene A. Cernan, pilot of the Gemini-9A spaceflight, is pictured outside of the spacecraft during his extravehicular activity (EVA).

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Payload bay activity during first EVA of STS-72 mission. Jan 15th, 1996.

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ICESCAPE scientists watched from the deck of the Healy as it cut a path through thick multiyear ice on July 6, 2011.

The Soyuz TMA-11M rocket is seen as it is rolled out to the launch pad by train at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

NASA astronaut Terry Virts captured this beautiful sunset on board the International Space Station on Nov. 25, 2014.

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Space Shuttle Discovery encased in the Mate-Demate Device at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards, California.

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The launch gantry is rolled back to reveal the United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.

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The space shuttle Discovery suspended from a sling held by two cranes.

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Pheasants on the Prairie, Enchanted Highway, Regent, North Dakota (2005) by Carol M. Highsmith. Original image from Library of Congress.

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The Washington Monument at night. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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On the top deck of the USS San Diego, U.S. Navy personnel monitor a helicopter landing after an Orion underway recovery test.

The Soyuz TMA-21 spacecraft is seen as it lands with Expedition 28 in a remote area outside of the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, Sept. 16, 2011.

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The boosters of the Soyuz rocket are seen as the Soyuz TMA-14 spacecraft and boosters are assembled Monday, March 23, 2009 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

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Beam Wave Guide antennas at Goldstone, known as the Beam Waveguide Cluster.

The launch of the Mercury-Redstone 3 spacecraft from Cape Canaveral on a suborbital mission, 5 May 1961.

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F-18 Systems Research Aircraft (SRA) in flight, October 3rd, 1997.

Interior of the 20-foot diameter vacuum tank at the NASA Lewis Research Center’s Electric Propulsion Laboratory.

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Earth’s thin line of atmosphere and a starry sky just off the port wing of the docked space shuttle Endeavour are featured in this image, 28 May 2011.

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The Virgin Atlantic Airways GlobalFlyer aircraft sails across the sky near NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Shuttle Landing Facility.

Sunrise casts an orange glow over the wooded landscape surrounding NASA's Kennedy Space Center.

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The mobile launcher platform with space shuttle Endeavour on top comes to rest on Launch Pad 39A.

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Moon crossing in front of its view of the sun captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) on Jan 30th, 2014.

Mount Rushmore. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Industrial area in Bayonne, New Jersey. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

"Texas" sign on an old building in Stanton, Texas. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Tobacco Barns in Windsor, Connecticut. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Penguin at the Mystic Aquarium, Inc. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Female nude photography, Nude Viewed from the Back (ca. 1854) by Eugène Durieu.

DC-8 NASA 717 in flight over San Francisco, Ca., 1991-05-29.

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Mercury-Atlas 6 "Friendship 7" spacecraft retrieved from the Atlantic Ocean. Mar 16th, 1962.

CV-990 (NASA-712) Galileo II aircraft in flight over the San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge.

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Dulles airport. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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EC66-01426 F-104N #812 Take off 9/1/66.

Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility - aircraft fleet on ramp.

Following the postponement on Nov. 14, 2017, the countdown is again underway for the liftoff of the Joint Polar Satellite System-1 spacecraft.

NASA Researcher Andy Stofan views a small-scale tank built to study the sloshing characteristics of liquid hydrogen at NASA.

A-5A Vigilante arrived from the Naval Air Test Center, Patuxent River, MD, on December 19, 1962.

Silhouette of a barn near Bruce. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Old Gasoline Pump in rural Virginia. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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The White House, Washington Monument, and Jefferson Memorial. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Field in Plains, Georgia. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Bruce M. Van Sickle Federal Building, Minot, North Dakota (2014) by Carol M. Highsmith. Original image from Library of Congress.

NASA's highly modified F-15A (Serial #71-0287).

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Camera view from under the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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Three view art of the North American X-15.

Lincoln Memorial, Washington Monument and the United States Capitol. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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View from the International Space Station shows the Soyuz TMA-12M spacecraft shortly before docking of the two orbiting vehicles. March 27th, 2014.

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The barren Nevada desert near Las Vegas. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Carroll House, a hotel in Fullerton, North Dakota (1980-2006) by Carol M. Highsmith. Original image from Library of Congress.

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Utah's Zion National Park. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Column Detail, U.S. Treasury Building, Washington. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Hallway of the Chicago Federal Center. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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The mockup Orion crew exploration vehicle floats in the water at the Trident Basin at Port Canaveral, Fla. Apr 8th, 2009.

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The Soyuz TMA-20M spacecraft is seen as it lands with Expedition 48 crew members near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, Sept. 7, 2016.

Launching of the Mercury-Redstone 3 from Cape Canaveral on astronaut Alan B. Shepard's suborbital mission, 5 May 1961.

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