Portal:Spaceflight/Selected picture

This is the selected picture subpage of the Spaceflight Portal. This page contains an archive of past, present and future selected pictures. This is the selected picture subpage of the Human spaceflight Portal. This page contains an archive of past, present and future selected pictures.

Usage

The layout used to format these sub-pages is at Portal:Spaceflight/Selected picture/Layout

1. Add a new selected article to the next available subpage.
2. Update "max=" to new total for its {{Random portal component}} on the main page.

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Selected picture 1

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A timed exposure of Space Shuttle Columbia on launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Centre in preparation for her maiden flight, STS-1. To the left of the Shuttle are the fixed and the rotating service structures.

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The Lunar Module of the Apollo 16 on the lunar surface.

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A close-up view of the unpiloted Japanese H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV) in the grasp of the International Space Station's robotic Canadarm2. The crew of Expedition 20 used the station's robotic arm to grab the cargo craft and attach it to the Earth-facing port of the Harmony node. Photo taken in September 2009.

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Shenzhou 5 was the first Chinese manned spaceflight, and it was launched atop a Long March 2F carrier rocket.

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The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) as seen from the departing Space Shuttle Atlantis on mission STS-125. The HST was launched April 1990 aboard Space Shuttle Discovery. The photo was taken in May 2009.

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Buzz Aldrin's bootprint on the lunar surface during Apollo 11.

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NASA image of Pioneer 10's famed Pioneer plaque, a pictorial message to any extraterrestrial being that may intercept the probe. It features a design engraved into a gold-anodized aluminum plate, 152 by 229 millimeters (6 by 9 inches), attached to the spacecraft's antenna support struts to help shield it from erosion by interstellar dust.

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Space Shuttle Columbia launches on its 23rd mission, STS-78, on June 20, 1996.

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Progress M-61 seen from the International Space Station prior to docking in August 2007

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The first Hermes A-1 test rocket, fired 60 years ago at White Sands Proving Ground on May 1, 1950.

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The Skylon is a British design proposal for a completely reusable single-stage to orbit spaceplane.

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Nominations

Feel free to add any featured or good articles to the list above. You can also nominate other articles relating to Human spaceflight here.

Current

June 2013

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Archive

For older selected pictures, please see the Archive, for Space exploration portal selected articles, see this archive

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