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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.

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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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.

Exterior, new addition, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Fargo, North Dakota (2010) by Carol M. Highsmith. Original image from Library of Congress.

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A thriving North Carolina tobacco field. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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An oceangoing container ship plies the busy Savannah River in Savannah, Georgia. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Bull elk in Yellowstone National Park, in the northwest corner of the western state of Wyoming. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

This boat on the Portsmouth, New Hampshire, docks is loaded with buoys used to identify the location of lobster traps. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) was airborne for almost two hours during its first check flight at Waco, Texas on April 26, 2007.

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The drag chute is deployed as the space shuttle Atlantis lands on July 21, 2011 at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

In this image, taken by NASA's Terra spacecraft, six marine clusters represent the main diversity of coral reefs and associated ecosystems in the French Pacific Ocean archipelago of New Caledonia.

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The Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 22 crew member on the International Space Station during the relocation of the Soyuz from the Zvezda Service Module’s aft port to the Poisk module.

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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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This picture of the space shuttle Atlantis was photographed from the International Space Station as the orbiting complex and the shuttle performed their relative separation in the early hours of July 19, 2011.

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he SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket makes its way to the pad at Space Launch Complex-40 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

International Space Station’s Canadarm2 grapples the unpiloted Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV-3) as it approaches the station. July 27th, 2012.

Light Microscopy Microscope Experiment. The particles in the tube glow orange because they have been fluorescently tagged with a dye that reacts to green laser lights to allow construction of a 3D image point by point.

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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.

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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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.

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.

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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.

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.

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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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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A tug boat pulls the Pegasus Barge carrying the Space Shuttle Program's last external fuel tank, ET-122, from NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans toward Gulfport, La.

An American flag flaps proudly in the wind in front of space shuttle Atlantis on the Shuttle Landing Facility's Runway 15 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket vents liquid oxygen propellant vapors during fueling for the lift off of NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite.

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Atlantic City (Maryland) at Dusk. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Infrared view of a forest of trees in Montana. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress collection.

Road through Smugglers' Notch, a narrow mountain pass surrounded by high bluffs in Lamoille County, Vermont. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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With more than 23 times the power output of the Hoover Dam, NASA’s Ares I-X test rocket soars into blue skies above Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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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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Orbital Sciences L-1011 carrier aircraft carrying IRIS solar observatory takes off from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., Aug. 7, 2017.

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The Orbiter 101 "Enterprise" separates from the NASA 747 carrier aircraft S77-28931 to begin its first "tailcone-off" unpowered flight over desert and mountains of Southern California. Oct 12th 1977.

NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) was airborne for almost two hours during its first check flight at Waco, Texas on April 26, 2007.

Air Force HC-130 rescue tanker flies over the target area off Florida's central east coast during a rescue training exercise, known as Mode VIII.

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