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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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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.

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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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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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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An oceangoing container ship plies the busy Savannah River in Savannah, Georgia. 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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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.

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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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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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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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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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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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 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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Sunset scene in rural Tom Green County, Texas, northeast of San Angelo. 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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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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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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.

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

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

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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.

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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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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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.

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.

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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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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

Infrared view of a forest of trees in Montana. 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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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.

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

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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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.

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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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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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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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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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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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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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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The exhaust plume from space shuttle Atlantis is seen as it launches from pad 39A on Friday, July 8, 2011, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel

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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.

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.

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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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.

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.

Fat and sassy prairie dogs on the grounds of Devil's Tower National Monument in Crook County, Wyoming. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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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.

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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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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At NASA’s Protective Services Training Academy at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a member of the Emergency Response Team, or tosses a flash bang diversionary device during a specialized training simulation as a helicopter hovers above.

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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.

Murals, Louisville Murals-Post Office Rail Car, by Frank Weathers Long at the Gene Snyder U.S Courthouse & Custom House, Louisville, Kentucky (2011) by Carol M. Highsmith. Original image from Library of Congress.

Interior tools and milling equipment at the Bale Grist Mill, now a California Historic Park. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

An oceangoing container ship plies the busy Savannah River in Savannah, Georgia. 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.

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.

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