NASA: Marking 60 years of space exploration
NASA's Curiosity rover on the surface of Mars. The rover's mission was extended after surviving longer than expected on the difficult Martian terrain.
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Apollo 9 astronaut Dave Scott emerges from a hatch on a spacewalk mission.
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Buzz Aldrin took this image of his own foot on the lunar surface.
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The Cassini spacecraft took this image of Jupiter's moon Io.
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Pioneers: Astronaut Ed White one of the early Gemini missions.
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Blue marble: This image of the earth was taken by the Apollo 17 crew on the way to the moon.
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Handling moonrock: Apollo 11 Command Module pilot Michael Collins inspects NASA's Lunar Receiving Laboratory at the Manned Spacecraft Centre in Houston.
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