This is a gallery of previous selected images that were featured on Portal:Space exploration.
Preflight image of the plaque left behind on the Moon by the Apollo 11 mission
Apollo 10 Saturn V S-IC First Stage
Soyuz spacecraft photographed from the Apollo spacecraft on the ASTP mission.
Launching of the NASA Space Shuttle Columbia on STS-1 in April 1981
The photo shows the "energy flash" when a projectile launched at speeds up to 17,000 miles an hour impacts a solid surface at the Hypervelocity Ballistic Range at NASA's Ames Research Center.
The Soyuz spacecraft and launch vehicle
NASA Image of the Pioneer plaque.