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This is a gallery of previous selected images that were featured on Portal:Space exploration.

Week 38 2006

Preflight image of the plaque left behind on the Moon by the Apollo 11 mission

Week 39 2006

Apollo 10 Saturn V S-IC First Stage

Week 40 2006

Soyuz spacecraft photographed from the Apollo spacecraft on the ASTP mission.

Week 41 2006

Launching of the NASA Space Shuttle Columbia on STS-1 in April 1981

Week 42 2006

ISS photo taken from shuttle Discovery in August 2005

Week 43 2006

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.

Week 44 2006

The Soyuz spacecraft and launch vehicle

Week 45 2006

NASA Image of the Pioneer plaque.