British Antarctic Survey (BAS) research plane landing at the Chilean Research base Frei on King George Island, Antarctica, Polar Regions

Mission Control room at NASA, Houston, Texas, United States of America, North America

NASA Mission Control, Houston, Texas, United States of America, North America

Space Shuttle Columbia Crew

STS-41-C, Solar Maximum Mission Satellite, 1984

Eugene A. Cernan on the Moon, Apollo 17

Harrison H. Schmitt on the Moon, Apollo 17

STS-1, Space Shuttle Columbia Launch, 1981

Mars Science Laboratory Rover Curiosity Lifts-Off

PROBA-3 satellites in orbit, artwork

Sentinel-2 satellite in orbit, artwork

WWII, Enola Gay, Hiroshima Bomb Mission, 1945

British Mission Party, 1945

Space Rider, computer artwork

British Mission Party, 1945

Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko Outbursts

PROBA-3 satellites, artwork

PROBA-3 satellites in orbit, artwork

Sentinel-1B satellite deployment, artwork

Sentinel-2B satellite in Large Space Simulator

WWII, Fat Man, Nagasaki Mission, 1945

Apollo 12 Astronaut, Alan Bean

Mars Curiosity Rover at Mount Sharp

Sunrise over the planet mars orbiting in space with strong flare and shadows coming from a bright sun panoramic

Sunrise over the planet mars orbiting in space with strong flare and shadows coming from a bright sun panoramic

Mars red planet orbiting in space with heavy shadow across the world concept

Mars red planet orbiting in space with heavy shadow across the world concept

Biosphere 2, self-sustaining ecosystem, Oracle, Arizona, USA, North America

Biosphere 2, self-sustaining ecosystem, lodgings of mission's scientists, Oracle, Arizona, USA, North America

Biosphere 2, self-sustaining ecosystem, Oracle, Arizona, USA, North America

Biosphere 2, self-sustaining ecosystem, Oracle, Arizona, USA, North America

Numbering of trout fin samples. Numbering of scale samples for genetic monitoring. Mission preparation must be perfect. Because once in the field, nothing must be missing, not even the pencil: the only pencil capable of writing on the pockets containing the samples. Kerguelen Archipelago.

The barge L'Aventure II drops off a team of scientists on Mayes Island for a week-long ornithological mission. Mayes Island, Gulf of Morbihan. Kerguelen Archipelago.

Preparing a scientific glaciology and geology mission, with the Kerguelen district chief and the head of operations at the French Polar Institute. Kerguelen Archipelago