Programme Collection (#34)

Making a TV Programme
Making a programme for Southern Television inside a studio. Date: 1960s

Jp Sousa Farewell Tour
JOHN PHILIP SOUSA nicknamed The March King, American bandmaster and composer: programme for his farewell tour of Britain. Date: 1854 - 1932

Aviation Week 1910
Programme cover for the Grande Semaine d Aviation de la Champagne, July 1910 (Great Aviation Week) featuring aircraft over Reims cathedral Date: 1910

Tivoli Music Hall / 1894
The cover of a programme for the music hall bill to celebrate the third anniversary of the Tivoli Theatre on The Strand, London. Date: 3 July 1894

Alhambra Theatre / 1892
The cover of a programme for the Alhambra theatre, London. The bill featured comics, jugglers, singers, and ballet. Date: 1892

Quagga-like zebra

Soyuz-TM 12 space crew. The crew of Soyuz-TM 12, from left to right, was: Sergei Krikalev, Anatloi Artsebarski and Helen Sharman. Soyuz-TM 12 was launched on 18 May 1991

Jet power version of Buran, Russian space shuttle
Buran space shuttle training aircraft. This full-sized mock-up of the Russian Buran space shuttle was used to conduct approach and landing training for its pilots

Descent module of Yuri Gagarin
Yuri Gagarins descent module, known as Charik or " little ball", on April 12, 1961, at the end of the first manned spaceflight

Crew of the Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 35
The crew of Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 35 in training at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre before their flight on 9 April 1980. Both Valeri Ryumin (left) and Leonid Popov are space veterans

Salyut 1 space station, artwork
Salyut 1 space station. Artwork of the Soyuz 11 spacecraft (upper left) docking with the Salyut 1 space station (right) in Earth orbit on 7 June 1971

Soviet spacecrat Vostok 6 on launchpad
Soviet spacecraft Vostok 6 on the launchpad at Baikonur cosmodrome on 16th June 1963. Vostok 6 was piloted by the first woman to fly in space, Valentina Tereshkova

Russian shuttle Buran on launch pad at night
The first Russian space shuttle, Buran, seen at night on its launch-pad. Buran was the first of five Russian shuttle vehicles

Salyut-7 with Soyuz T-14 in orbit
Salyut-7 and Soyuz T-14 (left end) in orbit, seen from the departing Soyuz T-13 spacecraft. Salyut- 7 was launched on 19 April 1982

A-type rocket carrying a Vostok manned spacecraft
View of an A-type rocket, carrying a Vostok manned spacecraft, being prepared for launch at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in central Asia

Cosmonaut training, Soyuz TMA-8 crew. Commander Pavel Vinogradov training in a spacesuit at Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazahkstan, in preparation for the Soyuz TMA-8 mission

Launch of the Soviet spacecraft Vostok 1

Yuri Gagarin visiting Budapest, Hungary in 1961
Yuri Gagarin. View of Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, visiting Budapest, Hungary, in 1961. Gagarin made his flight in the Vostok 1 spacecraft on April 12, 1961

Second animals in space: Soviet space dogs
Space animals. Scientist holds up Strelka (left) and Belka, the dogs on board the Soviet Korabl- Sputnik 2 (also called Sputnik 5), the second spacecraft to carry animals into orbit

Centrifuge used to train Russian cosmonauts
Human centrifuge. TsF-18 centrifuge used to train cosmonauts at Star City (Zvezdny Gorodok), Russia, for manned missions. The centrifuge simulates the acceleration felt by cosmonauts in spaceflight

Soyuz TMA-11 space crew. The crew of Soyuz TMA 11 was made up of Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor (top), Peggy Whitson (bottom) and Yuri Malenchenko (not seen)

Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova

Integration of Buran and Energia
The Russian Space Shuttle Buran, being integrated with its Energia launcher. Buran made its only orbital flight on 15 November 1988, an unmanned test mission

Progress 1 spacecraft
Progress-1 transporter docked to a Salyut space station (right), seen at an exhibition. The Progress spacecraft were unmanned supply vehicles for the Soviet space program

Cosmonaut Valery Polyakov, before the launch of the Soyuz TM6 mission to the Mir Space Station. Polyakov launched with two other cosmonauts from Baikonur Cosmodrome

Mir space station in orbit seen from Soyuz
Peace in orbit. The Russian space station Mir ( peace ), seen floating in orbit above the Earth. As is common practice with the space station

Proton rocket & Granat observatory on launch pad
A Soviet Proton rocket, carrying the Granat astrophysical observatory, being installed on the launchpad at Baikonur Cosmodrome, USSR, on 29 November, 1989

Soyuz TMA-11 mission launch, October 2007
Soyuz TMA-11 mission launch. Soyuz TMA-11 rocket lifting off from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, on 10th October 2007 at 13:22 GMT

Soviet cosmonauts during training
Soviet cosmonauts Yuri Romanenko and Alexander Laveikin in training for their record-breaking stay on board the Mir space station

Soyuz TM-7 mission cosmonauts
Soyuz cosmonauts being interviewed after a successful landing. The cosmonauts are, from left to right, Valery Polyakov, Alexander Volkov and Sergei Krikalev

Vostock ejection seat. All of the cosmonauts in the Vostock series of spaceflights used such ejection seats before landing

Rhesus monkeys used in Soviet space research
Space monkeys. Rhesus monkeys sent into space as part of the Russian-American Biocosmos/Bion or Biosputnik space programme

Testing of electrics in SL-4 (Soyuz) launcher
Electrical check being made to an SL-4 first stage, the type used to launch Russian Soyuz spacecraft into orbit. The SL-4 is the most-used model of orbital launcher

Russian shuttle Buran & An-225 carrier flying
Piggy-back flight, Soviet-stlye. An Antonov An-225 cargo aircraft carrying the Buran space shuttle during a test flight. The An-225, called " Mryia" (Ukrainian for dream )

Soviet cosmonauts Yuri Gagarin & Gherman Titov
Soviet cosmonauts Yuri Gagarin (left) & Gherman Titov. Gagarin became the first man to go into space on 12 April 1961. Titov became the third man in space on 6 August 1961

Soviet space shuttle, Buran, on launchpad
The Soviet space shuttle, Buran, mounted on its launch vehicle, Energia, on a launch pad at Baikonur Cosmodrome, USSR. An unmanned Buran was launched on November 15th 1988 for a test flight lasting 3

Cosmonaut training

Soyuz TM-6 crew undergoing weightlessness training
One of the crew of the Soviet spacecraft Soyuz T 6 photographed during a training exercise. The astronaut is working on a mock-up of a spacecraft

Alexei Leonov, Soviet cosmonaut

Astronauts Yuri Gagarin & Valentina Tereshkova
Yuri Gagarin and Valentina Tereshkova, the first man and first woman in space, photographed in 1963. Gagarin made the first manned spaceflight in the Vostok 1 spacecraft on April 12, 1961

Astronaut J-L Chretien leaving TM-6 descent module
French astronaut Jean-Luc Chretien leaving the Soyuz TM-6 descent module after a joint Franco- Soviet mission aboard the Soviet space station Mir

Technician holding two Soviet space dogs
A technician holds Blackie and Breezy, two of the dogs launched into space on Soviet spacecraft

Cosmonauts in training tank at Star City, Russia
Cosmonaut training. Cosmonauts undergoing training in a water tank at Star City, Russia. The large water tank is used to allow training for extravehicular activity (EVA)

Belyayev and Leonov, Soviet cosmonauts
Belyayev and Leonov (right), Soviet cosmonauts, in military uniform. Alexei A. Leonov (born 1934) performed the first ever spacewalk (extravehicular activity, EVA)

Vostok spacecraft launch vehicle
Vostok launch vehicle being assembled at the Le Bourget aerospace show, near Paris, France. In 1961, Vostok 1 was the first spacecraft to carry a man into space

Soyuz TMA-8 mission launch, March 2006. This is the Soyuz TMA-8 mission, the 29th manned flight to the International Space Station (ISS)

Multuple exposure photograph of a Soviet rocket
Multiple exposure photograph of a Soviet rocket at the Baikonur cosmodrome in central Asia

View of cabin of Soviet spacecraft Voskhod-1
The cabin of Voskhod 1, the Soviet three-man spacecraft launched on October 12, 1964, with cosmonauts Vladimir Komarov, Constantin Feoktistov and Boris Yegorov

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