Vermot de Pas: NASA PHOTOGRAPHS - HISTORY OF THE CONQUEST OF SPACE, 160182, Paris

Space shuttle liftoff.

LARGE FORMAT. Spectacular observation of a hurricane from space shuttle ATLANTIS (Mission STS-43).

LARGE FORMAT. Typhoon Yuri, Pacific Ocean November 1991.

A beautiful photographic painting depicting the nighttime liftoff of the space shuttle ATLANTIS (STS-44) on November 24, 1991.

Perfect view of the lift-off of the space shuttle ATLANTIS (Mission STS-44).

A superb lift-off by the space shuttle ATLANTIS (Mission STS-132).

Perfect liftoff of the space shuttle ATLANTIS (Mission STS-46) on July 31, 1992.

superb and rare image of the space shuttle DISCOVERY (Mission STS-51) taken from an IMAX camera mounted on the SPAS satellite.

Space shuttle COLUMBIA (Mission STS-55) rolls to launch pad 39A at CAP CANAVERAL before being ready to depart on its new mission, including the SPACELAB 2 space laboratory.

Exceptional photographic painting of a beautiful liftoff of the space shuttle Endeavour (STS-57) on June 21, 1993 from Cape Canaveral.

LARGE FORMAT. Space Shuttle DISCOVERY (Mission STS-64).

Nice ground view of the huge orbiter DISCOVERY (Mission STS-60) having just landed on the Kennedy Space Center runway.

LARGE FORMAT. An incredible Space Circus act is performed here by astronauts Carl J.

Spectacular view of the space shuttle ATLANTIS (Mission STS-71) docking for the 1st time with the Russian space station MIR. NASA and the Russian space agency kicked off a new era of international space cooperation in June 1995, when the space shuttle Atl

Space shuttle Discovery's close takeoff.

Superb and perfect night takeoff of the American Space Shuttle from the Kennedy Space Center.

After being dropped into space by space shuttle Endeavour's (Mission STS-069), the Wake Shield Facility (WSF) floats above a perfectly blue globe, with the coast of Somalia clearly visible.

LARGE FORMAT. Recomposition of the planet Mars from photographs taken by the Viking Orbiter 1 probe in 1979 "MARS ORTHOGRAPHIC VIEW".

Earth observation from Space Shuttle Columbia (Mission STS-80). Space shuttle Columbia astronauts captured the spectacular image of cyclone Daniella in the southern hemisphere as it approached the coast of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean.

Astronaut Winston E. Scott crosses the payload bay of space shuttle Endeavour (Mission STS-072), the blue planet floating above him and the orbiter.

Space shuttle ENDEAVOUR's braking parachute (Mission STS-72) is deployed as the shuttle touches down during this 3rd night landing for a space shuttle.

Fantastic night landing of Space Shuttle ATLANTIS (Mission STS-101) at Kenned Space Center, Florida. This is the 14th night landing of the space shuttle and the 98th space flight of the shuttle's space program.

Superb early-morning liftoff of space shuttle Endeavour (Mission STS-77).

Night landing of space shuttle Endeavour (Mission STS-72). The elegant design of the rear engine nozzles is clearly visible, still hot from the combustion required to ignite them on re-entry into the Orbiter's atmosphere.

A perfect rear view of space shuttle Endeavour (Mission STS-77) during its landing at the Kennedy Space Center on May 29, 1996.