Apollo 11's launch.
On July 16, 1969, exactly 40 years ago, the Saturn V rocket with the Apollo 11 mission on board was launched from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The mission would have brought the man on the Moon for the first time..
Kepler Mission: A search for habitable planets.
March 7, 2009.
Each rectangle indicates the specific region of the sky covered by each CCD element of the Kepler photometer. There are a total of 42 CCD elements in pairs, each pair comprising a square.