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An circular antenna attached to a small rectangular box with various dials.

Bendix Radio Direction Finder

Disk view of the Sun featuring a prominence of floating gas above the lower half of the Sun. Phages are indicated by lighter colors and are visible mostly on the left half.

The Sun - November 11, 2012

Radio transmitter with no cover, exposing electrical wiring on the side

Gee Receiver

Felix Baumgartner, a pilot wearing a white high-altitude suit, jumps from near space as part of a flight test.

Red Bull Stratos - Mission Jump

USAF colonel (ret.) Joe Kittinger and Felix Baumgartner pose together at a press conference.

USAF colonel (ret.) Joe Kittinger and Felix Baumgartner

Venus as a half-spherical entity visible from the Earth during daytime hours.

Venus - Aug 18, 2012

A shadow of a rover is seen in this image. A mountain is in the distance.

Mars' Mount Sharp

A Smokey Bear plush floats in zero gravity on board the International Space Station.

Smokey Bear Aboard the International Space Station

Purple disk of the Sun's chromosphere highling multiple sunspots which appear as black dots and phages which appear as lighter areas compared to the rest of the disk.

Sun - Aug 2, 2012

Disk view of the Sun's chromosphere. The left side of the disk features a dark line of gases floating above the Sun's surface known as a filament turn into a prominence as it moves beyond the end of the disk. Multiple sunspots, highlighted as dark marks, and phages, lighter sections, are found throughout the disk.

Sun - Aug 1, 2012

Partial disk view of the Sun which features two prominences of gases rising off the edge of the disk, two darker lines known as filaments of gases rising from the Sun in the middle of the disk, and multiple sunspots and sunspot clusters.

Sun - July 28, 2012

Partial disk view of the Sun's chromosphere, which focuses on one prominence rising from the Sun's surface.

Prominence on the Sun - July 26, 2012

Disk view of the sun with a large prominence of floating gases on the upper right quadrant of the disk and a phage highlighted in yellow in the bottom center half.

Sun - July 25, 2012

Felix Baumgartner, a pilot wearing high-altitude gear, prepares to free fall twenty nine thousand meters above sea level.

Red Bull Stratos - Manned Flight Two: Felix Baumgartner

Disk view of the Sun with one visible sunspot cluster, highlighted in a yellow colour, and small prominences floating off the Sun across the bottom half of the visible Sun.

The Sun - July 19, 2012

Partial disk view of the Sun focusing on a solar flare, highlighted in yellow with nearby black darkspots, visible from an image of the chromosphere of the Sun.

A Solar Flare on July 12, 2012