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Moments That Made Us

Firsts and turning points.

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Earthrise. Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders photographs the Earth rising over the Moon, the first time people saw home from another world.

No. 009 · Firsts

Earthrise

Photographed by Bill Anders

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First American Spacewalk. Ed White steps out of Gemini 4 and floats above the Earth for 23 minutes, tethered by a gold-wrapped cord.

No. 014 · Firsts

First American Spacewalk

Source: NASA

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The Blue Marble. On the way to the Moon, the Apollo 17 crew takes the first photo of the whole, fully lit Earth.

No. 010 · Firsts

The Blue Marble

Photographed by Harrison Schmitt

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The Wright Flyer lifts off at Kill Devil Hills on December 17, 1903, Orville at the controls and Wilbur running alongside. Photograph by John T. Daniels.

No. 004 · Great Moments

First Flight

Photographed by John T. Daniels

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Black-and-white portrait of Abraham Lincoln by Alexander Gardner, Washington, D.C., November 8, 1863.

No. 001 · Great Speeches

The Gettysburg Address

Photographed by Alexander Gardner

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Andrew J. Russell’s photograph of the golden spike ceremony at Promontory Summit, May 10, 1869, with two locomotives and the crews of the Central Pacific and Union Pacific.

No. 006 · Great Moments

The Golden Spike

Photographed by Andrew J. Russell

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The Salute at Hadley Rille. Jim Irwin salutes the flag beside the first car ever driven on the Moon, the Lunar Roving Vehicle.

No. 013 · Firsts

The Salute at Hadley Rille

Source: NASA

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The Statue of Liberty assembled in a Paris courtyard in 1883, surrounded by scaffolding and workshops. Photograph by Albert Fernique.

No. 007 · Great Moments

The Statue of Liberty

Photographed by Albert Fernique

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"Hello, Chicago". Alexander Graham Bell places the first call on the new long-distance line from New York to Chicago.

No. 021 · Firsts

"Hello, Chicago"

Source: Library of Congress

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Full Victory, Nothing Else. The night before D-Day, General Eisenhower talks with paratroopers of the 101st Airborne; pairs with the Order of the Day text.

No. 031 · Great Speeches

Full Victory, Nothing Else

Source: U.S. Army

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Into the Jaws of Death. Soldiers wade toward Omaha Beach on D-Day; pairs with Eisenhower's Order of the Day ("The eyes of the world are upon you").

No. 030 · Great Speeches

Into the Jaws of Death

Photographed by Robert F. Sargent

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Kissing the War Goodbye. Times Square erupts at the news that World War II is over; Navy photographer Victor Jorgensen catches the kiss.

No. 029 · Firsts

Kissing the War Goodbye

Photographed by Victor Jorgensen

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Liberty Rises on Bedloe's Island. The Statue of Liberty is put back together piece by piece in New York Harbor before its unveiling on Oct 28, 1886.

No. 023 · Firsts

Liberty Rises on Bedloe's Island

Source: Library of Congress

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Lincoln at Antietam. Lincoln meets General McClellan in his tent on the battlefield, two weeks after the bloodiest day in American history.

No. 050 · Presidents

Lincoln at Antietam

Source: Library of Congress

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Old Glory on the Moon. Buzz Aldrin salutes the American flag he and Neil Armstrong planted at Tranquility Base.

No. 012 · Firsts

Old Glory on the Moon

Source: NASA

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One Small Step: The Bootprint. Buzz Aldrin photographs his own bootprint in the lunar dust, a mark that will last for millions of years.

No. 011 · Firsts

One Small Step: The Bootprint

Photographed by Buzz Aldrin

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Sally Ride, STS-7. Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, at work on the Challenger flight deck.

No. 018 · Firsts

Sally Ride, STS-7

Source: NASA

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The Great East River Bridge. Currier & Ives celebrate the Brooklyn Bridge, the longest suspension bridge in the world when it opened in May 1883.

No. 022 · Firsts

The Great East River Bridge

Illustrated by Currier & Ives

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We Can Do It!. J. Howard Miller's wartime factory poster, later adopted as the face of the women who built America's arsenal.

No. 026 · Famous Americans

We Can Do It!

Illustrated by J. Howard Miller

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Women Who Built the Bombers. Alfred Palmer's color photo of women machining parts at Douglas Aircraft in Long Beach, California.

No. 027 · Famous Americans

Women Who Built the Bombers

Photographed by Alfred T. Palmer

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Buzz Aldrin on the Moon, July 20, 1969, photographed by Neil Armstrong. Armstrong and the lunar module are reflected in Aldrin’s visor.

No. 008 · Great Moments

Apollo 11

Photographed by Neil Armstrong

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Building the Panama Canal. A bird's-eye view of the giant Gatun Locks, the year before the first ship crossed from the Atlantic to the Pacific in August 1914.

No. 024 · Firsts

Building the Panama Canal

Source: Library of Congress

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Edison and the Phonograph. Thomas Edison with his phonograph, the first machine that could record and play back the human voice.

No. 020 · Firsts

Edison and the Phonograph

Photographed by Levin C. Handy

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Color portrait of President John F. Kennedy in the Oval Office, photographed by Cecil Stoughton on July 11, 1963.

No. 002 · Great Speeches

The Inaugural Address

Photographed by Cecil Stoughton

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The Wright Flyer at Fort Myer. Orville Wright flies for the U.S. Army at Fort Myer, Virginia, in the trials that produced the world's first military airplane.

No. 019 · Firsts

The Wright Flyer at Fort Myer

Source: NASA Great Images (GRIN) copy

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